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Saturday, June 01, 2002


A strange comeuppance

    Doris Kearns Goodwin has resigned from the Pulitzer Prize board as a result of accusations she plagiarized.  Goodwin (who is a kind of a babe - for an old broad) says the purloined passages were the "result of a longhand note-taking system that didn't distinguish between her own observations and passages from other texts."  The Wall Street Journal's ace columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz reasons, in an April Opinion Journal piece:

"Some don't find this plausible, others know exactly how possible it is to do such things when writing in haste, and a certain passion."
    Rabinowitz is in the latter camp, believing that Goodwin has been victimized by self-righteous popinjays.  Me too.  Still, the loss of her sterling reputation is, in some respect, a proper comeuppance for Goodwin. It was during the time of Clinton's Impeachment that I watched Doris Kearns Goodwin - make that Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin - join the disingenuous gaggle of apologists trying to excuse the President's rancid behavior by trashing the reputation of others. She appeared on evening television talkies and reintroduced/lent credence to an old and discredited (at least among serious scholars) tale about Dwight Eisenhower's alleged affair with his wartime driver, Kay Summersby.  For me this was as despicable an act, for somebody claiming to be a historian, as was Newt Gingrich's cave-in to Democrat hyenas and subsequent firing of Christina Jeffrey from her job as historian of the House of Representatives.  Both, I imagine, will live to regret those decisions.  Both certainly will spend some time in hell on earth, even if it is for the wrong sins - the worst kind of hell.
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