{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Checking out some books by my favorite professor Stuart Blumin on Amazon and that mass audience does not seem the best for...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/693510425627803648/", "html": "<p>Checking out some books by my favorite professor Stuart Blumin on Amazon and that mass audience does <b>not</b> seem the best for reviewing this sort of stuff \u2013 boors who sought out some frankly deep cuts to trot out their stock complaints of liberal perfessers (he&rsquo;s from a laborite Old Left tradition that predates even the New Left of the 1960s, and fairly spry and unthudding and healthily accepting when things didn&rsquo;t turn out his way honestly), or who just don&rsquo;t understand academic publishing \u2013 yes, it&rsquo;s a little repetitive and focused, it&rsquo;s essentially a repackaging of several previous papers, there&rsquo;s only one or two sections even undergraduate upperclassmen would read, and the people who <i>would</i> care about the sections where he keeps hammering his particular focus would bring a <i>lot</i> more context to appreciate the significance of its subtleties </p>"}