Press Article
05 April 1996
CHASTENED executives of St. Martin’s Press this week halted publication of a controversial new book by David Irving after the company was besieged by angry telephone calls about the historical biography that even the company’s chairman concluded was “inescapably anti-Semitic.”
Dunne said that he agreed with the decision, but not because he was disturbed by the book’s contents. “I was the first one to suggest that we haul down the flag on this one,” he said, adding that with mounting publicity about the book, “There’s been all this mud-splattering on innocent people, horrible phone calls and death threats. Orders to our college department were canceled.” Dunne said he himself had received several anonymous death threats.