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Article: The Anita Hill case. (fallacious logic underlying uncomplimentary reviews of David Brock's 'The Real Anita Hill,' a book about Hill's sexual harassment charges against US Supreme Justice-designate Clarence Thomas) (Editorial)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 7, 1993
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After admiring reviews in the New York Times and Washington Post, The New Yorker has unloaded the first attack on David Brock's The Real Anita Hill. The review, written by two women who are working on a competing book on the subject, begins by attacking Mr. Brock's argument that the key testimony of Judge Susan Hoerchner, a friend of Anita Hill, could not possibly be true in the way it was interpreted. Judge Hoerchner told the FBI that Miss Hill told her, in the spring of 1981, about a supervisor, whom she assumed to be Clarence Thomas, who had been sexually harrassing Miss Hill. However, that placed the alleged harassment some months before Miss Hill went to work for Mr. ...