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July 16, 2020

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Pre-Publication notices by signatories of the Harper’s Letter are raving:

 

“If only I’d read this book before I supported the war in Iraq!”-Paul Berman

 

“If Stalin had read this book, there wouldn’t have been a Gulag!”-Anne Applebaum 

 

“Even better than my own book, DULL AS DISHWATER.”- David Brooks

 

“More provocative than my name!”-Dexter Filkins

 

“A fresh 21st Century answer to THE END OF HISTORY.”-Francis Fukuyama

 

“It’s breathtaking how Bari’s blossomed since she came in second in the Catskills Junior Yenta Competition”-Katha Politt (I came in first)

 

“Katha says this book is even better than our sex life.  Who am I to disagree?”-Steven Lukes

 

“More fun than killing sand-niggers in Iraq!”-Anne-Marie Slaughter

 

“As one Jewish Cancel-Queen to Another, you sure know how to brew up a storm!”-Judith Schulevitz

 

“This book is a wonderful tribute to what it means to be a Jew in America today.”-Michael Walzer

 

“I already sent off a copy to my pal Bill Clinton, and he can’t wait to … meet the author.”-Sean Wilentz

 

“If only Albert Shanker had lived to see the glorious day of this book’s publication!”-Randi Weingarten

 

“If Bari keeps it up, she’ll soon be sharing my Token-Minority office at Harvard Law!”-Randall Kennedy

 

“More fun than trimming the locks of my own self-promoting, navel-contemplating, grandstanding husband Steven Pinker.”-Rebecca Goldstein 

 

“It brought tears to my eyes as I couldn’t help but recall my own airhead youth.”-Letty Cotton Pogrebin

 

“I immediately sent off a copy to Alan who then sent off a copy to Ghislaine.”-Steve Pinker

 

“I wish every member of SDS had read this book when I was President of SDS in 1962.”-Todd Gitlin

 

“The perfect companion to my own bestseller, HOW TO BE A PROMINENT FEMINIST WHEN YOU’VE GOT NOTHING TO SHOW EXCEPT YOUR BANGS.”-Michele Goldberg

 

“I placed it on my coffee table right next to THE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE EAST.”-Cary Nelson