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Edited by Wendy Wagner and Rena Steinzor. 304 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $75 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). ISBN 978-0-521-85520-4 (cloth); 978-0-521-54009-4 (paper).

The "pursuit of scientific truth, detached from the practical interests of everyday life, ought to be treated as sacred by every government, and it is in the highest interests of all that honest servants of truth should be left in peace." Albert Einstein's profound admonition, directed at fascist governments and written as a plea to Alfredo Rocco, Minister of Justice and Education under Benito Mussolini, captures elegantly the spirit of the book edited by Wendy Wagner and Rena Steinzor. This compendium of 12 scholarly essays suggests that history is replaying itself in current politics in the United States, as is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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