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Review title: Everything wrong with academic writing
Product review: My comments deal only with Goldhagen's skills as a writer, which are conspicuously absent. His book cries out for a good editor, who would have toned down the academic puffery, pretentious jargon in place of resonant language. He takes a topic of exceptional importance and kills it for readers outside the academy (and, contrary to what many may think, even those in the academy prefer lucid, compelling, non-redundant prose).Perhaps the person who told Goldhagen to publish his dissertation should have mentioned that rewriting would be involved.
