RECKLESS DISREGARD: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time.
Pp. [viii]+246(last blank); demy 8vo; qr. black cloth over white papered boards, spine and upper board lettered and ruled in silver, bottom fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly browned at edges; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1986. First edition. *'In the winter of 1984, an extraordinary series of events brought two remarkable libel suits to trial in neighbouring courtrooms in Manhattan. . . In both courtrooms, a renowned general was suing a media giant for libel: William Westmoreland contended that he had been libelled in a CBS documentary that claimed he had led a "conspiracy at the highest levels" to conceal crucial estimates about enemy troop strength in Vietnam; and Israel's Ariel Sharon was suing Time for having published a story claiming that Sharon had discussed the need to take "revenge" with Lebanese Christian leaders just before a Phalangist massacre of Palestinians during the Lebanese War' [wrapper blurb]. Item #183111
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