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Fortunately, Flaubert's life, which spanned more than half of the 19th century--a turbulent time in French politics and one of the more fruitful in French intellectual and literary history--is in itself interesting enough to save the book and make it fairly engaging...
Although Flaubert, who was always engaged in a search for just the right word or phrase, sometimes wrote only a few lines in a day, his parents amassed quite a good deal of land (at least a full chapter of the book details its location and exact acerage), which provided a consistent income in rents...
Stoll omitted some details from the article because the FBI and its German equivalent, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), were still investigating the incident when it was written. The astronomer now has a contract with Doubleday for a book about his work...
...primary message of Bloom's book, The Closing of the American Mind, is that "education in its true meaning is an elite phenomenon," since "wide distribution [of it] becomes tantamount to [its] devaluation," Cremin said...
Cremin won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for his book, American Education: The National Experience...