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...representatives and candidate for U.S. Congress; Richard L. Berke, national political correspondent at The New York Times; Gaston Casperton, former governor of West Virginia; Jill Hanson, national political director of Dole-Kemp '96; Robert C. Hayes, former majority whip of the North Carolina House of Representatives; and Lisa McCormack, publications and online communications director for the Republican National Committee...
That was a good, if belated, idea. But McCormack's claim that nobody at St. Martin's was aware of Irving's reputation prompted widespread incredulity. A prolific writer with a knack for gaining access to original source material, Irving has also been for some 20 years a notorious and very public apologist for Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. He has said there is "not one shred of evidence" that 6 million Jews were murdered by the Germans during World War II. In Hitler's War (1977) he made the somewhat contradictory argument that if there was a Holocaust...
...event last week that rattled the U.S. publishing world. After several weeks of growing protests, St. Martin's Press announced that it had canceled its planned release next month of British historian David Irving's biography Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. St. Martin's chairman Thomas J. McCormack denied that his house had succumbed to "coercion," which included a swelling tide of unfavorable press stories, criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and, according to some employees, telephoned death threats. Instead, McCormack said, a few of the protesters had prompted him to take a closer...
...this, McCormack insists, "we were ignorant, and to the extent that that ignorance is a failure on our part, then we deserve some of this heat." St. Martin's is not the first U.S. publisher to yank a controversial book off its list. In the most celebrated recent instance, Simon & Schuster decided in 1990 not to release Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho after advance reviewers complained about its voyeuristic scenes of women being tortured. (Knopf later bought the discarded manuscript and published it in paperback.) But the St. Martin's case is more complex because it involves a work...
...recovery. She has even grown an inch--to 5 ft., 10 1/2 in.--and that seems to have given her even more leverage. The psychological scars, of course, were much harder to get over. She spent countless hours with sports psychologist Jerry Russell May, but it was finally Mark McCormack, the head of the all-powerful International Management Group, who cajoled her out of her isolation. Of the stabbing, Seles says, "I've put the whole thing in a box. If I need to open it, I will, but I hope I don't have...