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Continuing my nonfiction theme, I read this book because I wanted to find out about "A Visit from St. Nicholas," or "Twas the Night before Christmas." The poem is attributed to Clement Moore, but Foster, who is a master sleuth of writing, shows why it almost certainly wasn't written by Moore. This case comes late in the book, however, and Foster expertly draws the reader in with his involvement in the Unabomber case, as well as other writers who wanted to hide their identities for various reasons. After he establishes how an English professor came to be consulted by the FBI, he turns his attention to a favorite Christmas poem. Very well done indeed.
From the professor who invented literary forensics--and fingered Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors--comes the inside story of how he solves his most challenging cases
Don Foster is the world's first literary detective. Realizing that everyone's use of language is as distinctive as his or her DNA, Foster developed a revolutionary methodology for identifying the writer behind almost any anonymous document. Now, in this enthralling book, he explains his techniques and invites readers to sit by his side as he searches a mysterious text for the clues that whisper the author's name. Foster's unique skills first came to…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Impossible accounts of saintly miracles, witch hunts, and demon-possession are "medieval," right? Wrong—or not quite. The fever pitch of these phenomena struck in early modernity—precisely when Newton and Descartes were alive and kicking—and not merely among the illiterate unwashed but among the most learned elites of the age.
Eire, an award-winning historian, takes the reader on a fascinating expedition through the most famous (and infamous) levitators and bilocators of that era and the voluminous documentary witnesses to their feats. At the end he brings the pile-driver. In the 16th and 17th centuries, "everybody knew" that levitation was real. How did it come to be that in the 20th and 21st centuries "everybody knows" it ISN'T real independent of data one way or the other?
An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
"Historically rich and superbly written."-David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos M. N. Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals.
Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life…
