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Fancy British Historian Caught In Amazon Review Row

Adrian Chen · 04/24/10 06:21PM

British superstar historian Orlando Figes has admitted to leaving scathing Amazon reviews about fellow historians' books. His brilliant pseudonym: "orlando-birkbeck." (He teaches at Birkbeck, University of London.) This sparked a massive historian fight and lawyers were called. Historians! [Guardian] (pic)