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Frank is a young academic who is best known as the founder of a lively cultural criticism 'zine called the Baffler . For a renovated dissertation, The Conquest of Cool is blessedly free of academic throat-clearing and professional jargon.
With children who are literate but not large, and omnipresent X-rated news, mothers and fathers have been in for a lot of lip-biting, brow-furrowing, and earnest throat-clearing.
I don't know about you, David, but I was at first put off by the rather unleavened prose, the endless morphological distinctions ("systems," "orders," "spheres," "situses," "axial principles," "dimensions" ...), and the paragraphs full of academic throat-clearing ("But the limitations of forecasting are also evident.
After a bit of visual throat-clearing, Eyes of the Nation begins in earnest with a drawing of the Indian village of Secota on Roanoke Island in what would become North Carolina.
The thing came in 11 "chapters," and there was so much throat-clearing that the sixth was actually called, "The Prelude."