Reply to A Reviewer
Against The Current vol. 146

http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2829
Date Written:  2010-05-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2010
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13663

My old friend Paul Buhle has developed a neat general formula for reviewing the books he is out of sympathy with. Paul begins by making laudatory comments and concludes by expressing overwhelmingly negative judgments. But he has gone too far in his review of my The Rousing of the Scottish Working Class by falsely accusing me of using “a club to beat [E.P.] Thompson.”