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Goodwin admits more material lifted
Boston Globe ^ | 2/24/2002 | David Abel

Posted on 02/25/2002 9:11:31 AM PST by Cuttnhorse

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Doris Kearns Goodwin, the prolific historian who recently acknowledged appropriating a few passages from another author's work for a book she wrote in 1987, told her publisher last week that the same book contained scores of quotations and paraphrases taken without attribution from other writers.


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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator

To: Cuttnhorse
Ole Doris' willingness to lie and cheat is exactly what endears her to the leftist elites.
22 posted on 02/25/2002 10:07:01 AM PST by OldFriend
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To: Bold Fenian
My sentence isn't clinically detailed because I don't have my history library with me at work. If you're going to go the nit-pick route, be my guest.

I'm sure the Nazis would have been merciful to the Catholic, God-fearing, church-going, freedom-loving residents of the Emerald Isle. Not.

23 posted on 02/25/2002 10:10:24 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
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To: Bold Fenian
I think that you need to better distinguish between factual revisionism (which needs to go by a different moniker) and the more typical liberal-PC disinformation/crappola that we see so much of.
25 posted on 02/25/2002 10:17:43 AM PST by The Electrician
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To: Bold Fenian
Like I said, if you want to vent with detail, be my guest.
26 posted on 02/25/2002 10:22:30 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
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To: Bold Fenian
Ah, yes, the knowledge that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington owned slaves has greatly enlightened historians to declare that they do not deserve our respect as Founding Fathers. Of course, the fact that slavery was an institution as old as mankind, and the complexities of the economic imperatives that fostered it, do not rise to the level of relevance.

Spare me the apologies for "revisionism" -- the omissions from public school history books, due to politically-correct "revisionism," has not fostered the enlightenment of our children, or the collective historical knowledge of our society.

27 posted on 02/25/2002 10:23:17 AM PST by browardchad
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To: rs79bm
Will that happen?? Of course not. But we can only hope.
We can sure harrass the heck out of her...I went to the Boston Globe's site from the original article and sent a note to the author thanking him...also suggested he visit FReep to read some of the comments.
28 posted on 02/25/2002 10:24:55 AM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: eureka!
It seems to me that historians have been taking notes and quoting other authors for hundreds of years before the PC. Is Doris just SO stupid that she couldn't do it correctly? This screams to me of intentional plagerism. . . or complete idiocy. Do liberals think THEY won't get caught?
29 posted on 02/25/2002 10:33:21 AM PST by SouthCarolinaKit
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To: Cuttnhorse
in all I've read on this....this bitc& alwya has a "but" in her explainations.......meaning the ends justify the means...if...the media will cover the tracks.....that kind of "but"........imagine if this was true of say Bush,or Newt,or any conservative.......then ask ,what if it is found when Hillary pens her book too........lastly,see how no disclosure of the money Doris was charged with ?
30 posted on 02/25/2002 10:36:46 AM PST by cactusSharp
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To: Cuttnhorse
It would now seem incumbent on Goodwin to demonstrate that her entire career isn't based on plagiarism.
31 posted on 02/25/2002 11:01:42 AM PST by onedoug
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To: SouthCarolinaKit
Liberals think that either they won't get caught or that, if they do get caught, nothing will be done to them. Generally, they're right, or at least they were right under Clinton. Let's see what happens now.

Theodore Pappas's book Plagiarism and the Culture War convicts Martin Luther King of massive plagiarism, and King's reputation seems not to have suffered. Quite the contrary.

33 posted on 02/25/2002 11:10:47 AM PST by aristeides
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To: Bold Fenian
Hey, I've got a question about Joe Kennedy, if you know about his career at the London embassy. Why did he lift Tyler Kent's diplomatic immunity so that the Brits could try him (in secret)?
35 posted on 02/25/2002 11:16:33 AM PST by aristeides
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To: Bold Fenian
BTT
37 posted on 02/25/2002 11:49:38 AM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: Cuttnhorse
Any of you know of David Halberstam? He is another historian that cannot get it right. He was one of the people that presented Al Gore to the public in the last Dem Convention. He re-spouted the lie that Al's father lost his Senate seat because he voted for the Civil Rights Act. He is either misinformed or is lying. Either way, a piss-poor historian.
38 posted on 02/25/2002 12:00:04 PM PST by 7thson
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To: SouthCarolinaKit
Re#29 True, however, methinks the screeching Goodwin was just lazy and rolled the dice on not getting caught. I am glad she was....
39 posted on 02/25/2002 12:00:50 PM PST by eureka!
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To: Bold Fenian
RE: Joe Kennedy's Appeasement Stance

Check out Hostage Of Fortune (Amanda Smith) or PBS American Experience or any number of sources. Unless they're all revisionism, old Joe doesn't look that good or that smart.
40 posted on 02/25/2002 12:02:33 PM PST by pt17
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