Annals of Academic Putdowns
An article about new books on Robert Oppenheimer quotes the following zinger:
“American Prometheus” does capture the world in which Oppenheimer established his credentials: thick with future Nobelists, bristling with innovation, cattily competitive. (As one of his fellow scholars remarked about another: “So young and already so unknown.”)
That one’s up there with “This book fills a needed gap in the literature.”