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It is a little known fact that in the summer of 1971, I worked as a concrete inspector for the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory in New York City. If you want to find out more, including not only a definition but a PICTURE of a slump test, follow the link below. More news
My latest book - Memoir: A History
Publishers Weekly, starred review of Memoir: A History: “Yagoda, biographer of Will Rogers, presents a spirited account of a form of writing that since its inception has been one of the most contested and most popular.
Other books by Ben Yagoda
A delightful book full of scholarship yet free of the hideous jargon and leaden prose that readers have learned to dread in such works... Learned and witty.
Boston Globe
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