Thank you for exposing Baker and his dangerous book. As I read your review, I kept thinking about Jonah Goldberg's... [MORE]
Paul Cruce
Mar 25, 2008 10:32
Surely there is a case to be made against Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke," but Adam Kirsch has not made it... [MORE]
Max Greene
Mar 18, 2008 11:21
Max Greene comments that since Baker defines Goebbels as an "anti-intellectual monster" he doesn't rehabilitate Goebbels character by using him... [MORE]
William Maron
Mar 25, 2008 10:00
The reviewer makes it quite clear why this is a terrible book. He points out how the author has not... [MORE]
MClark
Mar 25, 2008 13:43
Unfortunately, this viewpoint is all too common in history departments at colleges throughout the country. The influence of Chomsky and... [MORE]
NJB
Mar 17, 2008 18:10
So often history is updated to serve a current trend or philosophy. People like Nicholson Baker seem to lack... [MORE]
Roger Strong
Mar 17, 2008 03:14
Thank God there are people as sane, informed, and articulate as Adam Kirsch to put a damper on run-amoks like... [MORE]
Bill Parker
Mar 15, 2008 20:38
america was compelled to join ww2 on the side of the allies only after japan attacked pearl harbor. it was... [MORE]
B Eluma
Mar 15, 2008 08:03
This revisionist history of WW2 is seriouse. Noam Chomsky named once a pacifist from WW2 as his hero. And he... [MORE]
Yosifon
Mar 15, 2008 02:11
I thank the writer for the excellent review. I lambasted the Los Angeles Times in a letter for an inexcusable... [MORE]
Jonathan Eddison
Mar 14, 2008 21:33
I know something about WW II and I take Human Smoke seriously . I am certain that I will not... [MORE]
Robert Birnbaum
Mar 14, 2008 10:21
I applaud the author's debunking of Human Smoke. Nicholson Baker seems to have a poor grasp of history in that... [MORE]
Ken Dobler
Mar 14, 2008 08:43
Sustainable peace is one of those ideals history has failed to deliver. War is a constant and regular feature of... [MORE]
Robert Landbeck
Mar 13, 2008 14:41
'Smoke' appears to be a shameless shower of venality. Sensationalism at all costs and The L.A.
Times is interested only in... [MORE]
Patrick
Mar 13, 2008 13:44
An excellent review: Mr. Kirsch has put trash in its proper place. The notion, however, that Allied bombing of Germany... [MORE]
Aaron Krishtalka
Mar 13, 2008 13:00
Aaron, I think you're right about the importance of the strategic bombing campaign for destroying the Luftwaffe. In that sense,... [MORE]
Kent G. Budge
Mar 20, 2008 15:08
>> I can't say I know the answer, though I wonder if directed attacks against the fuel infrastructure wouldn't have... [MORE]
Noisesome
Mar 25, 2008 09:55
Gosh, who ever would have guessed that there was a question about "the continuing centrality of World War II in... [MORE]
Michael Anderson
Mar 13, 2008 12:17
Excellent review of a book that clearly tries to be important but fails mightily. War is not, in and of... [MORE]
Gray Rinehart
Mar 13, 2008 09:07
What has happened to publishing?
Books about the Nazis as well-meaning chaps; books about China sailing to America in the 15th... [MORE]
Scott Oxon
Mar 13, 2008 07:29
Was you there? I have vivid memories of being thrown into the air raid shelter, of ducking behind gravestones to... [MORE]
Alan Lea
Mar 13, 2008 03:09
This kind of 'book' - a mere sensationalist assemblage of disconnected oddments - can only appeal to those with no... [MORE]
Paul Perry
Mar 13, 2008 01:07
My father volunteered for Army Service at the start of WWII. He served in all five European campaigns. Two bronze... [MORE]
Vance
Mar 13, 2008 13:14
. . . especially as he volunteered in 1939. [MORE]
gilbo
Mar 14, 2008 18:36
I hope no hapless young mind is ever exposed ot this self righteous ignoramus. I am afraid though that there... [MORE]
shriber
Mar 12, 2008 23:48
The term "good war" was popularized by Chicago author Studs Terkel in his volume of that name, I believe.Of course,... [MORE]
Larry
Mar 13, 2008 01:29
Terkel's 'good war' is probably Augustine's 'just war' [MORE]
tony o'brien
Mar 13, 2008 05:40
As ever, what is left of the publishing business bobs for goodies in the culture potty. [MORE]
Russ Thayer
Mar 13, 2008 08:57
After reading all the gushing comments in Amazon about this book your review came as breath of fresh air. [MORE]
andrew
Mar 12, 2008 11:12
I have just begun reading this book but I can already see that you have missed an important point in... [MORE]
rhbee
Mar 12, 2008 10:36
Your review points out one of the fundamental problems, growing over the last 30 years or so, namely, that in... [MORE]
Brian Switzer
Mar 13, 2008 08:52
"stories, quotes and dates" are useless without context. I could quote the president of Iran's assertion that there is not... [MORE]
MEB
Mar 13, 2008 11:57
this one have only read the review. If you're are really going to question the value of someone's work then... [MORE]
