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According to Wiener??s article, which was posted online on June 23, Dershowitz’s lawyers sent letters to University of California demanding that the press not publish the book, and Dershowitz himself asked California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and top administrators at the University of California...
...cursory glance through Wiener??s footnotes reveals that almost all of the reporting for his chapter on Thernstrom was done more than 13 years ago. Wiener published an almost identical account of the incident in The Nation in September...
...least—although his reporting on the Thernstrom controversy is more than a decade old—Wiener??s reporting on the topic is thorough, if outdated. The same cannot be said for his next chapter, a poorly-researched piece that slams Ulrich and several other venerable scholars...
...truth, Wiener??s journalistic transgressions run far beyond laziness. He violates a basic tenet of journalistic integrity by printing explicitly “off-the-record” comments, which are by definition not for publication in any form. Wiener says that he received an e-mail from James Lindgren, a Northwestern University law professor, headed “OFF THE RECORD, CONFIDENTIAL.” Wiener??s revelation turns out to be a dud: Lindgren’s e-mail contained only “lists of anti-Bellesiles academics who could be called...
Unfortunately, TNP’s note—remarking that Historians in Trouble “might be of local interest”—understated Wiener??s reach. His book has received positive press in national publications and has garnered praise from well-known writers, including Howard Zinn. Wiener??s prose is fluid, but he veers off course when he fires salvos at Thernstrom, Gray, Katz, and Ulrich. The Crimson is proud to be among those lambasted by Wiener. We’re in good company...