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Still, this is a book whose bibliography includes monographs entitled Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue and tomes such as The History and Social Influence of the Potato --so the rest of it is still loaded with nuggets worth finding.
It was ponderous, authoritative, and dedicated to the proposition that the world was changing slowly enough that giant tomes were the perfect vehicle for communicating information about it.
The New Yorker has fought back with special issues--massive tomes about race or Hollywood or the future.
In the Washington Post , Jill Ker Conway says the book throws more light on the "psychology of women, and the profound changes brought by the women's movement, than a dozen tomes filled with psychological jargon."
As any reader of VERBATIM knows, there are many books on the market designed to do exactly this; however, one can rarely get through more than the first few chapters of such tomes.