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war correspondents

Newspaperman, novelist, playwright, adventurer, Richard Harding Davis was a legend in his own lifetime.

He was the most celebrated journalist of his time before he was thirty, and he moved through the dangers and graces of his era with the daring insouciance of one of his fictional heroes.

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