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Sender: "J. L. Bell" <JnoLBell@compuserve.com> To: RevList <Revlist@egroups.com>, H-OIEAHC <H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU> Delivered-to: H-OIEAHC@h-net.msu.edu Original-recipient: rfc822;saillant@vmh.cc.wmich.edu The AP reports that Knopf is choosing to let ARMING AMERICA go out of print after finding that Michael Bellesiles's proposed revisions didn't do enough to answer criticism of his work. Here's the dispatch in the WASHINGTON POST: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23841-2003Jan7.html> The book's editor, Jane Garrett, is quoted as saying, "I still do not believe in any shape or form he [Bellesiles] fabricated anything. He's just a sloppy researcher." The story is also interesting in revealing sales figures for the book. Over two years, Garrett says, the book sold approximately 8,000 hardcover copies and 16,000 paperbacks. This was, we recall, after a front-page story in the NY TIMES before publication, a cover review in the NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW, reviews in many other leading magazines, a major prize (now rescinded), and a great deal of ongoing news coverage, good and then increasingly bad. J. L. Bell JnoLBell@compuserve.com
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