Robert Kee wrote a book, Error of Judgment.
"I no longer have any compunction about identifying two of the men involved, who are now dead … but the man described in my book as the 'young planter' is still alive, and I will not name him," Mullin writes, referring to his 1986 book Error of Judgment, about the bungled police investigation that led to the conviction of innocent men known as the Birmingham Six.
His own work, Chunqiu fanlu ("Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals"), however, is far from being a book of historical judgment.
Hence the awestruck name, Domesday Book, or the Book of the Judgment Day, since (in the words of the monk Matthew Paris) "it spared no man, but judged all men indifferently, as the Lord in that great day will do".
Wesleyan University psychologist Scott Plous describes an experiment in his marvelous book The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making.
In his new book, "The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust," Lawrence Douglas, associate professor in the department of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College, claims that Arendt's view of a trial's purpose was plain wrong.
In Avicenna's literal commentaries on the philosophical corpus, most of which are lost, metaphysics represents the section about which we are best informed by either Avicenna himself or his disciples (e.g., The Available and the Valid, Al-Ḥāṣil wa-l-maḥṣūl), or by the surviving portions (e.g., Book of the Fair Judgment, Kitāb al-Inṣāf).
Not at all, says George Taber, author of the book Judgment of Paris, and the only journalist who attended the '76 tasting (he was a reporter for Time magazine).
Douglas, himself the author of an academic book called "The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust," knows this terrain well and can be refreshingly unsanctimonious about the politics of war memorials.
Despite this one serious lapse of judgment, the book is likely to stand out for many years as the most detailed, dispassionate and comprehensive account we have of the war for Palestine.
