book jacket
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The book jacket features a prominent blurb from Johnson calling the doctor’s treatise: “A gripping tale of corruption and courage that will open eyes and prompt serious questions.”
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025
The book jacket cut out the word "hokey" so the quote read only: "Wisdom combined with good advice."
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023
“Day by day Drew Barrymore is making it,” the book jacket of 1990’s “Little Girl Lost” says.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2023
It’s captivating enough that, as the book jacket notes, President Barack Obama once declared that “everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2021
While reading Plato’s Republic, for instance, I needed to keep looking at the book jacket comments to remind myself what the text was about.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
