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Anton Myrer


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Anton Myrer, who died of leukemia in 1996, was a best-selling author whose themes were America's loss of innocence and the use and abuse of power. He is particularly remembered for The Last Convertible (1978), a summation of the American experience during and after World War II, and for Once an Eagle (1968), which traces the life of a regular Army officer and his family from before World War I to Vietnam. Orville Prescott, in The New York Times wrote of Once an Eagle:
 
 
Novels
   Evil Under the Sun (1951)
   The Big War (1959)
   The Violent Shore (1962)
   The Intruder (1965)
   Once An Eagle (1970)
   The Tiger Waits (1973)
   The Last Convertible (1978)
   A Green Desire (1982)
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