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On 12/24/12 8:30 PM, michael yates wrote:
So I read a bit of this review, got bored, and looked at the bottom of the page to see how the author is identified. Seems Katz has written at least 40 books and edited 212 more. I kid you not. At just three months per book, this is 636 months or 63 years.
Well, since he graduated from Syracuse University in 1950 (back then it was considered a second-rate "party" school), he must be 84 or so. Paul Buhle, who is a year older than me, has written 35 books so he is even more prolific. Also Katz was a high school teacher all his life so I doubt that writing all those books was designed to get him to the top of the academic food chain. On his website, there's a blurb from Howard Zinn who calls Katz one of his favorite writers, for what that's worth. If I had my choice between president of some academic association and getting that kind of complement from Zinn, I'd take the latter. But then again what do I know.
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