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...Tocqueville myself, but I'm not sure that a defense of the moneyed elite was what Alexis had in mind when he wrote his tome. The final clubs are wealthy, prejudicial associations with a long sexist and racist heritage. They are bastions of old-boy networking and prep-school traditionalism, with wealthy alumni now working at Merrill Lynch and the State Department who fund the clubs and their beautiful limited-access buildings. As Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says, "the final clubs are where Harvard students learn to discriminate...
...Stone's The Trial of Socrates provides an unintended counterweight to the central theses of Bloom, who fancies himself a disciple of Socrates. Stone, the legendary lefty muckraking journalist, set out in his retirement to write a sweeping tome on freedom of thought in human history. His studies inevitably drew him back to Athens. "There, like so many before me," he writes, "I fell in love with the Greeks...
B.S.O.H member. (loudly interrupting) "WOW! That's really cool! But, hey, doesn't that somehow relate to what the professor said in lecture the other day...let me just check my extensive notes here (shuffles a tome of blank notebook paper cleverly disguised with a page of notes on top and bottom)...ah, yes, here it is...what this reminds me of is just how neat all the information seems to fit together! This is really a very cohesive course...
...lucrative business. The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality (1976) and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (1981) together earned the coolly glamorous author $2.5 million. The new tome, Women and Love, a Cultural Revolution in Progress (Knopf; $24.95), is characteristically grandiose in scope, murky in methodology -- and right on target for commercial appeal. Having spent seven years analyzing a survey of the views of some 4,500 American women, Hite has concluded that they are fed up with the male of the species. "What is going on right now in the minds of women is a large...
...Dean's Blind Ambition, Charles Colson's Born Again and John Ehrlichman's The Company. By the time Richard Nixon's book came along, in 1978, a Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs had been born. Its slogan, "Don't buy books from crooks," failed to work; the Nixon tome earned him $2.2 million, and the hardback became a best seller. But the phrase caught the spirit of the only official ethical stand that Americans have ventured on sensational exploitations. In some 30 states, so-called Son of Sam laws (named for the serial murderer who killed six young women...