I'm telling you for the last time

A launching author is like a new parent, and I ask the indulgence that is normally accorded both.

It is gratifying that all the reviews of my new book that I have seen so far (A Matter of Principle, published by McClelland and Stewart in Canada, and Random House in the United States) have been fair comment. I understand that it is difficult for reviewers, especially journalists, to separate an evaluation of such a book from previous opinions formed of the author and derived from other events and earlier times; that is, to review the book and not its author. I emphasized in the book that it is also difficult for journalists to appreciate how much or little may be true in a broad prosecution/media assault of the kind that normally launches charges in a prominent criminal commercial case in the United States, such as mine was.

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