[Vision2020] Crawford vs. Wilson

[Dan Carscallen]

Ms. Crawford, from what I read in Vera White's column last week, does have
her own publishing company/is her own publisher, for what its worth.

DC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Nick Gier
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Crawford vs. Wilson


Greetings:

I hesitated a bit before I bought Christina Crawford's book today, but I
checked to see if it had a footnotes, bibliography, and an index, and it
did.  Now I will see how see does.  But whatever her failings are, I'm sure
she has not done the following:

1.  She has not started a school and set up her own accrediting agency to
legitimize it.

2.  She would always maintain that a college degree should be required of
any teacher.

3.  Even though she is trying her hand at medieval history, she would never
pass herself off as an historian at a fake history conference.  She would
not expect to be invited to a real history conference either.

4.  Her publisher would have more sense than to ask her to contribute to a
monograph series that it has set up for the best historical scholarship.

5. She, and thousands of other amateur writers, could have written a far
more honest book on Southern slavery than Wilson and Wilkins have.

6.  If she gets criticism about her book on the Inquisition, I'm confident
that she will not avoid the points made by calling her critics names.  She
may not succeed in defending herself but at least she will have preserved
her integrity.

7.  She would not shamelessly set up her own publishing company in order to
get her books printed.

I could go on, but my point should be an obvious one.  Wilson and his
cohorts have set up a school and a college that claims academic
credibility, but they have proved themselves to be intellectual frauds.

Nick Gier


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