Over at The Tablet, Mark Oppenheimer has posted a thoughtful, in-depth profile of Bradley Smith and Mark Weber. The article is filed in four parts. Here are links to each:
Though Oppenheimer remains dismissive of the substance of revisionist argument and clings to a number of rehearsed assumptions about the nature of the project, his treatment of both men is refreshingly human and full of surprises. A few passages made me chuckle.
Bradley's book, The Man Who Saw His Own Liver, is available from Amazon and Nine-Banded Books.
06/30/09 UPDATE: Bradley's first response is here. He asks a question, and reminds us that Oppenheimer's series is actually preceded by a separate article.
By the end of Oppenheimer's series I had become more sympathetic to Weber and less to Smith, which runs counter to my natural confirmation bias.
Posted by: TGGP | June 29, 2009 at 07:40 PM