Word: dershowitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alan Dershowitz, chutzpah-laden Harvard Law School prof, listed the following four geniuses...
...Dershowitz is guilty of many excesses, but moral blindness is not one of them. That he leaves to his opponents: Angela Davis, a leader of the American Communist Party, used him as a consultant when she was charged with murder. Acquitted, she vowed to spend the rest of her life defending political prisoners. When she journeyed to Moscow, Dershowitz asked the radical to speak up on behalf of Soviet Jewry. She refused because " 'they are all Zionist fascists and opponents of socialism.' Davis would urge that they be kept in prison where they belonged." Dershowitz's other targets include...
...Semitism in Europe and the Middle East are little more than a catalog borrowed from more capable historians. And his preening modesty belongs in a textbook of self-caricature: "Several years ago, Elie Wiesel flattered me by publicly stating that 'if there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different.' Generous as the assessment is, it is an obvious exaggeration...
...author belongs on the short list of great trial lawyers, and his insights remain essential for understanding the American judicial process. But Dershowitz has a larger subject in mind: his ego. It would have been better to leave the appraisal to others. The man who does his own public relations has more than chutzpah; he has a schlemiel for a client...
BOOKS Alan Dershowitz lives up to the title of his new book: Chutzpah...