Richard Lingeman- [Executive Editor of The
Nation]-Noted biographer of Theodore Dreiser; as Monocle's
Executive Editor, he helped create the hoax.
Marvin Kitman- [Television critic of Newsday]-News
managing editor at Monocle and the publication's candidate for
President in 1964, he also helped shape the idea for the book.
E.L. Doctorow- [Novelist: Ragtime, The Book of
Daniel, The Waterworks, etc.]-Dial Press Editor-in-Chief at the time of
the book's original publication, he helped shape the book and colluded in the
hoax by concealing the book's satirical nature from his own sales force.
John Kenneth Galbraith- [Economist] He perpetuated the
hoax by adopting the pseudonym Herschel McLandress ("a noted psychometrist")
and praising the book as authentic in a prominent review that appeared in the
Washington Post and Chicago Tribune.
Colonel Fletcher Prouty- A national security aide in the
Kennedy Administration (and the model for the Donald Sutherland character in
Oliver Stone's JFK), he continues to believe the report is authentic
and cited it in his memoirs.
Willis Carto- White supremacist whose Noontide Press,
Liberty Lobby and Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review, were
named by author Lewin in a 1992 lawsuit for copyright infringement when Carto
allegedly published the now-discontinued, bootleg editions of the book.
