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Amazon is taking advance orders for Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor and our colleague, KC Johnson. Even on advance orders the book is selling very well (#265 when I last looked). It has jacket endorsements by New York Law School's Nadine Strossen, the president of the ACLU, and by Michael Kinsley, George Will, ABC's Jan Crawford Greenberg, and former Attorney General William P. Barr. Tuesday 4 September is the official release date, but Helen Reynolds already has a review up at Dr. Helen. KC's schedule is filling up with public appearances this fall in Pittsburgh, Durham, Boston, and Washington, DC.

At Acephalous, our colleague, Tim Burke, addresses the suggestion that KC's Durham-in-Wonderland fostered an anti-intellectual commentariat. KC's other critics occasionally argue that injustices are common in the American legal system and that time and energy is best used in defense of victims who are without resources to defend themselves. An outrageous case in point is the Jena 6. The only history blogger I know who's given them significant attention is elle, phd (and scroll down). Thanks to Manan Ahmed, check out their website and, below the fold, a YouTube that explicitly compares the Jena 6 to Duke's lacrosse players: