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                                             November 20-30, 2012


  "More remarkable than Macdonald's ire ...  is
   that the Great Books project, consisting of
   fifty-four volumes of 'densely printed, poorly
   edited reading matter' by the likes of Epictetus
   and Hegel, was at one point selling more than
   50,000 sets a year ... The stunning success of
   these extravagant book sets, as well as the
   6,000 words of extravagant fury Macdonald
   lavished on them, are prime examples of what
   makes this essay collection so fascinating and
   strange."

      Jennifer Szalai,
      "Mac the Knife: On Dwight Macdonald"
      The Nation, November 21, 2011

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