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Someone Has Blundered.(Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?)(Book Review)
Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?, by Mary Warnock; Oxford University Press, 2002, $39.95.
I DON'T KNOW how it is with poetry and novels but I do know that, while the puffs on the backs of academic books are written by admiring reviewers, most of the blurbs inside the dustjackets are produced by the authors. Occasionally, it is true, editors write the blurbs, which are then checked and approved by the authors.
It is interesting to see how academic writers "anonymously" describe themselves and their works. Some blurbs reveal big-headedness, others ignorance or hidden anxieties or secret wishes. A quiet, modest, perhaps slightly timid ...
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