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Opinion

Michael Barone

Entries for August 03, 2006

Who ended the slave trade?

August 03, 2006 01:35 PM ET |

As I think I have mentioned before in the blog, I don't read American book reviews. The New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, and Washington Post Book World seem to be dominated totally by the mindless fashionable left, and I find that the reviews on things I know something about tend to be annoying and, more important, unenlightening. The whole point of reading book reviews is to learn a whole lot of what you would have learned if you had read the whole book, especially when it's a book you never would have gotten around to reading on your own. And, yes, I know that there are good pieces in the TBR, the NYRB and even WPBW from time to time that I would enjoy and learn from. But life is short and one must make choices.

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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