Stone came of age in a time of great social upheaval, when the United States sat atop the world order militarily and economically. About this time Stone writes, “I’d have to become harder now, be on my own, not give in to grief or weakness or self-pity.” He was off at boarding school in Pennsylvania in 1962 when he learned that his parents were getting a divorce. He loved his parents, but often found himself caught between them. Stone’s upbringing in New York City was privileged, and emotionally complicated. It was many years before Stone came to know his father, and more beyond that to feel that he had made his father proud. Oliver Stone was an only child, the product of a whirlwind romance between his father, a US Army officer who served under General Dwight Eisenhower, and a French woman of no family standing or wealth.
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