Keeping up with the headlines

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It’s been less than four weeks since North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped charges against three members of the Duke Lacrosse team who were accused of raping a black stripper last year. Next month, Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster, will rush out “It’s Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered” by former Sports Illustrated editor Don Yaeger with Mike Pressler, head coach of the Duke Lacrosse team.

Advance copies of the book are already circulating, and it includes timelines, a “cast” list of all the parties involved in the scandal, as well as indignation on every page. To gauge the tone, just consider the opening of the chapter titled “Who is Mike Nifong?”, which refers to the Durham County district attorney who sought to prosecute the accused players: “Senator Joseph McCarthy persecuted communists; Pharaoh Ramses II persecuted Hebrews; and District Attorny Mike Nifong, well….he persecuted traffic violators. Until, that is, he set his sights on Duke Lacrosse players.”

Simon & Schuster launched Threshold Editions in 2006; the publisher’s “imprint for conservative readers” has previously published books by Mary and Lynne Cheney and L. Paul Bremer.

Nick Owchar