A review by arthur_pendrgn
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between by Thomas C. Foster

2.0

The folksy tone as disappeared and I lost the sense that he was speaking to his students. An over-reliance on a finite set of books does not help matters--if you haven't read McPhee or Ambrose, most of this book won't clear matters up. This is part history of nonfiction, part structure of nonfiction, part critical reading of nonfiction (although not until late in the book), part diatribe. The book is worth a read--the cogent information can provide insight. However, other than the fact that I agree with Foster's review of the Trump-based texts of Woodward and Wolff alongside Michelle Obama and Comey, not much useful until I got to the end.