A book my friend Gene Shalit sent me the other day [is] called appropriately enough “Nice Guys Finish Seventh.” … If you want to know more of who didn’t say what — including a whole list of things that Mark Twain never said — get the book.
Booklist
Keyes’s research unearths interesting, often surprising facts about who said what when — as well as enough errors in standard references to suggest his volume deserves a place in most quotation collections.
Seattle Times
Lively, informed…Reading this is great fun.
Internet
Ralph Keyes once wrote a book called Is There Life After High School? which proposed that all the prom queen / football hero types peaked early. High school was the pinnacle of success, Keyes said, and it was down the tubes after graduation. Keyes also theorized that the geeks and nerds were late bloomers who …
The Arizona Republic
… remains one of the few books to deal with the sociological aspects of high school. Doug Carroll, The Arizona Republic
The Arizona Republic
Remains one of the few books to deal with the sociological aspects of high school. Doug Carroll, The Arizona Republic, July 4, 2000