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But Safire knew better than to fight the tides of history and included the word in his political dictionary, lest that weighty tome prove useless to future generations.
This personal agenda is but one of many treasures to be found in a huge, paperbound tome with the sexless title In the Matter of Representative Newt Gingrich: Exhibits to Draft Report of the Select Committee on Ethics . Published as an evidentiary annex to the much shorter and duller House Ethics Committee report itself, the volume contains notes, memos, doodles, cancelled checks, and other Newt ephemera from 1990 to 1994.
The biography reveals fascinating details about Evans' life and provides a new insight into his art, but critics say it gets weighted down by superfluous material the author would likely have removed had he finished the book, resulting in a somewhat "exasperating" tome (Margaret Loke, the New York Times ). Even worse, the ending, which details Evans' final years and death from drinking, is still in the form of unfinished notes by Mellow.
Reviewers call Bloom's tome "a cloak-bag of ideas, stuffed with true wisdom and false bombast" (Jonathan Bate, the Wall Street Journal ). Bloom's vigor and intelligence in his examination of Shakespeare's plays make the book a joy to read, despite the fact that he "does not quite prove his tremendous thesis" (Jodie Morse, Time )--that Shakespeare single-handedly created the modern idea of individual personality.
This quirky tome was compiled by a husband and wife team who used the Los Angeles Times database.
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