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...Hanks deserves our admiration, but is he really our "chronicler in chief" [March 15]? I've been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," I flashed on the works of Rick Atkinson, Richard Bessel, Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy and a hundred other academic historians who have made the war real, capturing both its grand scale and its smallest details. David Jacobs Los Angeles...
...been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Tom Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," I flashed on the works of Rick Atkinson, Richard Bessel, Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy and a hundred other academic historians who have made the war real, capturing both its grand scale and its smallest details. David Jacobs, LOS ANGELES...
...Hanks deserves our admiration, but is he really our "chronicler in chief" [March 15]? I've been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," I flashed on the works of Rick Atkinson, Richard Bessel, Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy and a hundred other academic historians who have made the war real, capturing both its grand scale and its smallest details...
...professionals, wanted their garments to have Chinese touches. "As the Chinese economy grows, and its market matures, we've realized that Chinese consumers have their own distinctive needs," Zhou says. That's why in Septwolves shops jackets are just as likely to have a Mandarin collar as a notched lapel. Color palettes are geared to domestic tastes and all garments, even those intended for casual wear, have a certain dressiness, fit and attention to detail that Chinese men prefer - you'll see no skater shorts, scruffy denim or torn tees hanging on a Septwolves rack. "We've learned to adopt...
...Armageddon and Exodus - taught Hanks to feel history in a way no high school teacher ever did, but the entertainment level had to be hyperkinetic to hold his attention. It was the same with most academic histories. "The writing is often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," he says. Ken Burns' miniseries The Civil War, which aired on PBS in the fall of 1990, gave him a sense of how he might bridge that gap. "I watched that with my son," Hanks recalls. "There was nothing but great music married with talking heads, pan and scan...