Rushty's 'The Darkest Time'

When rushty was under siege, the likes of tom wolfe and christopher hitchens stood up defend him. The leader of that literary pack was susan santag, who was then president of pen america. And she arranged for the book to be read in public. That courage wasn't an abstraction, especially to some independent booksellers. Consider the heroism of andy ross, the owner of the now shuttered cody's books in berkeley,. which carried rushty's book and was bombed shortly after the fatoi was issued. After the bombing, ross gathered all his staff for a meeting. He told them he had a hard decision to make. Here