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Title: Bad History
Review: The late Gore Vidal wrote a whole essay, entitled "Bad History," that skewers this book and its authors. Vidal refers to the book as "this curiously insistent racist tract."He writes, "One of the hallmarks of the truly bad historian is not so much the routine manipulation of the stats as the glee with which is done, sad and sober though he tries to appear, crocodile tear forever clinging to nose tip. The Therns' Introduction is high comedy ..." Vidal actually had dinner with the authors right after the Rodney King beating, and he recalls Mrs. Thern awkwardly defending the LA policemen who mercilessly beat the late Rodney King. I have no desire to read the book, but I think you should read Vidal's essay, which appeared in "The Nation," April 20, 1998.
