A. Roger Ekirch
Autore di At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
Sull'Autore
Opere di A. Roger Ekirch
Opere correlate
An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution (Perspectives on the American Revolution) (1985) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Ekirch, A. Roger
- Nome legale
- Ekrich, Arthur Roger
- Data di nascita
- 1950-02-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Delmar, New York, USA
Roanoke County, Virginia, USA - Istruzione
- Dartmouth College (AB|1972 - History)
Johns Hopkins University (MA|1974|Ph.D|1978) - Attività lavorative
- professor
historian - Relazioni
- Ekirch, Arthur A. (father)
- Organizzazioni
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow, Society of American Historians
James L. Clifford Prize (2002)
Percy G. Adams Prize (2002)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 994
- Popolarità
- #25,916
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 23
- ISBN
- 22
- Lingue
- 3
This might sound like a one star review, but perhaps some of the problem is that when I read history I have my brain turned on. If I want to read with it off I’ll pick up a thriller. If you read exclusively history and expect it to serve all your moods you might enjoy it as a light read. There’s something gentle and quiet about it. I enjoyed the chapter about naughty things people do at night because I’m a pervert, but many chapters I would tire of after a couple of paragraphs and skip. There’s also a chapter on second sleep, which is what prompted me to read the book in the first place. This starts out a little more seriously, but soon degenerates into the usual performance.
There are also technical problems with the 2022 W&N reprint. On the cover the subtitle and author name are in some hideous sans serif typeface, the kind of thing you see inexperienced self-publishers use. This is over some stock photo but there’s no banner or border so it just looks slapped on. The text on the spine hasn’t been centred properly. The typeface inside is a vile, prissy, fussy little thing, particularly ill-suited to a book of quotations because the quotation marks are set halfway up the high stems. Perhaps this amateurishness should have keyed me in to this not being a real book, but I figured it’s done by Hachette and we can hardly expect them not to farm it out to some intern, can we?… (altro)