《耻辱之岛》二○○九年出版,《纽约书评》(The New York Review of Books)很快登出一篇书评,认为这是一部严谨的学术著作,涉及一些重要的历史、道德、国家安全及外交政策问题,值得专家和普通读者阅读。书评作者乔纳森·弗里德兰(Jonathan Freedland)特别指出,凡恩教授对迪岛建军事基地前后过程的精细考察,显示美国军方的顽强意志最终冲破民主制度的各种制约,达到其目的;反过来说,如 The Island of Shame, published in 2009, soon debuted in a book review by The New York Review of Books as a rigorous scholarly work on a number of important historical, ethical, National security and foreign policy issues deserve to be read by experts and ordinary readers. In particular, Jonathan Freedland, author of the book review, pointed out that the careful examination of the course before and after the military establishment of Di Island by Professor Vane shows that the tenacious will of the United States military eventually broke through the various constraints of the democratic system and achieved its goal. Conversely,