The Kiss of Lamourette

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At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" -this section includes the wonderful story of the moment in 1792 when all the delegates in the French Legislative Assembly kissed each other, "Media, " on television, pounding a newspaper beat, and tips to academics on how to get a book published, "The Printed Word, " with an essay on the history of books, "The Lay of the Land, " on aspects of intellectual history, and "Good Neighbors, " on the relation of history to literature anthropology, and the sociology of knowledge.