![]() ![]() ![]() He agitated against fascism in Spain and racism in South Africa wrote a fine book, Brutal Mandate, about a trip he took to South-West Africa worked in reform Democratic politics in Manhattan. For the next thirty years he was a restless samurai of American liberalism, moving from cause to job to campaign. In 1950, at the age of twenty-one, Lowenstein became president of the National Student Association. Allard Lowenstein went to the Ethical Culture School and to Horace Mann to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose liberal president, Frank Graham, became his mentor, and where he got involved in civil rights and student politics and to the Yale Law School. His father, who gave up a professorship of biochemistry at Columbia to join the family restaurant business, was an active socialist and a prominent supporter of Jewish educational charities. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. Lowenstein, born in Newark, New Jersey, on January 16, 1929, and assassinated in New York City on March 14, 1980, was a remarkable politician. For Richard Cummings has committed, with the collaboration of his publisher, Grove Press, what is more than a series of mistakes, something closer to the attempted murder of a dead man’s honor.Īllard K. Still, there are times when one must try to set the record straight and seldom has the effort been made with such cause as in the present case. But how many people outside the book industry know who Clifford Irving’s publisher was? Apart from a lawsuit, there is little a person about whom an inaccurate book has been written can do and if that person is no longer living, even the courts are closed. Most of us know what newspaper Janet Cooke wrote for. Nor do careless publishing houses pay much of a price in reputation. Publishers occasionally promise a corrected second edition but they usually don’t regard themselves as responsible for the accuracy of what they publish accuracy is something for authors to worry about. The victims of mistakes made in books are less lucky. The correction, if it is made at all, straggles in days or weeks later, and is printed in an obscure part of the paper, under an unexciting heading like “Editor’s Note.” It is an imperfect procedure at best. People who get written about in newspapers know that a correction never catches up with a mistake. ![]()
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