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...constructed by Gorlin and Mirvish (the book??s true authors), Eisenstadt is the pundit par excellence—a Washington operative with an inflated sense of self-importance, a political skill set inversely proportional to ego, and a grab bag of talking points in the form of arguments by assertion. His knowledge of international affairs is sketchy, but he is quite sure of America’s historical preeminence within them. His achievements are few, but his sense of self-importance is vast. He is obsessed with image and public perception—the kind...
...exactly is the butt of the Martin Eisenstadt joke? Though it is true that Eisenstadt’s pronouncements are often parodies of neoconservative slogans, the people truly made to look the fool by him were not conservatives at all. Readers might laugh knowingly whilst perusing the book??s numerous examples of important bloggers and newspapers that took Eisenstadt’s extremist rhetoric and ran with it, but in reality this is no laughing matter. The Eisenstadt hoax reveals numerous newspapers that failed to do basic fact-checking and a coterie of liberal bloggers such as those...
Perhaps attempting to compensate aesthetically, Alfred A. Knopf has pulled out all the stops in the book??s physical presentation. Possessing a pleasingly minimalist jacket featuring white letters dissolving into black, “Laura” reproduces on each page of its heavy gray cardstock one of the 125 lined index cards on which Nabokov penciled his story. And each card is perforated along the edges for the ultra-aficionado—who, having exhausted the author’s other collections, can pop out the notes to feverishly arrange and rearrange elements of the plot just...
...list, here's what happened today. In Science A-35: "The Energetic Universe," we heard the professor unleashed his wrath blowtorch-style—that's right, he lit up a blowtorch. We also heard that Professor Steven E. Ozment handed out copies of his book??Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution to those shopping his class. Sure, it's no blowtorch, but getting a book for free instead of doling out hundreds of dollars at the Coop is certainly good enough news...
...Lewis is back in the news with a book??and maybe, another round of court hearings that may settle the question of his innocence once...