Beacon Press plans a first printing of 40,000 copies, an unusually large press run for an academic treatise.
His very first academic treatise was his doctoral thesis in 1915, where he examined the constitutional right of workers to form unions.
Memoirs, prestige lectures and academic treatises have all added to the argument.
But "Fire on the Rim" is no boring academic treatise.
Well, maybe that works with an academic treatise, but it won't work here.
Gravestones have been the subject of academic treatises and even guidebooks.
Much more intriguing are the other Oscars who keep showing up in everything from mainstream movies to academic treatises.
He wrote a substantial academic treatise, Hypomnemata, as well as theological works.
A critical appreciation of Albert is liable to read like an academic treatise on stand-up comedy.
But it has produced a stream of memoirs, academic treatises, oral histories and novels.