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This State Has "Boundries" (Sic), But No Focus: A Review, Richard Defoe
This State Has "Boundries" (Sic), But No Focus: A Review, Richard Defoe
E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)
Review of Louisiana Biographical Dictionary: People of all Times and Places Who Have Been Important to the History and Life of the State. Somerset Publishers, St. Clair Shores, MI, 1999. $87.50.
Review:
Somerset Publishers produce biographical dictionaries of some of these United States. The Louisiana volume does not instill confidence in their efforts. Sloppy printing, sloppy proof-reading and sloppy and turgid writing are just the beginning of the problems with this book – the title of this review features one of their glaring spelling errors from the foreword.
But the major problem with this book seems to be focus, …