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Loren Singer Dead: "Parallax View" Author Dies At 86

5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

The New York Times : Loren Singer, whose 1970 conspiracy thriller, "The Parallax View," later made into a movie starring Warren Beatty, was one of the first novels to offer a politically paranoid vision of the United States as a country controlled by ruthless technocrats, died on Saturday in Valhalla, N.Y. He was 86 and lived in Mamaroneck, N.Y. His death was confirmed by his son Andrew. Read the whole story: The New York Times

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