Of the two Professor Dershowitz's book is worse. Tarloff is not a bad writer. He has copped his Coogler mainly because of the book's plot, wherein a White House staffer has an affair with the President. Surely the novelist can be more imaginative, and that Tarloff's wife was a staffer in the Clinton White House casts still more doubt on his imagination. Dershowitz's Sexual McCarthyism is much more interesting.
Stupidity is always more amusing than dullness.
What he has actually achieved is the re-creation of one of the staples of American comedy, the dizzy professor. I personally experienced it a few weeks back when I expressed my reluctance to appear with him on a TV talk show. Even on television I prefer at least fleeting moments of lucidity from interlocutors. The show's producer responded that it was Professor Dershowitz who was reluctant to appear with me. According to Dershowitz, every time we had appeared together in the past I made cruel sallies against him.