[lbo-talk] U Mich dropping Pluto

[Doug Henwood]

The University of Michigan Press has stopped distributing Pluto Press  
books, because of the outcry over Joel Kovel's book, Overcoming  
Zionism. The director of the press, Phil Pochoda, was my agent on The  
State of the USA Atlas in 1993-4. I just sent this to him. I'd urge  
everyone else to join in.

Doug

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To: Phil Pochoda <pochoda at umich.edu>

Dear Phil Pochoda -

Way back in 1993 and 1994, when you were my agent on The State of the  
USA Atlas, I got to like and respect you. But I've now forgotten that.

What a disgraceful, cowardly decision to drop Pluto. This is the  
approach of a major university press to freedom of inquiry? You  
should hang your head in shame.

Is this the kind of thinking that Lee Bollinger carried from Ann  
Arbor to Columbia?

Doug Henwood
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