Moldea v. New York Times, Part 1 of 19

A sudden problem

            Rushing between shows in Cleveland, I called Greg Mowery, my publicist at William Morrow, who had just received an early copy of the September 3 edition of the New York Times Book Review.  Mowery said that a Times sportswriter, Gerald Eskenazi, had given me a bad review.

            After Mowery quickly read brief portions of the review over …