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My review of David Caute's book on Isaiah Berlin's sabotage of Isaac Deutscher's academic career -- Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic (Yale University Press) -- has been published. 'Before I became a student I naively laboured under the impression that the academic world was a place of disinterested study and civilised behaviour. A short while at college soon disabused me of that illusion. Academe was full of blatant careerism and back-stabbing; the conduct of the political world with which I was long familiar seemed by contrast almost gentlemanly. 'This book deals with a particularly unpleasant example of academic skulduggery: the story of how the liberal philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, prevented Marxist historian Isaac Deutscher from obtaining a key academic post at Sussex University in 1963. Although the story was known, having been revealed in the radical paper, The Black Dwarf, back in 1969, this is the first full-length account of the episode.' Read the rest here < http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/976/review-parallel-lives-and-irrational-jealousy>. Paul F ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
