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The Enlightened Bracketologist
Mark Reiter
The Final Four of Everything
Bloomsbury Publishing
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
254 pages
ISBN: 159691310X
EAN: 9781596913103
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Introducing the ingenious, addictive tool for judging
everything under the sun: ENLIGHTENED BRACKETOLOGY, the new
science that makes opinion a sport. Political battles are won and lost by popular vote. Great
movies are nominated and chosen by committee. The rest of
the world is more or less up for grabs. As a cure for the
resulting confusion, Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir have
organized the world's most haunting and maddeningly
subjective questions into a scheme of binary pairings that
finally reveal what is truly the best in its class: What's
the greatest American beer? The best Elmore Leonard novel? The most
reliable economic indicator? In each bracket five Darwinian
rounds of binary matchups leave a lone survivor; textual
notes explain the details. Experts and subjects include: Ken Jennings on Game Show
Catchphrases; Roz Chast on Animation Characters; Mo Rocca on
Political Hot-Button Issues; Stefan Fatsis on Scrabble
Words; Kurt Andersen on Conspiracy Theories; Jeff MacGregor
on NASCAR Phrases; Will Blythe on Sports Rivalries; Henry
Beard on Latin grammar; the editors of The Bark on Dogs for
the Ages; Jesse Sheidlower on Punctuation; Rick Meyerowitz
on Dodosaurs; and many more - 101 in all. Go forth and adjudicate!
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