| I seem to have an infallible knack for having something in my blurbs go wrong. |
| We all know how book blurbs and theatre notices can, by careful editing, turn critical comments into a rave review. |
| That this is the volume's main thrust is not apparent from the dust-jacket description or laudatory blurbs from colleagues. |
| By the same token, such attention traps reduce any accompanying blurbs to simplifying catchphrases, slogans of common sense. |
| You got back-cover blurbs on your new book from James McPherson, Amanda Foreman, and Doris Kearns Goodwin. |
| I'm sure it takes a monstrous ego to be a White House speechwriter, but do these guys really believe their own promotional blurbs? |
