[ruination]

He's "the Lance Armstrong of literature."

Haley not only lost a high-profile plagiarism suit against his work in “Roots, but any serious look into the Haley family’s genealogy has found — and I’m being generous — that large portions of what was sold as non-fiction cannot be verified.

[shotgun]

Haley also wrote articles for Playboy Magazine. Strangely, like the book Roots, I never read those either, for one reason, or two!