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Today’s #MisinformationNation thread (3 days til publication!) is about numbers.
It might not be interesting if you have published a book, but I think I would have liked to read this thread while I was writing the book.
It might not be interesting if you have published a book, but I think I would have liked to read this thread while I was writing the book.
First, length: the book has 110k words (726k characters, 1,733 paragraphs).
In Word, that worked out to 312 pages of text and 80 pages of endnotes (double spaced/Times New Roman/12). When typeset, it worked out to 226 pages of text (with one illustration) and 37 pages of notes.
In Word, that worked out to 312 pages of text and 80 pages of endnotes (double spaced/Times New Roman/12). When typeset, it worked out to 226 pages of text (with one illustration) and 37 pages of notes.
By the way, I was surprised by this! I expected it to come out well into the 300s in print. Honestly, I had no idea how long it would end up being until I saw it.
It's four days until the publication date for #MisinformationNation!
Today's thread is about the biggest anxiety I have about the book.
Probably not a great idea to tweet about this just before it comes out, but you know how it is when you've had a half beer on a Friday evening
Today's thread is about the biggest anxiety I have about the book.
Probably not a great idea to tweet about this just before it comes out, but you know how it is when you've had a half beer on a Friday evening
I think I’m slightly heretical among some print historians because I’m really skeptical about how many people actually read print sources in early America—especially newspapers.
People who study the American Revolution often insist that people imbibed their big ideas about republicanism, liberty, etc from newspaper essays. They often describe newspapers as a particularly democratic medium, available to everyone.
