May 8, 2009
Immersed in, and Suspicious of, Books
"Things are not looking good for Isaac Rosenfeld." By 2002, when I read those lines in The New York Times, I had already set aside the biography of Rosenfeld I was writing. The Times's grim assessment of Rosenfeld's legacy was pegged to the publication of Richard A. Posner's screed, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline (Harvard University Press), which argues for the connection between market and intellectual value, and includes a list of the biggest and smallest useful minds based on
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