Verso authors getting sued

Chuck0 chuck at tao.ca
Wed Jul 21 13:10:37 PDT 1999


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> 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

This is really disturbing news, "WB" is a great book. Would it be worthwhile to put the text on the web?

-- Chuck0

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