Still, this is an eloquent and valuable book.
An eloquent book of personal and public history by a French-born American journalist out to understand the contradictions of his former country.
This is a "sophisticated, even eloquent book," Tamar Jacoby said here in 1995.
He had been in prison for years and used the time to write eloquent and provocative books.
In this eloquent book, Mr. Whynott holds science up to reality.
"The Twilight of Common Dreams" is a more sophisticated, even eloquent book.
Will Durant hailed it as "the most eloquent book in French prose."
That, it seems to me, is the considerable flaw at the heart of this otherwise eloquent and insightful book.
There are reasons, so late in the day, to be cheerful, and this eloquent, wit-struck book is not least among them.
Peter Maass's angry, stinging, profanely eloquent and often painful book would prove you wrong.