Hitchcock's is the third biography of the Lambs to appear in the past couple of years, and capably rescues Mary from the footnotes of her brother's story.
An example, to which Arendt refers in a footnote to her definition of power, is the student protests at Berkeley and elsewhere at the end of the 1960s.
In a footnote of his 152-page ruling, he discounted fears that invalidating such patents would decimate the industry.
But the woman who back in 2010 first used the phrase "if the euro fails, Europe fails" knows that a Grexit under her watch would form more than just a footnote in any summary of her leadership.
And this frog, in turns, seems less of a puzzling pop-up if you consider that the woman's eyes eventually notice a footnote at the bottom of her page.
"We are in danger of being swamped by Asians," she said in her maiden speech in Canberra.Mrs Hanson and her party have already become merely a footnote of history.
On the evidence of her footnotes, she hasn't had an interview with Hillary Clinton since 1992, a fact that is perhaps explained by a profile she published in Vanity Fair that year portraying the First Lady as an armor-plated control freak.
I am especially happy to note that Zuk uses footnotes to cite all of her references, which is not often the case in books aimed at a general audience.
A complex story of personalities accompanies this, as well, including Duchamp's pessimism about the art world and Dreier's devotion to Theosophy (and, buried deep in a catalog footnote, her support of Hitler).
One might wonder to what extent Simpson regards these odd women as a footnote to the big characters of her three previous books, blurry faces briefly glimpsed as the family car speeds by.
