Nicholson Baker

I have read Nicholson Baker before. His 2001 book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper was the beginning of many a debate while I was in library school. Nicholson argued that by dismantling collections of bound newspapers and "brittle" book and microfilming them, libraries were trashing irreplaceable records. Hmmmm. It's tough to find things to criticize libraries about, but he found something! (Debatable as it may be....)

Well Baker found a new controversial theory to defend - involvement in World War II. In his new book, Human Smoke, he "questions the popular notion of the just war and indicates that Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt share blame with Adolf Hitler" according to an article on CNN. Nothing like a book to stir the pot!