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Ken Kesey’s Wars: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” at 50

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Ever since it was published 50 years ago critics have described Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as the great nonconformist novel, but Nathaniel Rich writes that the novel’s true message is about the militarization of American society—and the trauma of war.

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