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Title: The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story by David Brock ISBN: 0-02-904656-4 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (18 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: valuable only as example of
Comment: this book is of course dreadfully bad as journalism; read it only as a window on the recent upsurge of rightist political fantasia, and as a supplement to brock's latest, *blinded by the right*.
in reading his latest, he will explain what the score is for this one, what he called "character assassination."
i am somewhat disturbed by some of the other reviews, here, though....witness brock: "i could see that my reportorial method for *the real anita hill* was shoddy, not only in the sources i had trusted, but in the obvious fact that i had missed significant evidence that showed that hill's testimony was more truthful than thomas' flat denials after all. my version of the thomas-hill controversy was wrong, my belief in it as truth was a delusion. perhaps the errors of *the real anita hill* could be attributed to journalistic carelessness, ideological bias, and my misdirected quest for acceptance from a political movement. in the review of *strange justice*, however, to protect myself and my tribe from the truth and consequences of our own hypocrisy, smears, falsehoods, and cover-ups, i consciously and actively chose an unethical path. i continued to malign anita hill and her liberal supporters as liars. i trashed the professional reputations of two reporters for reporting something i knew was correct. i coerced an unsteady source, i knowlingly published a lie, and i falsified the historical record" (brock, d. *blidned by the right* ny: crown, 2002. p. 248).
as can be seen here, the author of *the real anita hill* is admitting that it is not true.
Rating: 1
Summary: The New Yorker got it right
Comment: just found this in the May 24, 1993 issue of "The New Yorker" Magazine: a review of Brock's book by Jane Meyer & Jill Abramson includes...
"All nonfiction books contain errors, but this book is unusual in the extent to which its key arguments are based on them."
"At a certain point, a knowledgeable reader begins to wonder how many of these errors are innocent and how many are deliberate distortions."
"Once the sources are evaluated and the contradictory evidence is considered, Brock's arguments evaporate into an amorphous cloud of ill will."
...and the reactionaries of the right still hold fast to their hatred of reality. [Why is this book of lies still in print?]
Rating: 1
Summary: where are the apologies from the right?
Comment: In his new book, Blinded by the Right, here's in part what Brock says about his writing of this book:
".... Tainted by bias, and already committed to a flawed interpretation of events in print, I got no closer to the truth in the book.... I failed to weigh my findings against the fact that all of my sources were pro-Thomas partisans..... I had no access to Hill's supporters, and therefore no understanding of their motivations, no responses to any of my charges, and no knowledge of whatever incriminating evidence they might have gathered against Thomas that was not introduced in the hearing..... As for the traits ascribed to Hill that might have motivated her to lie -- ambitious, willful, and even vengeful -- they were all culled by me from the Thomas camp. Everyone I spoke to HATED that woman."
It is truly sad, and frightening, that not only was the book published, and believed, but that, as far as I'm aware, none of the conservatives who continued to rip Anita Hill to shreds based on the falsehoods contained in this book have come forth to apologize to her. Partisanship seems almost always to trump truth and plain human decency.
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Title: The SEDUCTION OF HILLARY RODHAM by David Brock ISBN: 0684837706 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill ISBN: 0385476272 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin ISBN: 0743204131 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Ending the Vietnam War : A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War by Henry Kissinger ISBN: 074321532X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Case Against Hillary Clinton by Peggy Noonan ISBN: 0060393408 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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