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Review title: cashing in
Product review: One understands the temptation. Even a best selling work of serious history doesn't earn the kind of money considered 'serious' in Wall Street terms. Imagine the frustration of teaching class after class of Columbia College students only to watch the little twerps become richer within a few years of graduation than their professor will ever be. Then this television company offers you, like, serious money to lend your name , the name of a serious, distinguished, respected historian, to the enterprise of packaging historical pablum for the semi-literate. Hey, everybody else is cashing in - why not Schama? It's not as though he's done anything truly evil after all. Merely lent his name to a grade B book. I presume that he didn't write the thing, I hope he spent his time writing something substantive. A mind, after all, is a terrible thing to waste.
