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Article: The Good Booklets.(Review)
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- National Review
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- December 31, 1999
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The Pocket Canons: The Books of the Bible, Authorized King James Version (Grove Press, $2.95 each, $24.95 the set)
Mr. Miles, senior adviser to the president at the J. Paul Getty Trust, is the author of God: A Biography, which won a Pulitzer prize in 1996.
IN time for Christmas, Grove Press offers a boxed dozen small-print, small-sized (4" x 6") fascicles, each containing a book of the Bible in the King James Version and a brief introduction. Nine of the introductions are by novelists. The remaining three are by Bono, Thomas Cahill, and Kathleen Norris-a rock singer, a popular historian, and a memoirist.
The publishing plan evidently allows for ...