From your reading of Ben Macintyre’s A Spy Among Friends, develop a thesis that defends, refutes, or complicates the assertion that Kim Philby was not a self-serving sociopath but a committed idealist who was sincerely torn between the bonds of friendship and the duties of his idealism.
From your reading of Mark Bowden’s Killing Pablo, develop a thesis that defends, refutes, or complicates the assertion that the Columbian people have significant responsibility for erecting Pablo Escobar into a mythical cult figure with larger than life powers who crippled the very people who worshipped him.
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