My Amazon review of this 2024 book from Cornell University press has now gone live so I will share it here:
Authors who remain totally subjective with praise or totally objective with condemnation invalidate their credibility with propaganda and polemics. Having always struggled to be objective in criticism and subjective in appreciation, I salute this as a masterpiece of honest self-critical inquiry among coauthors always questioning themselves and one another.
PS– Best to add this as an unobtrusive end of year explanation rather than a beginning of year declaration. Henceforth when I refer to a new book, I will refer readers to the publisher’s website; when I refer to an old book I will refer them to IAPSOP or Google Books. No more links to Youtube and Amazon where misinformation and disinformation reign supreme and AI bots hijack all searches with “what you are looking for might be something we robots think you OUGHT to be looking for.” Even with all the Hollywood movie stars in Elbert’s astro database, there are always books about them to cite and original publisher websites or independent databases to link to.