Re: [Marxism] A dishonest John L. Hess obituary

[Jacob Levich <jlevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis is right, I now see. I was so astonished the Times gave him a
favorable and reasonably hefty obit, after slighting him for decades, that
I didn't notice what was left out.

By the way, before his death John completed a manuscript that is a
companion volume to My Times. It covers the years 1978-present, mixing
collected pieces with memoirs. He had yet to find a publisher, and that was
the thing chiefly on his mind when I last talked to him.

If anybody reading this is connected with a publishing house that might
bring it out,  I would be happy send you the ms.

jake


At 02:49 PM 1/22/2005, you wrote:
> Dear NY Times ombudsman,
>
> I can see John Hess sitting on a cloud glowering at your sanitized version
> of his life:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/obituaries/22hess.html
>
> As you folks know only too well, John was a high-profile critic of
> American foreign policy and social injustice at home. Indeed, his recently
> published memoir has just a chapter each on food and the art world, but
> the rest of it is about American bullying abroad and plutocracy at home
> and the role of the NY Times in maintaining the status quo through its
> connections with the Dean Rusks and Robert Moses of the world.
>
> So, ironically, your dishonest obituary helps us to remember what he spent
> his life fighting against.
>
>
> Louis Proyect
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