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Title: Kostler needs a better "Boswell"
Review: Koestler was the one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, and one of its profoundest writers.Unfortunately, Cesarani is neither great nor profound. He is a narrow-minded, wretched hack who does a politically correct hatchet job on Koestler, besmirching his reputation as the giant that he was. The biographer brings his notorious reputation as a character assassin to his greater subject. He is also a borish scribbler who dangerously considers freedom of speech to be "a relic of 18th-century liberalism".Kostler needs a better "Boswell" than this petty mouse that would toss into the ashbin 300 years of hard won freedoms. Koestler writings were about those freedoms and the dangers stooges, such as Cesarani and other fellow travelers, muster against those freedoms.
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