Do you guys think America and a sense of American-ness is integral to King's work? A lot of what I'm working on centers around Hearts In Atlantis and how it examines the end of the American dream with the Vietnam war, the wasted potential of that generation. Also it seems to me that King's work gives a sense that America is in some way rotten at the core, through stuff like The Running Man and The Long Walk, the symbolism of The Barrens in IT, the fall of America in The Stand and the dystopian future of The Dark Tower series. Do you guys have any opinions on this?