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Friday, January 14--The pancakes were great--for playing frisbee, that is--and the fried eggs were a bit on the squirmish side.
The knockwursts let off steam whenever a fork and knife approached and the fried clams made like a lot of undergraduates--after being caught, they apparently took a year off. Let's say they tasted like 75-'3.
Not even Fried's own history seems to substantiate Prescott's claim that contemporary America is a fallen world, at odds with its ideal past. A large part of the book's bite comes, in fact, from a half-humorous debunking of out historical myths: Emerson got most of his...
If the endpoint of The Prescott Chronicles is puzzling, the journey there has its compensations. Not as consistently engrossing as the finest historical novels. The Prescott Chronicles does occasionally attain to a plotted intensity. Each section of the book consists of the leavings of one particular family scion (there are...
Fried's appointed task--to synthesize history and literature in a way that will do justice to both--is an ambitious one, perhaps overly so. In the end, his work is very hard to judge for jsut that reason. Only when he sticks to public figures and actual historical events...