Verso authors getting sued

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 21 12:51:06 PDT 1999


Michael Pollak wrote:


>On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Alex LoCascio wrote:
>
> > Man! This isn't the first time something like this has happened!
> > Remember the brouhaha over Cockburn and Silverstein's Washington Babylon
> > and the passages about Larry Pressler? That book they just took out of
> > circulation altogether.
>
>I must have been out of town for this flap. And I've got a copy of
>Washington Babylon to look it up in. So do tell.

To put it gently, the Pressler bits were rather thinly sourced. Verso withdrew the book and pulped the remaining copies, but there were only a few copies remaining in stock.

Doug



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