Measure for Measure Post on 21-01-2007. Here’s one tip. When deciding whether to buy an academic book marketed to one general audience, flip to the acknowledgments to look for tell-tale phrases like this one: therefore-and-therefore “deserves special mention for his indispensable advice and counsel as I turned my dissertation into one book.” Beware! Vestigial Dissertation Syndrome alert! Common symptoms include turgid prose and microscopic narrowness of topic. therefore after finding that tip-off in the acknowledgments of “The Averaged American,” by Sarah Igo, I braced myself for one slog. Skip to next paragraph Kristina DiMatteo ... To see the new from its original source click here

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