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Over at Crooked Timber, Kieran Healy looks at what is most likely to be found in sections of your local Borders or Barnes and Noble. He's amusing us, of course, but isn't it so? He's spot on the money about Ayn Rand in the Philosophy and the general poverty of the Religion sections. His version of Barnes and Noble History:

Content has stablized since the 1996 law requiring that 90 percent of all history books be about the Civil War or World War II. The remainder can be about how the ethnic group of your choice saved everyone else's sorry asses, but it's not like people are grateful or anything.

It's not like there's anything else worth writing about back then. Is there?

Posted on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 4:20 PM | Comments (8) | Return

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