and also discussed in Ryan Lizza's pathbreaking New Republic article. http://www.tnr.com/d...
Today I've seen two references to those incidents in mass media coverage. One is in a piece on the ABC news site:http://abcnews.go.co...
Earlier this year, the senator's critics started focusing on unflattering stories about him recounted in a six-year-old book by his sister, "Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter," in which she described his youthful bent for violence: "We all obeyed George. If we didn't, we knew he would kill us. GǪ When I refused to go to bed, George dragged me up the stairs by my hair."
He is in trouble not only because of the macaca remark but also because of revelations in the New Republic this year about his schoolboy romance with the Confederate flag and his own sister's depiction of the young Allen as nasty and thuggish. (It is a strange aspect of this race that Webb seems on better terms with his ex-wife than Allen does with his own sister.)
His sister now says (after six years) that the book is a "novelization." In the Lizza article, Allen says of the book that "It's the perspective of the youngest child, who is a girl." I read the entire book (which is well written, entertaining, and heartbreaking). In my opinion, the recollections are too emotional and vivid to be fiction. I don't buy the "novelization" explanation, and I don't think most people will. I also wonder why the sister, who was an adult when her father died, was not allowed by her brothers to speak at her father's funeral, when they all did.