Buy This Banned Book

By the Light of Burning Dreams continues to pile up glowing reviews -- this one in the National Book Review (an online journal founded by former New York Times editorial board member Adam Cohen and former National Book Critics Circle president Elizabeth Taylor) calls the book by my sister Margaret and me "an inspiring chronicle." The review then adds: "No hagiographers here; the Talbots point to the failures and imperfections in their characters, making their legacies human and real."

Our book also just received enthusiastic reviews (A+, 5 stars) in Berkeleyside, the leading online journal in SF's East Bay, and the Seattle Book Review. The San Francisco Chronicle and all the primary book industry trade publications also gushed over the book.

But still no reviews in the leading East Coast publications.

What is going on with the New York Times? I understand the blackout of my book The Devil's Chessboard, which had the temerity to name the Times as a key part of the U.S. propaganda machine during the Cold War. Am I still being punished for crossing acceptable ideological lines?

You'd think that the corporate liberal press would embrace By the Light of Burning Dreams, with its unflinching assessment of radical leaders of the 1960s and '70s. But the book also endorses their revolutionary mission, while probing their flaws.

Perhaps most disturbing to the cultural gatekeepers, By the Light of Burning Dreams advances the notion that we need another American Revolution to pick up the fallen flag of the last one.

Dare to be inspired. Dare to be provoked. Make By the Light of Burning Dreams a New York Times bestseller (like the banned Devil's Chessboard) -- even if the Times won't acknowledge the book's existence.