But Ross and Amter's contribution is to weave together into a single, readable narrative the long and sordid history of the struggle over environmental regulation, and readers attuned to the environmental debates of the 21st century will be struck by the familiarity of the tactics developed by the polluters who came before.
But even the earliest readers were attuned to the story's darkly comic inflections.
"It's more a case of, 'This is what you should do to be most attuned to what the readers want and to the zeitgeist,' " he said.
Only a reader as attuned to realism as Feinberg could have puzzled out so nuanced a defense of imagination in children's lives.
And readers must now be attuned not only to the nuances of the English language but also to the details of computer markup languages so that they can keyboard citations in a format suitable for the O.E.D.'s databases.
Both Paul and Cora have come up in life from humble family origins, and if American readers might not be attuned to the fine points of British class divisions, they will at least recognize the milieu in which Paul and Cora now move: financially comfortable, literate, articulate, self-conscious.
Gordon writes not as a professional biographer, or as a historian, but as a master of the story form, as a careful reader, as a woman attuned to power and longing and as a believer for whom God is a mystery but no stranger.
Left in Dark Times is a book of profound insights, even if it is sometimes tough going for the American reader not always so attuned to the tussles of European politics.
He is particularly attuned to the lower frequencies, a close reader of the Cuban subtext.
Convince the reader that your ear is attuned to the modern vernacular, that your nose sniffs the tang of changing mores, and that your fingers are on the pulse of our time, somewhere around the neck, to better choke the life out of it.
