Word: american
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Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American...
...afraid of exploring the peculiar quirks and flaws in the justice's personality. It is with some degree of harshness that Novick relates Holmes' frigid diary entry on the day he was married to his wife Fanny, around the time he was made the sole editor of the American Law Review: "Married. Sole editor...
...exactly this problem--the contradiction between stories told and those omitted--which Herbert Leibowitz poses in his study of American autobiography, Fabricating Lives...
...style is Leibowitz's rationale for this book, then it seems an unfortunate consequence the turgid, academic prose he has chosen to express his own. Between the pages of plot summary, the endless intellectual bragging and the almost repetitive invocations of some nebulous American national "identity," Fabricating Lives gets lost in its own pretentiousness...
...even going to bother picking any American history courses for this fall," said Jenifer J. Curhan '90, a History concentrator. Curhan, who is shopping for a course on the American Revolution, said she could not find one at the College this semester...