The New Republic
21 October 1996


DAVID IRVING is traveling through the United States this month to promote his new

of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. He has had to lug his own copies across the Atlantic. In April, after New York Times columnist Frank Rich, among others, denounced Irving as “Hitler’s Spin Artist,” Thomas McCormack, the chairman of

St. Martin’s Press

, suddenly canceled publication of Irving’s latest book,

A British historian who views Nazism with nostalgia, Irving has begun to depict himself as a victim of

an international conspiracy

aimed at suppressing him and his works.