The perfect setting
for saving money.
for of every major newspaper's
book section was, he says, "per-
fect." Examples of reasons giv-
en by editors not to review the
book included it "got lost with all
those other Holocaust books" and
it "ran afoul of our end-of-year
scheduling, when we do our best-
of lists and children's books."
The immediate context for Mr.
Lombardi's suspicions was the
"devastating" review in the New
Republic, which impugned Mr.
Sack's research and interpreta-
tion. Especially damning to Mr.
Lombardi was this admission
from Leon Wieseltier, the maga-
zine's literary editor: "It's one of
the stupidest books I've ever read,
and I frankly resolved to do as
much damage as I could."
The long-term context for Mr.
Lombardi's suspicions was the
reception magazines gave Mr.
Sack's original version of the
book, which started out as a com-
missioned piece for GQ. Although
GQ's editor, Art Cooper, had
called the article "the most im-
portant" in the magazine's histo-
ry," the magazine refused to print
it. The New Yorker then wouldn't
even look at it; Rolling Stone re-
turned it with the comment, "I'm
sure you'll understand" and Es-
quire nixed it, calling it "too
bloody."
Finally, the Village Voice pub-
lished it last March.
Of magazine and book editors'
timidity, Terry McDonell, who no
longer is Esquire's editor, told Mr.
Lombardi: "They're scared, and
I'm scared, too."
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