Kennedy biography plagiarism
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Gerald Posner
American reporter and author
Gerald Leo Posner is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993), which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. A plagiarism scandal involving articles that Posner wrote for The daglig Beast and his book Miami Babylon arose in 2010.[2][3][4][5]
Early life and education
[edit]Posner was born in San Francisco, California, the only child of Jerry and Gloria Posner. His father was Jewish and his mother Catholic,[6] and both were native San Franciscans. His father was a labor union official.
Posner was raised Catholic.[7][8] He was educated at St. Ignatius College Preparatory and graduated summa cum laude from
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Accused author shakes off accusations
Doris Kearns Goodwin moves ahead with Lincoln biography ,
CONCORD -- In early January, an anonymous letter arrived at the Washington, D.C., office of the Weekly Standard, the well-know political publication. It was addressed to Executive Editor Fred Barnes, who had written a piece suggesting that historian Stephen E. Ambrose's book about World War II bombers contained some passages "barely distinguishable" from another author's work.
The mystery correspondent, identified in the letter as an "academic historian living in the Northeastern U.S.," indicated other authors might be equally culpable
"I've long been concerned by several instances of plagiarism I noted long ago in Doris Kearns Goodwin's 'The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.' I believe she ought to be called to account, just as Professor Ambrose has."
Passages from the Goodwin book and other Kennedy histories were set down for comparison, beginning with a three-sentence snippet that app
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Author accuses historian of copying
A U.S. author claims that historian
Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has acknowledged inadvertently copying material from
other works, actually took the ''heart and guts'' from her book about Kathleen
Kennedy.
In her strongest statement about
the dispute, Lynne McTaggart said thousands of words from her 1983 biography
''Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times'' were copied in Goodwin's 1987 book
''The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.'' McTaggart said passages from 91 of the
248 pages in her book appear in the Goodwin work.
Goodwin, a winner of the Pulitzer
Prize for history, has denied deliberate plagiarism, and her attorney said Friday
that McTaggart's allegations were ''preposterous.''
In January, the Weekly Standard,
a conservative magazine, reported that Goodwin had borrowed phrases from McTaggart's
book and two other works for her volume on the Kennedys.
Goodwin told The Boston Globe that
she had taken notes for the 900-page book and done