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...union representing Massachusetts firefighters said yesterday it had convinced WordsWorth Books in Harvard Square to cancel an appearance by a journalist whose articles chronicling the recovery effort at New York’s Ground Zero questioned the conduct of some firefighters who helped clear the wreckage...
...stop at WordsWorth was planned as the penultimate event of a three-week, 20-store publicity tour...
Reprersentatives for WordsWorth, including an official who identified himself as a manager, declined repeated requests for comment as to why the event had been cancelled...
...Robert B. McCarthy, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts (PFFM), said that his group called WordsWorth Wednesday to inform them that firefighters were boycotting the book and would protest the apperance of its author...
...said that WordsWorth then contacted Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the parent company of the book’s publisher, North Point Press, who agreed to release WordsWorth from its commitment to host the event...