Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca
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Lingua Franca covered the intellectual life of the 1990s--when American scholars took to the public stage as never before--with wit and passion and helped establish many of the leading voices in... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0374528632
ISBN13:9780374528638
Release Date:September 2002
Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux
Length:514 Pages
Weight:1.36 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 8.6"
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An elegant introduction to a magazine killed too soon
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Is this collection of articles from Lingua Franca really worth five stars? Don't know, but I offer it up as a kind of tribute to the magazine itself which, while it lasted, tried and often succeeded to combine the intellectual rigor of "The Nation" with the character-assassinating fun of something like "The Midnight Tattler." In "Quick Studies" you will find many of the articles that made the magazine controversial back in the day, everything from the "Sokol Hoax" to the startling accusations against Professor Jane Gallup on sexual harassment charges. (...)"Quick Studies" is well worth the money you will invest in it, but it has some dry patches as well as the thrill of the chase.
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