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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin resigns from Pulitzer Prize board
AP via Boston.com ^
| 5/31/02
| Diego Ibarguen
Posted on 05/31/2002 12:07:00 PM PDT by GeneD
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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.''
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doriskearnsgoodwin; plagiarism; pulitzerprize
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:07:03 PM PDT
by
GeneD
To: GeneD
Who wrote her letter of resignation?
To: GeneD
Wow. A lib did something correct? There must be a catch.
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To: GeneD
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.
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:11:10 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: GeneD
The historian who couldn't keep her notes in order.
Good riddance.
To: GeneD
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."
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:11:44 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: Blue Screen of Death
Who wrote her letter of resignation?
Perhaps the wording strongly resembles that of one Richard Nixon?
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:12:37 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Pharmboy
Note to Imus: drop her like the Pulitzers did.Like he dropped Barnacle?
To: Blue Screen of Death
LOL
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:15:07 PM PDT
by
wheezer
To: TroutStalker
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.
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:15:32 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: GeneD
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!)
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:19:01 PM PDT
by
YaYa123
To: b4its2late
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.
To: GeneD
...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"?
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:25:58 PM PDT
by
nina0113
To: GeneD
As historians are known to say, "Sheeeeeeeeees(Doris) history!"
To: Blue Screen of Death
Who wrote her letter of resignation? LOL!
To: GeneD
" 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.
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:27:16 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
To: Blue Screen of Death
>>Who wrote her letter of resignation?<<
LOL!!!
To: TomGuy
" 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!".
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posted on
05/31/2002 12:27:49 PM PDT
by
albee
To: NativeNewYorker
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.
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