Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin resigns from Pulitzer Prize board

AP via Boston.com ^ | 5/31/02 | Diego Ibarguen

[GeneD]

NEW YORK (AP) Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has faced accusations of plagiarism over a 1987 book, has resigned from the Pulitzer Prize board, Columbia University announced Friday.

In a letter to board Chairman John Carroll, Goodwin said, ''after the controversy earlier this year surrounding my book, `The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,' and the need now to concentrate on my Lincoln manuscript, I will not be able to give the board the kind of attention it deserves.''

[Blue Screen of Death]

Who wrote her letter of resignation?

[b4its2late]

Wow. A lib did something correct? There must be a catch.

[Pharmboy]

Er, they left out the fact that the plagiarism charge was leveled at other of her works besides the one mentioned.

Maybe she needs more time to supervise her three assistants who write her books...what a leftist phoney she is. I hope we never have to see her x42-apologizing face on TV anymore.

Note to Imus: drop her like the Pulitzers did.

[TroutStalker]

The historian who couldn't keep her notes in order.

Good riddance.

[Publius]

Doris has always had problems with the research for her books. Several decades ago she caught hell from the historical community for her book on Lyndon Johnson. The general complaint was, "She was too close to her work."

This was academic doublespeak for, "Doris was Lyndon Johnson's mistress while she was writing the book."

[TomGuy]

Who wrote her letter of resignation?

Perhaps the wording strongly resembles that of one Richard Nixon?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Note to Imus: drop her like the Pulitzers did.

Like he dropped Barnacle?

[wheezer]

LOL

[Bahbah]

As a parent of 3 girls I did't lay down many rules, but those that I did I believe they have heeded. First among them was don't lie. It is never, never worth it in addition to it being wrong.

[YaYa123]

Inquiries into plagarism charge is now moot....no doubt a prime reason why Goodwin resigned.

Chris Mathews and Tim Russert have had Goodwin on in the last few weeks, an obvious attempt at rehabilitating their pal. You know, the old, "people will forget if we put Doris back on the air as an expert on the presidency, and pretend the plagarism charge doesn't exist" gambit.

"Goodwin said the copying was accidental, the result of a longhand note-taking system that didn't distinguish between her own observations and passages from other texts." So lame!!! Any professional writer would be able to distinguish between their own writing and "other texts". Either Doris thought she could get away with copycatting, or she has little elves writing her books for her. (Damn interns! You just can't get good help these days!)

[NativeNewYorker]

I've heard her on Imus recently, and, like Clinton, she haughtily dismisses the notion that she deliberately did something wrong.

She pretends to be surprised at the fuss over what she claims to be innocent mistakes.

The idea that she should be *embarrassed* to sit in judgement of others, in her role as a Harvard supervisor, or until now, on the Pulitzer Prize committee, never seemed to cross her mind.

I used to make a living as a writer. I've authored a book and written or edited countless articles. There is ZERO probability I would be unaware of my name going out over someone else's material. ZERO.

[nina0113]

...the need now to concentrate on my Lincoln manuscript, I will not be able to give the board the kind of attention it deserves.''

Since she's actually having to write the Lincoln book herself.

Is there any documentation of the LBJ "thing"?

[Highway55]

As historians are known to say, "Sheeeeeeeeees(Doris) history!"

[KC_Conspirator]

Who wrote her letter of resignation?

LOL!

[mrsmith]

" need now to concentrate on my Lincoln manuscript"

It is going to take all of her concentration.
There has been so much written about Lincoln, by so many people.

[SerpentDove]

>>Who wrote her letter of resignation?<<

LOL!!!

[albee]

" Who wrote her letter of resignation? Perhaps the wording strongly resembles that of one Richard Nixon?"

You only said that because her resignation letter included the phrase:

"I am not a plagurist!".

[b4its2late]

She makes me ill looking at her and hearing IMUS suck up to her in the morning. She made her name when slick was in heat and it's a good thing she was outed.