Historians In Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, And Politics In The Ivory Tower
by Jon Wiener
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The New Press, 2004. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes and index. 260 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener's "incisive and entertaining" (New Statesman) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years.
Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum and representing a wide array of charges, Wiener seeks to understand why some cases make the headlines and end careers, while others do not. He looks at the well publicized cases of Michael Bellesiles, the historian of gun culture accused of research fraud; accused plagiarists and "celebrity historians" Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin; Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph J. Ellis, who lied in his classroom at Mount Holyoke about having fought in Vietnam; and the allegations of misconduct by Harvard's Stephan Thernstrom and Emory's Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who nevertheless were appointed by George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener's "incisive and entertaining" (New Statesman) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years.
Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum and representing a wide array of charges, Wiener seeks to understand why some cases make the headlines and end careers, while others do not. He looks at the well publicized cases of Michael Bellesiles, the historian of gun culture accused of research fraud; accused plagiarists and "celebrity historians" Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin; Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph J. Ellis, who lied in his classroom at Mount Holyoke about having fought in Vietnam; and the allegations of misconduct by Harvard's Stephan Thernstrom and Emory's Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who nevertheless were appointed by George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities.
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- Title
- Historians In Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, And Politics In The Ivory Tower
- Author
- Jon Wiener
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
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- New
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- ISBN 10
- 1565848845
- ISBN 13
- 9781565848849
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- The New Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Historians, History, Scandals, Investigative journalism, Controversies, Politics, US history, American history, Michael Bellesiles, research fraud, plagiarists, Plagiarism, Stephen Ambrose, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Joseph Ellis, Stephan Thernstrom, Eliz
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