PLAGIARISM, again. It seems to happen in waves, like high-school shootings. Three or four in a row, then a lull, then another batch, until they all run together in the mind and it becomes hard to tell one from the other.
The latest dustup stars popular historians Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin. I’ve never read Ambrose, but Goodwin interests me because I reviewed what may turn out to be the only book she’s ever written that she didn’t plagiarize: her memoir. I forget the title but it was about growing up as a passionate fan of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. She really is an expert on baseball and I gave her credit for that, but I attacked her on two other counts.
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