I Just received my copy of "Beyond Chutzpah" by Dr. Finkelstein

[AlamoDemoc]

<snip> from article by Neve Gordon from Counterpunch

"Exposing Grave Moral Distortions"

By NEVE GORDON

It is not everyday that a professor hires a prestigious law firm to threaten the University of California Press, yet for months Alan Dershowitz, Harvard's Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, tried to stop UC Press from publishing Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah. When the Press' director Lynne Withey replied that she believed in academic freedom and would therefore go ahead with the book, Dershowitz sent letters to the university's board of trustees and even to California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, asking them to intervene on his behalf. Following both the trustees' and governor's decision not to get involved, one would have thought that the struggle had ended, but now that the book is on the shelves it seems that a new campaign is underway; this time an attempt to cancel the author's reading engagements for example at Harvard Bookstore and Barnes and Noble in Chicago. So what is the controversy about?

Here's the rest of the article:

http://www.counterpunch.org/gordon10152005.html


Well...I have the book now, in my possesion...so, Mr. Dershowizs can kiss my behind.

[AlamoDemoc]

1. self kick...because more ppl would want to read this book