Let's Get Him and Ben Yagoda Together in the Studio

Benjamin DeMott's "Whitewash as Public Service," published in Harper's October issue, is now online. Wonder if the NBA nonfiction judges have had a chance to read it yet? As the headline observes, this ain't exactly Yagoda's examplar of nonfiction:

The plain, sad reality--I report this following four full days studying the work--is that The 9/11 Commission Report, despite the vast quantity of labor behind it, is a cheat and a fraud. It stands as a series of evasive maneuvers that infantilize the audience, transform candor into iniquity, and conceal realities that demand immediate inspection and confrontation.