| THE GROUCHY HISTORIAN An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs Ed Asner Ed. Weinberger New York: Simon & Schuster, October 2017 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-6602-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10: 1-5011-6602-6 | 336pp. | HC | $26.00 | |
| Page 61: | "Since neither of the gentlemen paid me no mind, I continued my work, remaining to overhear their conversation." |
| Word choice: S/B "paid me any mind". |
| Page 90: | "Owned over 1,600 acres of downtown New Jersey, 100 acres of..." |
| I'm not sure what this means: perhaps areas close to New York City? |
| Page 116: | "Imagine having a house next to one owned by Ted Nugent." |
| I'm no fan of Ted Nugent, but this is a poor use of his notoriety. |
| Page 137: | "...the book sold more than a million unread copies and made no. 1..." |
| I have no idea how Mr. Asner knows the copies were unread. |
| Page 139: | "It also means that multimillionaires such as Levin would pay the same amount of taxes as the minimum-wage employee at Jack-in-the-Box who microwaves your bacon." |
| Factual error: S/B "pay the same tax rate". |
| Page 159: | "And second, equally ambitious, was his advocation of eugenics..." |
| Word choice: S/B "advocacy". |
| Page 164: | "Written by them, this Bill of Rights would dose out just enough 'freedoms' to appease the 'people'..." |
| Word choice: S/B "dole". |
| Page 183: | "Bank accounts were forfeited. Jobs lost." |
| Missing verb: S/B "Jobs were lost." |
| Page 185: | "...nor did he comment on the horror of such medical experimentation on an involuntary serviceman." |
| Word order: S/B "involuntary medical experimentation on a serviceman". |
| Page 187: | "When the Court of Appeals dismissed the case on the grounds that Hardwick's constitutional rights had been violated, the State of Georgia appealed..." |
| Missing word: S/B "Hardwick's constitutional rights had not been violated". |
| Page 250: | "It was that dread over Shay's Rebellion and the anarchy it represented that kept the Framers literally glued to their Windsor chairs during the hot summer of 1787." |
| Usage: S/B "glued". |
| Page 262: | "...that assures a society of the 'haves' and the 'haves';..." |
| Missing word: S/B "the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'". |
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