I was involved as anyone in the European history search and know a good deal about it and the candidates. I don't know whether it is worth hacking over that ground now. But I do know that for the first two years of his stay at Brooklyn College that almost every faculty member and the chair thought him one of best new members in two decades. Now the so-called "Concerned CUNY Person" is retrospectively making up all kinds of rubbish that is untrue, dishonest, and reprehensible, and doesn't even have the guts and integrity to put her/his name at the end of all that anonymous tripe. Let the person stand forth and put her/his name down and document these charges and then those of us who know how to write history with a critical understanding of sources will answer and put our names down.
Leonard A. Gordon, Professor Emeritus of History, Brooklyn College
by Leonard A. Gordon on December 4, 2002 at 9:47 AM