KIrkus, 1970; This is an account of Fiedler's three brushes with authority
and its backlash from 1933 on when as a youngster in Newark, N.J. he engaged in
a radical protest, "the horseshit box on Bergen Street." A phrase
cited to illustrate what Philip Rahv called Fiedler's stock in trade-his
"epatisme." Something he of course shares with Mailer, as well as an
unquestionably articulate striking power. And as well as a talent for reversing
the old maxim-"Qui s'excuse, s'accuse" so in assuming the guilt of
his own failures and limitations he immediately acquires a certain
invulnerability. 

His second difficulties occurred after his fairly long
revolt against the president of Montana State University where he was teaching,
which was followed by the backlash of "Jew Commie Go Home." But then
he gets down to the more notorious nittygritty, the third episode, which was
particularly featured in Time, the baseless (so he says and seems to prove)
raid on his home and charge that the Fiedler menage was holding a pot party.
This, prefaced by his activities at the University of Buffalo where he was
Faculty Adviser for LEMAR (pro the legalization of marijuana), was also
attended by weeks of secret surveillance, harassment, and the installation of a
domestic spy in the person of a young freaked-out waif who also planted the
package of marijuana which was found on the premises (and not smoked by any
member of the family).

&nbsp;The radical
aftereffects (the cancellation of his insurance and a teaching post abroad) all
follow along with the legal follow-up of the case now up before the Supreme
Court (privacy invasion). Fiedler, a much more subdued Fiedler, no longer the
"street corner voice," but the victim of circumstances and the
climate in which he lives, has a good deal to say about not only the academic
communities in which he has figured but also the whole scene. No doubt about it
he's made a statement.

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