[KB] "Gregory Clark's" Book and Article

[Edward C Appel]

For one scholar to rise to the top in multiple, seemingly unrelated disciplines, it would likely take a superman/woman.  (Hey, like Burke!)

The "Gregory Clark" at issue, I've found out, is an economist at Cal Davis.  Time for Amazon to look at their list and check it twice.



Ed  
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On Mon, 2/24/14, Jack Selzer <jls25 at psu.edu> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [KB] "Gregory Clark's" Book and Article
 To: "Edward C Appel" <edwardcappel at frontier.com>
 Cc: kb at kbjournal.org
 Date: Monday, February 24, 2014, 2:05 PM
 
 Greg Clark is also a pseudonym of
 Clark Kent's.
 
 
 
 
 
 Jack Selzer
 Paterno Family Liberal Arts Professor
 Department of English
 Penn State University
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 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Edward C Appel" <edwardcappel at frontier.com>
 To: "Jack Selzer" <jls25 at psu.edu>
 Cc: kb at kbjournal.org
 Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 5:00:58 PM
 Subject: Re: [KB] "Gregory Clark's" Book and Article
 
 Thanks for setting me straight, Jack.  The reason I
 surmised that OUR Greg and THIS Greg were the same guy is,
 Amazon or whatever is confused, too.  Our Greg's Burke
 book and The Son Also Rises study from Princeton are listed
 under the same "Gregory Clark."
 
 I wonder who the Gregory Clark is who wrote that Times
 article?
 
 Thanks, Jack, for the link to the Malcolm Cowley
 stuff.  We're on safe Burkean ground there!
 
 
 
 Ed  
 --------------------------------------------
 On Mon, 2/24/14, Jack Selzer <jls25 at psu.edu>
 wrote:
 
  Subject: Re: [KB] "Gregory Clark's" Book and Article
  To: "Edward C Appel" <edwardcappel at frontier.com>
  Cc: kb at kbjournal.org
  Date: Monday, February 24, 2014, 12:55 PM
  
  Actually, OUR Greg Clark (BYU) is NOT
  the author of The Sun Also Rises Etc. Nor is he the author
  of the ancestors article. But our Grag Clark is
 nevertheless
  still a busy boy: he does have another KB book coming out
  soon from U of Chicago Press (no less), and assuming his
  paper/panel proposal is accepted, he'll be at the KB
  Conference in St Louis this summer.
  
  In other news, check out this reference to another
  Burke-relevant item:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/books/the-long-voyage-a-collection-of-malcolm-cowleys-thoughts.html?_r=0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jack Selzer
  Paterno Family Liberal Arts Professor
  Department of English
  Penn State University
  15 Burrowes Building
  University Park, PA  16802
  (814) 865-0251
  fax:  814-863-6834
  web:  www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/l/jls25/
  (this email is confidential; its contents should not be
  shared without permission)
  
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Edward C Appel" <edwardcappel at frontier.com>
  To: kb at kbjournal.org
  Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 3:15:14 PM
  Subject: [KB] "Gregory Clark's" Book and Article
  
  Burkophiles,
  
  After the service yesterday at the U.U. Church of
 Lancaster
  (PA), I went across the street to the Chestnut Hill Cafe
 to
  get coffee and read the Sunday Times, as is my wont. 
  The lead article in the Sunday Review section was
 entitled,
  "Your Ancestors, Your Fate: Surnames Reveal That Social
  Mobility Is Much Slower Than We Think," by an author named
  Gregory Clark.  Clark said the research and findings he
  discussed in the piece were the result of work by
  scholars/scientists at Harvard and Cal Berkeley, yet Clark
  gave indication that he was involved in the study,
  also.  I found the information so important and useful,
  I wrote some quotes all over my church bulletin, in case I
  couldn't come by a copy at, say, Barnes and Noble, where I
  knew the NYT was on sale---if their copies had not already
  been bought.
  
  Not the case.  I got my Sunday Times, print edition,
  the "Sunday Review" in front of me as I write.  Also by
  my side is Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on
 a
  Theme from Kenneth Burke, a book by one Gregory Clark. 
  Could it be, I queried, could this "Gregory Clakr," author
  of "Your Ancestors, Your Fate," be OUR Gregory Clark,
 Burke
  scholar extraordinaire, so gifted a teacher he had several
  students of his deporting themselves with great insight at
  the Clemson Conference, 2011?
  
  I googled the matter and found that our Gregory Clark has
 a
  new book out, from Princeton University Press, entitled,
 The
  Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social
  Mobility!
  
  If anyone, including Clark himself, can clue me in further
  on the research project so compellingly summarized in
  yesterday's paper, and surely expanded on in the book from
  Princeton U. P., I'd be much obliged.
  
  Really, really interesting.
  
  
  
  Ed 
  
    
  
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