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By K.C. Johnson

I admit that before I purchase a book from Amazon, I tend to look at the reviews; I?ll rarely purchase a book that has quite negative feedback. Radley Balko first commented on the disparity between the overwhelmingly negative response the Cohan book received from Amazon reviewers (51 of the 75 Amazon reviews are 1-star) and the puff-piece comments from reviews in most of the mainstream media.The negative reviews clearly captured Cohan?s attention; he has complained about them in a couple of press appearances. On C-SPAN, he offered the following remark: ?All one has to do is go on to Amazon and see already that I?ve amassed, you know, 25 one star reviews even the book hasn?t been out a week and it?s a 600 page book, so I?m pretty much guessing that not many of those one star review writers have read this book...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 12, 2014 (boomark / email).