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ELIZABETH RAMSEY BIRD
Aug 16, 2012ELIZABETH RAMSEY BIRD rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I recently visited with my sister in Beverly Hills and as we walked through the streets of Hollywood passing everything from a Guinness Book of World Records museum to a Ripley's Believe It Or Not I came to the not wholly unexpected conclusion that there is very little difference between the American appetite for the spectacular today versus the American appetite for the spectacular a hundred or more years ago. Jim Murphy knows this. The Giant may now be just another roadside attraction, but Murphy's book is the kind of text that we can only hope will stand the test of time.