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“... main, most of them remain unchanged. This is a fault more of the form than the author. Since Tom Wolfe made his call for the non-fiction novel in the late Sixties, journalists have from time to time adapted the novel’s form to the telling of a true story. Unfortunately, it rarely works. No matter how much research the author does (and Carpenter has done a ...”

“... and truly unfulfilled. It is this gratuitous fishing for anxieties that has angered critics like Linda Wolfe: But how do they know? Did any of their 400 women have orgasms as a result of G-spot stimulation? If so, how many? Why are there no figures here? Indeed, why are there no descriptions of the technique the researchers used to produce that ...”

“... the critique of Modernist American architecture concocted by a chauvinist die-hard like Tom Wolfe, his liberalism has its limits. Identity politics plays no role in his understanding of contemporary representation. While he is all for the rights of blacks and gays to free artistic expression he is decidedly less happy with recent feminist contributions ...”

“... men in 1740 to 112,000 fifty years later. Nor was this aggression confined to Asia. When James Wolfe marched on New France in 1759 he compared himself, quite deliberately, to Christopher Columbus. Pagden is right of course to point out that many Enlightenment intellectuals were anxious to assert the primacy of commerce over conquest. But they did so in ...”