Chutzpah indeed.

If you have attended Harvard Law School, or seen the movie Reversal of Fortune, you know that modesty is not one of Alan Dershowitz's more conspicuous waits. Those who have been denied these experiences can, however, get a feeling for the man from this line in his recent book review in The New York Times: "I wondered how [the author] ... managed to capture the ambiance of this orthodox Jewish neighborhood in which I grew up, until I noticed that he lists my book, Chutzpah,' as one of his sources."