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But seven years after McCormick’s death, at 85, here comes his book, in a modest and expurgated form, under the title “Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey.”

He found original versions of manuscripts and restored expurgated words and entire passages which had been subject to censorship because editors, publishers and reviewers deemed them to be obscene or tasteless.

And with the exception of that expurgated Benchley quote, its advertising eschewed pull quotes, focusing instead on the show’s popularity: “Hundreds have seen ‘Abie’ three times or more.

When he tossed out — “expurgated,” he said — about 60 more students five years later, he called them “leeches, miscreants and hoodlums.”

Lindo: There is a tradition of black soldiers being marginalized at best, expurgated at worst.