Not well known to me. Can you support that claim? I don't want to post bad information.
I suspect this is what StoneWall Brigade was referencing.
http://www.forbes.com/2002/02/27/0227goodwin.html
As the link indicates there was an apparent plagiarism issue with one of Goodwin’s books, something many of us amateur historians became aware of years ago when the possible issue became public knowledge. I don’t know whether her possible past plagiarism had any impact on the book you chose.