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Overrated/Underrated (2001)

av American Heritage

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One hundred of America's favorite writers re-evaluate the overpraised and applaud the unappreciated in this fun and impossible-to-put-down collection of highly opinionated essays. What began as one of American Heritage's most popular annual features is collected now in this beautifully illustrated, endlessly entertaining book. One hundred inspired, irreverent, illuminating pieces take a fresh look at the people, places and things we take for great-and for granted. Dozens of America's most celebrated writers muse on the subjects they know best: Liz Smith on the Most Overrated and Underrated Love Affairs; Art Spiegelman on Comic Strips; Lawrence Block on Fictional Private Eyes, and Christopher Buckley on the most Overrated and Underrated Kennedys, to name just a few. Their wizened analysis, leavened with liberal dollops of humor, is sure to inspire thought and lively conversation, whether you agree or disagree, for example, that Barbara Streisand is the most overrated singer or that the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich is the most underrated American dish.… (mer)
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Overrated / Underrated by the editors of the American Heritage Magazine seems to me to be a monumental achievement. They took 100 topics/categories such as "Automobile", or "Generation", or "Sports Moment" and then teamed a writer with some expertise in the matter and had him, or her, come up with an "Overrated" and "Underrated" event, person, device or happening.

While I certainly did not agree with every dissertation, there were few subjects that were not interesting, and I did learn quite a bit. For instance who knew that Amelia Earhart was recruited (and later married) by publisher George Palmer Putnam in hopes of making her the female flipside of Charles Lindbergh? Odd how both aviators suffered such immense losses.

As a matter of fact this book could easily be made into a game. For instance when your relatives for Thanksgiving or Christmas over-stay their welcome, you might bring out this book and, spying your uncle (who is and has been the owner of several Chevrolet Corvettes) approach him with, "Hey, uncle Bob, it says here in my Overrated/Underrated book that the Corvette is the most overrated car ever." And then stand back, so he can take a look in the book at the most underrated car, for he will surely stroke-out and hit the floor (as I did) and then, hopefully, the paramedics will take him and his family away.

I'm certain countless editions of Overrated/Underrated were used as bathroom companions, as most comparisons cover only two opposing pages with large font that can easily be read in the time it takes to ... do it. Apparently it did not sell well, and this could be due to all the photos inside being grainy black and whites in this day of at least 256 colors available everywhere.

Yes this is an excellent book for the library with the ivory throne and for picking up on facts that you missed in high school because you were trying to look up Terri Seymour's skirt in geometry class once made curious about triangles. It's also good for many of us, who don't get out much, because it exposes us to ideas and opinions often time contrary to our own and our friends.


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  AZBob1951 | Oct 27, 2021 |
Eh-it's got some interesting trivia and obviously some of the contributors care very deeply for the topics they write about. This would be interesting to read in the actual magazine, but doesn't fair too well as a stand-alone book. ( )
  kaelirenee | Jun 7, 2008 |
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One hundred of America's favorite writers re-evaluate the overpraised and applaud the unappreciated in this fun and impossible-to-put-down collection of highly opinionated essays. What began as one of American Heritage's most popular annual features is collected now in this beautifully illustrated, endlessly entertaining book. One hundred inspired, irreverent, illuminating pieces take a fresh look at the people, places and things we take for great-and for granted. Dozens of America's most celebrated writers muse on the subjects they know best: Liz Smith on the Most Overrated and Underrated Love Affairs; Art Spiegelman on Comic Strips; Lawrence Block on Fictional Private Eyes, and Christopher Buckley on the most Overrated and Underrated Kennedys, to name just a few. Their wizened analysis, leavened with liberal dollops of humor, is sure to inspire thought and lively conversation, whether you agree or disagree, for example, that Barbara Streisand is the most overrated singer or that the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich is the most underrated American dish.

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