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tara_true's review
3.0
A major theme of this book is the fact that much of its information is derivative; outside of academia nobody cares about that. Many of the essays in this volume come across as angry and overly theoretical ("pseudo-bourgeois" etc.) and the man on the street has no idea who Foucault was for example. It's not a newsflash that biographers mold their subjects in their own image. There also seems to be huge issues with speaking ill of the dead. On the other hand, the essays by Peter Bailey, Karl Evanz, and the late Amiri Baraka are very much worth reading.