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About Nicholson Baker
See more books from this AuthorA catalog of primary sources creatively fashioned by novelist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winner Baker (Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, 2001, etc.) tells the grim story of the making of two world wars.
May 20 2010 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...“‘Perhaps my factories will put an end to war even sooner than your congresses,’ Alfred Nobel said. ‘On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.’”
Mar 23 2008 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...Nicholson Baker’s muddled and often infuriating pacifist interpretation of the events leading to World War II sounds its single, solemn note incessantly: war is bad.
Mar 12 2008 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...Nicholson Baker’s pacifist history of World War II is an eloquent and passionate assault on the idea that targeting civilians can ever be justified.
Mar 23 2008 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...Baker uses his cut-and-paste technique to undermine completely the notion that Churchill - and to a lesser extent Roosevelt - were in any conceivable way unalloyed forces for good in the world.
May 31 2008 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...Other reviewers were confused rather than incensed by Baker’s many snippets, suggesting that Human Smoke might not be the best book for someone just learning about the war, or even for someone looking for a pacifist take.
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| Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...You do your worstand we will do our best. (Baker recently said that his book’s austere tone was, in part, a reaction to this rhetoric: Churchill’s endlessly flowing eloquence temporarily turned off my adjectival spigots.) Bombing was, to Churchill, Baker writes, a form of pedagogya way of...
Mar 24 2008 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...Nicholson Baker, author of "Human Smoke" Cover art for "Human Smoke" by Nicholson Baker.
Apr 17 2008 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...- in both senses - response to Human Smoke, and sums up the book .
| Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...But China is building up its reserves of wheat, and is now widely seen as working more energetically than many developing countries for an ambitious global climate change agreement.
Jul 28 2014 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...But Democrats’ recruitment of Heitkamp proved to be a winning move.
Nov 07 2012 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...Israel has become accustomed to others fixing their mess, but the time ahs come or them state of Israel to grow up and become responsible.
Jan 19 2009 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...So he declared in the subtitle of his book: “The Beginning of World War II, the End of Civilization.” Yet after “the End of Civilization” come 336 pages about the history of the war, ending with the curious date of Dec. 31, 1941, more than three weeks after Pearl Harbor.
Apr 18 2008 | Read Full Review of Human Smoke: The Beginnings o...An aggregated and normalized score based on 146 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes