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Old 09-20-2012, 08:40 AM   #66
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
I keep of list of what I finish. Here are the last ten:

7/7 Arthur Herman, Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
7/12 Faye Kellerman, Blindman’s Bluff
7/27 Faye Kellerman, Hangman
8/2 Len Deighton, SS-GB
8/10 Paul Thomas Murphy, Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy
8/11 Andrew Gumbel and Roger Charles, Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why It Still Matters
8/15 Martin Cruz Smith, Polar Star
9/1 Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame An Irreverent Escapade
9/7 Craig Shirley, December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World
9/16 Robin Fisher and Angelo Guglielmo Jr, The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception


My guess is that without at least a low level of copyright enforcement, at most one of them would have been written. Paul Thomas Murphy used to be a professor, and maybe he writes out of academic habit. But if he didn't get any money out of it, would he be able to travel to all those American and British research libraries?
Traveling is neat and all, but if all of those research materials were freely available online, the research might be a bit easier...

Either way, it's all in your head.
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