Here are the corrections I will be making in future printings. Readers are invited to suggest others.

  • On the first page, with Eisenhower's speech, my mind meant 1964 but my fingers typed 1952. That one hurts.
  • p.2 Bush was carrying his copy of BIAS in January 2002, not 2001
  • p.21 Substitute the word "blue" for "red."
  • p.42 Jennifer Grossman is the name of the former MSNBC blonde pundette from whom Laura allegedly borrowed her leopard-skin skirt. Jennifer Fitzgerald is the former long-time aide to ex-President George H.W. Bush who, according to The Washington Post, "served the president in a variety of positions."
  • pp.78-79 The count I did here of the pages of Drudge's book, was originally inspired by another count in a review by G. Beato. While both the research and the prose are entirely my own, Mr. Beato has asked for a footnote. His review appeared in The Washington Post on October 9, 2000, p.C02.
  • p. 85. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is not defunct. I was thinking of the Olin Foundation. Moroever,
    William M. Hammett, former head of the Manhattan Insittute, has written me a long letter explaining his differences with my interpretation of events relating to the publication of "Losing Ground" and the Institute's role in promoting it. I plan to re-examine the evidence in light of his letter and make revisions as necessary in the paperback edition of the book.
  • p.208 President Bush's exact words were: “I can hear you, and the rest of the world hears you, and the people -- (cheers and applause) and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon”
  • p.221 Substitute "Fox Newswatch" for the misnamed, "Fox on Media."

  • p.222 Baker and Botts was not founded by James A. Baker. The law firm's history stretches back to 1840, when Peter Gray first hung his shingle in Houston . The firm eventually became Baker & Botts after Walter Browne Botts and James Addison Baker, great-grandfather of...current partner James A. Baker III, joined the partnership."
  • p.242 The Weekly Standard's first issue did not appear in April of '1996. It was the fall of 1995.
  • p.252 The name of the organization headed by Grover Norquist is "Americans for Tax Reform."
  • Note: The book appears to contain an egregious number of typos. I appreciate the efforts of those who have written to point them out. I'm not listing them, however, here because they do not materially affect the argument.

 

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