Word: succintly
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...twin bicentennials is as close as historical biographies get to a home run) becomes something more, a learned treatise that worships learning. Gone is the overly twee writing of Gopnik's memoir-inflected works (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate), and in its place is a succint, convincing, and moving account of how two men ripped mankind out of its past unreason and thrust it into a more enlightened age. Much has flowed from them...
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