Volume 29, Number 9 · May 27, 1982
Mysteries in History
By C. Vann Woodward
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection
by James West Davidson, by Mark Hamilton Lytle
Knopf, 388 pp., $19.50
Cynics (mainly professors) will occasionally call pedagogy a lame branch of the entertainment industry. A standard defense is that you have to keep classes awake somehow. The fact is that a good many professors fancy themselves as entertainers, cultivate theatrical wiles, and cherish reputations as performers. Few successful teachers are able to dispense with such stratagems completely in a pinch.
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