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In this political and journalistic mea culpa, a former conservative reporter recants many of the things he wrote in his earlier book, THE REAL ANITA HILL, which sought to undermine the credibility of the main witness at the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. Brock reveals the sources of much of the damaging material that appeared in that book, and examines what he sees as the extreme mistrust in the rightwing media (and among Clarence Thomas's circle of friends) and their search for sympathetic journalists. Brock names names and and reveals serious ethical lapses of his own, which included frightening off a woman who had information that seemed to corroborate Hill's charges by saying he would expose something in her personal life.
| Size | | Length: | 336 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The book is consistently articulate and very funny from time to time. It undeniably holds the reader's interest. But it is also disconcerting in unintended ways. Brock brings a strange boastfulness even to passages in which he is supposedly raking himself over the coals, and he litters the book with derogatory comments about other men's appearances that have ambiguous relevance to the narrative at hand....BLINDED BY THE RIGHT is valuable in its vivid depiction of a take-no-prisoners era--perhaps in retreat, perhaps merely in quiescence--when genuine political debate took a back seat to playground bullying and much of journalism, not just Brock's, descended to a gossipy and lascivious low. Brock flourished in that muddy gutter, which is why it clings to him still."
New York Times Book Review - Frank Bruni (03/24/2002)
"In sum: You cannot fully understand this fevered era without reading this book."
Nation (04/08/2002)
"It seems clear that Brock never understood, and apparently still doesn't, the way genuinely objective reporting is supposed to work....BLINDED BY THE RIGHT brims with salacious gossip, now about conservatives rather than liberals...."
New York Review of Books - Jane Mayer (06/27/2002)
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