Lipstadt’s Dog-and-Pony Show (reviews)

Reviews of Lipstadt’s latest book on the Amazon website

Newspaper
reviewers are, like the publishing
industry, preponderantly Jewish, and
therefore partisan. What do
non-partisan readers think of
Lipstadt’s book on her trial for libel?
Our website contributor LN comments:
“You’ve posted a reader’s review from
the B&N site. Out of curiosity, I
called up Lipstadt’s book on
Amazon.com. There were 15 reviews, 13
of which were clearly partisan (either
top marks or bottom, 1/5 star or 5/5
stars) and therefore useless.

But there
was one 3-star review and one 4-star
review from two people who actually
read the book and gave honest reviews.
(Both mention sloppy editing!) Here are
fair excerpts.”

[3 stars out
of 5] ” THERE is something
off-putting about the tone of the book,
as she comes across as humorless and
self-centered, without much
self-awareness, not promising in a
first-person memoir, and the book could
have been much better edited. From the
beginning, Ms.

Lipsdadt seems to relish
ordering her underlings around, and
even has her grad students gathering
material for her next book proposal.
The book downplays the part played by
Yehuda Bauer, who urged Lipsdadt
to beef up the material on Irving in
her book; her compliance instigated the
suit. There are a few howlers also,
such as ‘despite the fact that three
publishers were vying for my manuscript
on American press coverage of the
Holocaust, UCLA denied me tenure.’ . .
.

Twelve questions to put to Prof.
Lipstadt the next time you see her…

“Ms. Lipstadt did not say a word at
the central event, the Irving trial in
London, and her position as a
figurehead sadly comes through clearly.
What exactly did all those trips to
London accomplish, except running up
the tab?

Her British publisher,
Penguin, who footed the multi-million
dollar tab for her defense, deserves
more credit for their contribution, and
the author seems stingy and ungrateful
here. (Evans
and Guttenplan
tell how as many as 40 attorneys were
working on this case at one time).

And
do we really need to know her exercise
regimen and that she worked out daily
during the trial?”

[4 stars out of 5] ” AS
interested as I was and am in the topic
of Prof. Lipstadt’s book, I nonetheless
found myself slogging through it and
thinking, ‘This is a fascinating
article for The New Yorker that
has been made into a 350-page book.’ .
. .

Could have used one more read by a
sharp-eyed editor.

Dossier
on Deborah Lipstadt

Lipstadt
trial index

Trial
transcripts

Lipstadt’s
praise for Binjamin Wilkomirski, the
(ASSHOL)
fraudster and liar:
“Deborah Lipstadt
has assigned [Wilkomirski
‘s]
Fragments in her

Emory
University class on Holocaust memoirs.
When confronted with evidence that it
is a fraud, she commented that the new
revelations ‘might complicate matters
somewhat, but [the work] is
still powerful.'”

Twelve
questions to put to Prof.

Lipstadt the
next time you see her…

Controversy
April 2001 over Emory’s choice of
Deborah Lipstadt as graduation speaker;
won’t get honorary degree

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