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Article: Crusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David Durk.

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May 1, 1996
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Does this break the record for conflicts of interest in a single book review? I know and admire both the subject of this biography and its author. So you're not getting an objective review, but you are getting an honest opinion: This book is a thoroughly deserved vindication of a surpassingly brave and honest man. It's also a hell of a fme book.

David Durk had two micro-seconds of national fame around 1970. An Amherst graduate serving as a New York City police officer, he traveled to bitterly anti-war, anti-police college campuses trying to recruit students to become police officers. He had some success, perhaps because students sensed the presence of someone with ...

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