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I haven't read McLean's book. And I don't know much about her. But her book is
doing quite well. When I checked yesterday on Amazon, as she asked people to
do, she had 96 Amazon reviews, with an average rating of four stars. From
Amazon, I learned that the book is published by a top trade press, so she is no
doubt getting good publicity help from them. Many top liberal scholars have
heaped praise on it, and one review is from Oprah's magazine. She is a chaired
professor at Duke, a school with a great deal of academic prestige. Given all
of this, I don't see how the libertarians and the Koch Brothers' minions can
destroy her reputation. John Bellamy Foster has and is facing much worse at
the University of Oregon. Hell, in my teaching career, I faced harassment,
red-baiting, threatening phone calls, etc. At Monthly Review, I have met
comrades whose careers were destroyed, who had to leave the country to find
work, who were tormented by all levels of government. We've published books
by comrades who have put their lives on the line in radical struggles around
the world. So at least at this point, I can't get too exercised about professor
Maclean's plight. I will continue to follow this, and as I learn more, perhaps
I will temper my perspective.
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