He became disillusioned after seeing friends like Jack Reed chewed up and losing friends to the Spanish Civil War and ultimately went to the other side, supporting people like Nixon in his later life. His falling out with Hemingway is legendary. He wrote and painted in his East End Provincetown home until his tranquility was shattered in 1947 when he plowed into the back of a truck in Wareham, Massachusetts instantly killing his wife Kate and costing John his eye. Manhattan Transfer.
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