Just for you, I’ll say this about the James book. First, its original title, “The Politics of Glory,” was better. I don’t know why they changed it. Second, reading that book was the first time it occurred to me that some of the people in the Hall of Fame might not belong there. It set me off on a course of learning that likely would have been greatly delayed if I hadn’t read it. Even though I’ve come to disagree with much of what James wrote in it, the book made me think, and that’s basically the highest compliment I can pay to a writer.
Ohhh thanks! I think that’s kind of the deal with James ultimately (and sadly). He’s indispensable for highlighting a kind of new approach to thinking but is himself a cautionary tale of the limits of such thinking.
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Just for you, I’ll say this about the James book. First, its original title, “The Politics of Glory,” was better. I don’t know why they changed it. Second, reading that book was the first time it occurred to me that some of the people in the Hall of Fame might not belong there. It set me off on a course of learning that likely would have been greatly delayed if I hadn’t read it. Even though I’ve come to disagree with much of what James wrote in it, the book made me think, and that’s basically the highest compliment I can pay to a writer.
Ohhh thanks! I think that’s kind of the deal with James ultimately (and sadly). He’s indispensable for highlighting a kind of new approach to thinking but is himself a cautionary tale of the limits of such thinking.
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