The Johnson book sounds good, if overdrawn. And it's easy to see why Malcolm Gladwell likes it; Gladwell (who I love, don't get me wrong) never met a striking counterintuitive generalization he didn't like.
My idiosyncratic reaction to an earlier NYT article about the Johnson book is here: http://www.robmacdougall.org/archives/2005/04/the_bochco_code.php
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Date: 2005-06-05 03:18 pm (UTC)My idiosyncratic reaction to an earlier NYT article about the Johnson book is here: http://www.robmacdougall.org/archives/2005/04/the_bochco_code.php