A comment on a very ignorant 4-star Amazon review of a 1-star book, William D. Cohan's THE PRICE OF SILENCE. Everyone should be reading Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson's UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT instead of this Cohan book which Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal rightly called dishonest.
Grandjete says:
Did you read any of the "caustic" reviews here? If so, you will
note that the best of them list, in the aggregate, dozens of specific
weaknesses, biases, oversight, and misleading statements from "Price".
It would be refreshing if you, or anyone who recommends anyone buy this book, actually address some of these specific criticisms with logical argument and verifiable facts, instead of broad, unsupported assertions of the book's quality. It would be very easy to find these criticisms, as dozens are cited to specific page numbers in "Price" (see, for example, the review here by Mark Wylie, and the review by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Hershel Walker).
If you can. You would be the first, you know.
It would be refreshing if you, or anyone who recommends anyone buy this book, actually address some of these specific criticisms with logical argument and verifiable facts, instead of broad, unsupported assertions of the book's quality. It would be very easy to find these criticisms, as dozens are cited to specific page numbers in "Price" (see, for example, the review here by Mark Wylie, and the review by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Hershel Walker).
If you can. You would be the first, you know.
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