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Title: Grammatical Theory in the United States : From Bloomfield to Chomsky by Peter H. Matthews, S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. Dressler, C. J. Ewen, R. Huddleston ISBN: 0-521-43351-7 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 30 September, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $79.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Give it a chance...
Comment: The comments in the above review are overly caustic. This is a detailed history, somewhat mundane at parts, but always informative. In regards to the comments on the holocaust controversy let me say this: Chomsky is a jewish intellectual, his parents were Hebrew teachers. He is a self-proclaimed agnostic and no doubt does not embrace the Jewish faith. However, the French intellectual you are indirectly referring to (who wrote a particularly racy tract saying that no formal extermination program existed in Nazi Germany), was defended by Chomsky on grounds of freedom of speech, as the book was being heavily censored. Chomsky has said "If we don't believe in freedom of speech precisely for our enemies, then we don't believe in it at all." The issue here is freedom of speech, not the extermination program. I also recall another quote of his: "It is a sad disservice to the the victims of the holocaust to adopt the maxim of their masters." It makes this reviewer wonder if a) if you even finsihed the book before your jurassic biases took over, b) if you have even read any of Chomsky's actual work, and c) if you are even remotely familiar with Chomsky's contributions to psycholinguistics.

Rating: 1
Summary: Don't waste your time
Comment: Does anyone take Chomsky seriously? This book is worthless. By the way, Chomsky's remarks about the Holocaust denial book were not "misconstrued," and to my knowledge, he has never repudiated them. In fact, on the subject of the reality of the Holocaust (perhaps the most heavily documented historical event ever to take place), he declared himself "an agnostic." Why should anyone listen to a person who would say such a thing?