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Throughout the book, Rosenblatt interweaves the views of those Faculty members, administrators and students who were at Harvard during that period, liberally quoting such luminaries as John Kenneth Galbraith '50, James Q. Wilson '63, Martin H. Peretz '65 and Al Gore '69, including former Crimson executives Michael E. Kinsley '72 and James M. Fallows '70. One can sense the months spent conducting interviews and amassing varying perspectives to present a balanced portrait of how the riots were perceived by everyone, from leftist student revolutionaries to conservative academics...
These sessions were facilitated by a professional non-profit management consultant and were attended by myself, Anne Peretz, Arnold Hiatt, Frank Duehay, Ken Reeves, Henry Fernandez, Robert Kiely, Ali Asani, Bill Graustein, Judith Kidd, and appropriate student leadership. Ultimately this committee approved a plan with a 15 to 1 majority--Graustein opposing--which was submitted to the undergraduate PBHA Inc. governing board and approved. It called for an elected PBHA Inc. Board of Trustees comprised of students and non-students--with the non-student membership to be recruited in roughly equal parts from human service, donor, alum, academic, and Harvard...
Finally, writes Peretz, "Sack...is still trying to prove that there were two Holocausts, one by the Nazis against the Jews, the other-after the war-by Jews against the Germans." Peretz truly calls this delirious history, but the delirium isn't mine but his, for I've never called what Jews did in 1945 a Holocaust. Indeed, I specifically write on the second page of An Eye for an Eye, "This was no Holocaust or the moral equivalent of the Holocaust." --John B. Sack...
...more truths inhere in Peretz's letter to The Crimson. It's true, as he claims, that Martin Kessler, the publisher of An Eye for and an Eye, my book about the Holocaust and what happened after it, is now deceased. And therefore it's not easily checked that Peretz called up Kessler and ranted against An Eye for an Eye but never, never told him, "I will destroy this book." He can claim this with total confidence that Kessler won't write a letter contradicting...
...writes Peretz in The Crimson, "is this a book with which scholars think they need to grapple." This, too, is true, since every single scholar who did his or her homework in the German federal Archives or Polish archives confirmed what I wrote in An Eye for an Eye, confirmed it in three major newspapers and one major newsmagazine. Others who did their lessons and who confirmed what I wrote are the former foreign editor of The New York Times and the many researchers for "60 Minutes", whose "once-over-lightly," as Peretz calls it, took them eight months...