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Review title: Caveat Lector
Product review: This book and its companion volume represent a prodigious amount of research. Having said that, though, I also have to warn potential readers that they should not take it at face value. Along with several colleagues, I have examined a representative sample of Quinn's footnotes. Without exception -- literally, without exception -- I have found the notes problematic. They seem padded. The sources cited often appear largely irrelevant to the point made in the main text. Quite frequently, when the sources are actually examined, they don't really turn out to say what Quinn says they do. This is extraordinarily troubling. Few if any of us have the time to look up all of the many, many references -- even if they were easily accessible. I don't have the time myself. But my sample suggests to me that I can't rely on Quinn's scholarship at any point with any degree of real confidence. Others have come to similar conclusions.
