With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

ISBN 0-394-45025-6. Jones was subsequently sentenced to five days in jail (with the sentencing judge recommending that the sentence be served in the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office's work program rather than actually behind bars) to 200 hours of community service and to two years of probation. " While at the Times he gathered material for his book The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era.