{"id":25,"date":"2006-01-13T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/13\/thanks-to-will-grigg-the-new-american\/"},"modified":"2006-01-15T21:49:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T02:49:49","slug":"thanks-to-will-grigg-the-new-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/13\/thanks-to-will-grigg-the-new-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Will Grigg &#038; the New American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Grigg, the editor-in-chief of the <strong><em>New American<\/em><\/strong>, wrote a very kind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/artman\/publish\/article_3010.shtml\"><strong><em>review <\/em><\/strong><\/a>of Attention Deficit Democracy. I appreciate his bovine humor, since it goes back to my roots. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spectacular&#8230; Attention Deficit Democracy displays Bovard&#8217;s emergence<br \/>\nas a formidable prose stylist. Relentlessly incisive and epigrammatic, Bovard at his best reminds me of Nock and Mencken. And in the course of nearly 300 pages, he very rarely &#8211; if ever &#8211; descends from that exalted level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Grigg, the editor-in-chief of the New American, wrote a very kind review of Attention Deficit Democracy. I appreciate his bovine humor, since it goes back to my roots. \u00a0 &#8220;Spectacular&#8230; Attention Deficit Democracy displays Bovard&#8217;s emergence as a formidable prose stylist. 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