Bossavit's book comes after McConnell's reply, and goes into more depth than the essay McConnell is replying to. Personally, I found the book more convincing. And having read what Bossavit had to go through to verify McConnell's references, I'm not convinced Greg Wilson did the same.

Rather than try to defend someone else's words, though, I'll just direct you to the book. You're going into a lot of detail critiquing quotes from an end-of-chapter summary, which isn't fair to Bossavit's work. I hope you'll read the book, because I'd like to hear your critique of the full work.