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    <body><![CDATA[To be great is to be misunderstood; to be misunderstood is to be thought great by critics. To ordinary mortals, even those capable of graduating with highest honors from college, this book is a paradigm of turgid prose. I tried and failed 3-4 times to read but had to give up 2/3 of the way through on my most exhaustive (and exhausting) effort. I have read U.S. Code sections, legal casebooks and economic texts that were both more understandable and entertaining than this. Oh well, it won the National Book award in 1973 but the Pulitzer Board at least turned down a recommendation from its fiction jury.]]></body>
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