But good analysis of policy and politics does not take the reader very far.

Yet to take readers through so much history does seem to require a bit more in the way of a conclusion.

This takes the reader to the beginning of the affair.

He then takes the reader into the history of skepticism.

The author takes the reader through 60 difficult defensive deals.

And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

Roth's skill is to take the reader back to his time.

But the creative writer's goal is to take the reader by surprise with his or her choice of language.

Their explanations sometimes don't take the reader all the way to real understanding, however, stopping short before enough information has been given.

Writing that was "downtown" often took readers to uncomfortable places.