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Review title: absolutely awful
Product review: This book, quite simply, represents everything that is wrong today with the liberal arts. Dean, a political science professor, has succeeded in authoring a whole book without actually saying anything useful. One need only skip to the book's conclusory pages to realize the depths Dean has plunged in her attempted deconstruction of civilization. Yet, from her positive reviewers, we the shapeless victims of culture are told that our problems with the book stem either from our misunderstanding of its gargantuan truths, or our realization that Dean is a post-modern prophet who must be silenced. I suggest nothing so high-minded; rather, we dissenters simply know a bad book when we see one. I fear the effect of books like this, and the classes that "teach" them, on the reputation of a liberal arts education.
