12.23.06
The Argument Culture: Tenth Post (Final Thoughts)
I’m not sure what to think of the reader’s guide at the end of the this book. It wasn’t awful, but it made me wonder more about who made it than it made me think about the book. Who was the interviewer and who wrote the questions? They were very reporterish questions and fell into many standard press pitfalls. It was really odd and did not feel like a “reader’s companion”. I guess I just felt like in some ways they missed the point. And what was with the question about the framers of the Constitution? It made little to no sense and even Tannen kind of said that! The whole thing was just weird. I think I stick by my position of disliking reader’s guides.