Digital Barbarism, page 27
U.S. Copyright Act of 1998, 128
U.S. Department of Education, 208
U.S. Supreme Court, 125, 203
V
Verne, Jules, 149
“The Veteran Returns to His Fields” (Homer), 97
Virtual reality, 15
W
War, 11, 196–197, 200
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 140, 164
War of Independence, 192
Washington, George, 96, 103
Washington Post, 163, 187
WEbook, 163
Wells, H. G., 149
White House, 102
Wikipedia, 64–66
compared to an encyclopedia, 65
Wikis, 62–63, 73–74, 87, 128
Wilson, Woodrow, 21
Winter’s Tale (Helprin), 142, 144
Words, versus images, 10
World Bank, 156
Writer’s block, 163
Writing, 10, 21–22, 53–54, 57, 71
analysis of, 40–41
anonymity, 65
with pen and paper, 5
plagiarism, 134–135, 209
as a profession, 83
Y
Yale University, 182
Yeats, William Butler, 107, 197–198
About the Author
MARK HELPRIN was educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford and served in the Israeli Army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of, among other titles, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Refiner’s Fire, Winter’s Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War. He lives in Virginia.
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ALSO BY MARK HELPRIN
Freddy and Fredericka
The Pacific and Other Stories
Memoir from Antproof Case
A Soldier of the Great War
Winter’s Tale
Ellis Island and Other Stories
Refiner’s Fire
A Dove of the East
For Children
Swan Lake
A City in Winter
The Veil of Snows
(all with illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg)
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Copyright
Parts of this book originally appeared in the New York Times (chapter two); The Claremont Review of Books (chapter two); and Forbes ASAP (chapters one and six).
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