Books: Retrial

THE DREYFUS CASE (400 pp.)—Guy Chapman—Reynal ($5).

"About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right," T. S. Eliot once wrote, "and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong." The Eliot dictum applies just as handily to the great controversies of history, among which the Dreyfus case ranks high. British Historian Guy Chapman would like to change the conventional way of being wrong about the case, not by suggesting that the French artillery captain...

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