The REAL ANITA HILL [Hardcover]

David Brock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 12, 1993

Millions of Americans were riveted to the spectacle of a Supreme Court nominee--a black conservative--charged with sexual harassment by a former female employee. Not since the no-holds-barred assault on Robert Bork has the nation been so gripped by a political melodrama. Now journalist David Brock argues that Hill's testimony was a desperate and cynical hoax.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: Free Press; First Edition ~1st Printing edition (April 12, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0029046556
• ISBN-13: 978-0029046555
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,749,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars had to give it 5 stars, April 2, 2011

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Allan Brown "Carolina_Alf" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real Anita Hill (Paperback)

Had to give 5 star review so it would be read next to the clueless conservative reviews that hold this up as an indictment of the American left, despite the author himself admitting it was a hatchet job paid for by the Heritage Foundation. Its ironic that Brock, vilefied by the right for media matters would be held up here as hero. As Stephan Colbert said so aptly "reality has a liberal bias"

44 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars valuable only as example of, December 1, 2002

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cecil (nacirema) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Real Anita Hill (Paperback)

this book is of course dreadfully bad as journalism; read it only as a window on the recent upsurge of rightist political fantasia, and as a supplement to brock's latest, *blinded by the right*.

in reading his latest, he will explain what the score is for this one, what he called "character assassination."

i am somewhat disturbed by some of the other reviews, here, though....witness brock: "i could see that my reportorial method for *the real anita hill* was shoddy, not only in the sources i had trusted, but in the obvious fact that i had missed significant evidence that showed that hill's testimony was more truthful than thomas' flat denials after all. my version of the thomas-hill controversy was wrong, my belief in it as truth was a delusion. perhaps the errors of *the real anita hill* could be attributed to journalistic carelessness, ideological bias, and my misdirected quest for acceptance from a political movement. in the review of *strange justice*, however, to protect myself and my tribe from the truth and consequences of our own hypocrisy, smears, falsehoods, and cover-ups, i consciously and actively chose an unethical path. i continued to malign anita hill and her liberal supporters as liars. i trashed the professional reputations of two reporters for reporting something i knew was correct. i coerced an unsteady source, i knowlingly published a lie, and i falsified the historical record" (brock, d. *blidned by the right* ny: crown, 2002. p. 248).

as can be seen here, the author of *the real anita hill* is admitting that it is not true.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "A little nutty and a little slutty", October 20, 2010

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Lee - See all my reviews

This review is from: Real Anita Hill (Paperback)

Brock famously described Anita Hill as "A little nutty and a little slutty".

Regardless of your opinion on Hill's testimony, how can you take seriously a book that uses this kind of language to describe a woman?

Professional and objective journalism wouldn't use this kind of degradation even it were proven 100% that someone was maliciously lying. It's supposed to be about facts not insults.