>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> >
> > All one needs to do is read 10 or so reviews in scholarly journals of
> > scholarly historical works (the good ones by the good historians) to
> > find out that it is probably absolutely impossible to avoid the kind of
> > errors of fact which, if focused on, make one look like an idiot or a
> > liar.
> >
> > Carrol
Does anyone remember David Abraham? He was a left wing Princeton asst prof of History who was essentially run out of the profession by a cabal of right wing Germanists who objected to his thesis that Hitler had the support of the German capitalist class. His book contained a number of errors--unlike their books of course!--and these were magnified into charges of incompetence or dishonesty. He went to law school and is now a law prof at the U of Miami. I heard him on an NPR Sat am quiz show this summer . . . .
jks
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