Geoffrey Dunn

This book was fascinating, but thank god it has a substantial bibliography and an index, because there are so many editing and typographical errors that without those appendices, I might have been inclined to marginalize it entirely.

Want examples? Check the hardcover edition, page 105, which proffers "doublejeopardy" as a legal term. doublejeopardy, one word. And on page 256, there is a typo regarding Jim Barnett that is obvious and clunky and not at all suspicious, just careless. There are others (wrung instead of rung) but I forbear.

I can't necessarily fault Mr. Dunn for this. It's probably just curmudgeonly of me, because in the olden days, careful copy-editing was a respected job, and one that I might have worked at, except for these is modern times and we don't need no copy editors on account of we have Spellcheck.

Okay. Aside from all that, I consider this book to be thoughtful, detailed, uncomfortably insightful regarding the state of our nation, and well worth reading. It really ought to have had a less strident title, though.… (meer)