After five years of vainly trying to explain to all and sundry why George W. Bush is not Hitler in cowboy boots, I have decided not to waste any more breath. Once upon a time, I believed it was possible for people of opposing views to have a friendly discussion. The hysterical response to Dubya and Rummy and Condi has changed all that.
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Paul Berger is a staff writer at The Forward. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The (London) Times, The Daily and Guardian.co.uk.

Jan
23

On Anti-Americanism

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Clive Davis was in fine form yesterday.

On anti-Americanism:

After five years of vainly trying to explain to all and sundry why George W. Bush is not Hitler in cowboy boots, I have decided not to waste any more breath. Once upon a time, I believed it was possible for people of opposing views to have a friendly discussion. The hysterical response to Dubya and Rummy and Condi has changed all that.

And on publishing:


In my days as a gatekeeper, I spent about six months in a Bloomsbury office, goggling at the ineptitude of the stuff that came through the letter box, often with breathless recommendations from top-flight agents. One then-unpublished first novel — an historical tale about Garibaldi and the Risorgimento — had already been optioned by an extremely famous Hollywood producer. Apart from the inept prose and plotting, it seemed to me deeply unpromising that the author never seemed able to decide how to spell “Risorgimento.”

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