Ian
McGowan
asks,
Monday, January 15,
2007, why a Telegraph journalist did not mention another famous gunpoint incident
Historian at gunpoint (not Mr Irving, tho’)
HAVING read your thrilling account of your arrest in
Austria, I was amused to read
Sam Leith‘s Notebook in today’s Daily Telegraph. At first I thought it had to be about you.
” HISTORIAN
IN GUN COP DRAMA,”
said the newspaper vendor’s billboard…,”
it started.
Of course it was actually referring to Prof.
Fernandez-Armesto having a spot of bother with the constabulary [jaywalking] in Atlanta, Georgia.
Leith goes on the say, obviously having never heard of your adventures, “What an absolutely enthralling headline.
It’s the sheer delightful unlikelihood of the juxtaposition that does it. Historians don’t belong in gun-cop-drama news stories.”
Maybe someone should enlighten him.
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