Remember those winter mornings when you cursed your office’s less-than-adequate heating system, only to grumble and sweat out the weak A.C. come summer-time? Well, imagine this: You’re in the middle of a 3,000 mile solo trek through the Baja desert, unable to quench your thirst as you discover that the last of your water ration has leaked from its bag. But wait! What’s that? Up ahead you spot a wooded area, telegraph poles, civilization! You start running at full speed, even in your weakened state, only to discover that the telegraph poles are dead leafless palm trees and the “civilization” is just an abandoned fishing camp littered with empty bottles and fish carcasses. Your oasis is a mirage… and the temperature is 100degrees.
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Hailed as “one of the most important studies on the Holocaust to have appeared in years,” by the Curator of Stanford University’s Judaic and Hebraic Collections, Samuel Kassow’s riveting and monumental work WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY? was all but ignored when published by an academic publisher in July, 2007. However, when Carol Janeway, a Senior Vice President of the Knopf Group, came upon the lone national rave review in The New Repulic exclaiming that WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY is “The most important book about history that anyone will ever read,” she quickly began an easily won crusade to republish Kassow over here.