George Plimpton’s Illegal Fireworks Display
by The Paris Review
Jul 04, 2019
2 minutes
The Paris Review’s founding editor George Plimpton was a man of many enthusiasms, but fireworks were chief among them. His lifelong affair with pyrotechnic explosives began when he served as a demolitions expert in the U.S. Army. He even wrote a book on the subject—Fireworks: A History and. Needless to say, he loved the Fourth of July.
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