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| | Book Review, 9/8/2000 - The Texas Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Limerick has gathered these speeches into an edited collection, Something in the Soil, a smorgasbord of sixteen essays from which readers may sample the array of wit and wisdom for which she is best known. |
 | | Limerick sets out her rules for becoming a successful, accessible historian, teacher, and lecturer in three brief essays in Part V. One, first published in The New York Times Magazine, is a mordantly funny send-up of jargon-heavy, academic prose ("Why choose camouflage and insulation over clarity and directness?" she asks). |
 | | Limerick is far more clear when she says, up front, that she wrote these essays and presented them publicly as a kind of "field-testing of the New Western History" to "redeem higher education." "Field-testing," she explains, entailed running her ideas by non-historians, talking to them, and presenting the abovementioned talking points. |
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