By Mischa Henry
Jill Lepore writes: “Today, publishers figure that men buy the great majority of popular history books; most fiction buyers are women.” Are Blue Miracle: New York Giants, Super Bowl Champions and German Weaponry of World War II history? Are cozy mysteries and belly-strokers like Saying Yes To The Boss really fiction? And if fingers-in-your-pants Romances really are fiction, aren't then sub-hunt Thrillas as well? What about all those books with four-color ads featuring some muscle-headed guy floating near the cover of his latest foil-stamped junker? It invariably stands proudly atop a pile of four or five other foil-stamped brutes, all with their titles in raised print for the emotionally blind. Who buys those? Jill Lepore?
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