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1 comments about Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers.

1. Smith is a black male law professor at Howard University. He selects documents which discuss black women in the law from the time that the first sister was sworn in to the present. This book has great statistical facts and is a good tool for arguing why affirmative action is necessary in law schools. However, I would have preferred if a historian had written this book. As it stands, this is just a scrapbook that included selected writings on the topic. There is much academic literature on women in the law and blacks in the law and it is not incorporated well into this book. In addition, there are a number of incredible black, female law professors out there and their work on black women's legal issues barely gets addressed here. In brief, this book is a nice piece to have, but it could have been better.

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1 comments about The Life And Opinions Of John Buncle, Esq..

1. I will here report the review written for an other edition of the same book, but the advantages of having Ernest Baker's extraordinary introduction to the timeless piece is too exceptional a prospect to forego. It is a classic in its own right and Thomas Amory deserves to be put on the bookshelves with Baker as an usher, a guide that illuminates the reader's descent into the grottos of the novel.
   
   Here below the aforesaid review:
   
   The Life and Opinions of John Buncle, Esquire by Thomas Amory is a rare find throughout the canon of English literature. Long discarded as a secondary read, one that only conneussers and bibliophiles have access to it must somehow receive an injection of interest, for its reading is not only entertaining but informative and psychologically engaging. Hazlitt compared it to Francois Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel"; while a more temperate Charles Lamb called it "an extraordinary compound of all manners of subjects, from the depth of the ludicrous to the heights of religious truths...an infinite fund of pleasantry."
   The gravity, the unconscious humor of the protagonist, the tender affectations, the inimitable stentorian quality here forwarded, and to the delights of many the hard-hearted furious vices of John Buncle denote a blushing irrational suit and vainglorious sensuality that emphatically parlays with the audience's disposition for the inadmissibly excessive, a forefather to Ignatius Reilly of the Confederacy of Dunces, but in a more pronounced articulate and British whimsy that fuses the line between wit and fancy, righteousness and stubborn characterizations. The frivolous and the mad are sentimental enough to warrant our sympathy whereas an overweening presence to faith describes the fears of emptiness with dulcet candor through a unique neurosis, as graceful as much as it is crass.
   Finally I shall end by echoing the words of Leigh Hunt who in his essay "A Book for a Corner , entices one to read the book and roam about in its leisurely and discursive pages, where John Buncle's love for good living is met with a pharisaic animus against vice, blind egotism and portentous arrogance, namely a caricature of some of our (Englishmen) national qualities.

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