{"id":1417,"date":"2006-10-16T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.blog-city.com\/case_of_the_missing_stiglitz.htm"},"modified":"2006-10-16T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T20:10:00","slug":"case-of-the-missing-stiglitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2006\/10\/case-of-the-missing-stiglitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Case of the missing Stiglitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"<\/a>I ordered my copy of Rashid Khalidi’s new book<\/a>, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood<\/em>, from Amazon.com. At Amazon, the image<\/a> of the book cover features the obligatory photo of Israel’s separation barrier (or “apartheid wall” as its critics call it), and an endorsment that goes like this:<\/p>\n

“Rashid Khalidi’s extraordinary book is enormously relevant for our times, especially in light of America’s growing involvement in the Middle East.”
\nJOSEPH STIGLITZ, winner of the Nobel Prize<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I made a mental note about the advance praise on the cover<\/em> of the book something that’s not very usual.<\/p>\n

When the book arrived, my eye immediately jumped: the Stiglitz endorsement is missing. I got curious, so I ran his words through Google, and they turn out to be praise for Khalidi’s previous<\/em> book<\/a>, Resurrecting Empire<\/em>. In fact, that exact endorsement figures front-and-center on the paperback cover<\/a> of Resurrecting Empire<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, Stiglitz hasn’t praised Khalidi’s latest book at all. So it’s a good thing the publisher, Beacon Press, has dropped him from the published version of the cover. It’s not a good thing that at all the major points of sale on the Internet, buyers will think that Nobelist Stiglitz has endorsed Khalidi’s Iron Cage<\/em>. Beacon Press should act now to recall the misleading cover image it previously disseminated to Amazon and others. Khalidi should insist on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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