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Mollenhoff is a dexterous craftsman, but sometimes the progression of the book is lost in a flood of details which encumber the reader and threaten to spoil the clarity of the author's argument. The presence of numerous passages from old Des Moines Register issues leaves one with the suspicion that Mollenhoff enjoys pulling old columns from his scrapbook every so often in search of a good quote. The pace slackens especially during the last third of the narrative, where the morass of Watergate-related comings and goings leaves the reader with a "deja vu" feeling; a wish to escape...
...book wasn't rushed to influence the elections, but an extra chapter was added to meet publishing contracts. Actually, anyone knowledgeable about California farm labor or any careful reader of my book would scoff at the idea that the book could influence the elections. They would realize that farm workers can't afford a $12.95 book, and that many of them can't speak, let alone read, English...
Frye goes on from here to give two different ways of looking at popular literature, one as a "packaged commodity" that an overproductive economy, "capitalist or socialist" feeds the masses, and the other, "the literature that demands the minimum of previous verbal experience and special education of the reader...
...Brown decision, Kluger assumes, cannot be understood unless a reader is familiar with previous litigation. More than 100 cases are cited; in addition, the reader is given a cram course in constitutional law, with copious quotes from The Federalist. The Supreme Court passes in review, as well as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Brown decision was in the end less a lawyer's brief than a moral resolution. By making it the centerpiece of a vast pattern, Kluger sometimes tells the reader more than he wants to know (including the annual rainfall in Clarendon County: 50 inches) and relentlessly piles subplots upon subplots. But his collage of facts and events, institutions and people eventually documents nothing less than a national change of heart...