Re: HFC, p. 60, also Krauthammer chapter in general--you're going to get a lot of attention
Subject: Re: HFC, p. 60, also Krauthammer chapter in general--you're going to get a lot of attention
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 7/14/10, 16:32
To: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>

Unfortunately, the editor is not very good at catching errors, and in fact is in the habit of adding them in by accident. I've just sent along these you've  sent along with a few others, and will need to send along more when I remember where I saw them upon initial read.

We'll see about the reaction. Flock of Dodos seems to be on rec reading lists at a couple of universities.



On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
These things being relative, he is today considered—rightfully—
to be among the Republican Party’s greatest intellectual
assets. In a profile piece that appeared in mid-2009, Politico’s
Ben Smith proclaimed the Canadian-born commentator to be
“a coherent, sophisticated

per Wikipedia, he was born in NYC, looking at their sources, looks like he moved to Canada around age 5

The Krauthammer chapter is the most audacious piece of writing I have read in a long time; I think you'll get called a kook and taught in schools, well, colleges anyway. If you had given me a stack of your source materials and told me to write the chapter I would have produced something called "Krauthammer and the Pernicious Rhetoric of Convenience" or some such awful plodding Master's thesis. I think we better get Project PM ready for an onslaught of fanatic fans. It will be interesting to see how many of them are my age. Who else besides A. Sullivan is reading it?

I haven't been reading to find little errors--is somebody doing that? As much scrutiny as this book will get, it needs to be really gone over carefully.



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