Augmenting the stories, copiously researched footnotes include thumbnail histories: the Cedar Bar, Roosevelt Island, the W.P.A., Black Mountain College, diagrams of de Kooning's studio, genealogies.
In the course of his devotedly researched footnotes, Hearn sometimes nods into critical banality: "Much of the charm and wit of The Wizard of Oz relies on Baum's irony and amusing incongruity"; the Cowardly Lion "proves Ernest Hemingway's dictum that courage is grace under pressure".
The inescapable conclusion, well bodyguarded by meticulous research and footnotes, is that in the Nixon era the United States was, in essence, a "rogue state".
"The inescapable conclusion, well bodyguarded by meticulous research and footnotes, is that in the Nixon era the United States was, in essence, a 'rogue state.' " DUNE: House Harkonnen, by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
I joked to my friends: No Greek, no research no footnotes!
They're enthusiastic about the low cost of electronic delivery, the ease of researching hyperlinked footnotes, and the potential for quick feedback from readers.
It is a meticulously researched and footnoted biography, intent on straightening out chronologies and pinning down apocryphal stories.
Whereas Finkelstein's study is exhaustively researched and footnoted, and has been written in a precise and judicious style, Bartov dismisses the book as "a novel variation on... 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' "and, moreover, as "indecent... juvenile, self-righteous, arrogant and stupid".
The companion website at www.meangenes.org offers a "Notes and cited research section" with footnotes for the sometimes vague or oblique references in the text.
The Chicago style of formatting research essays uses footnotes at the bottom of your page rather than in-text parenthetical citations.
