Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith

Ambrose, it turns out, was guilty of that as well. Much more serious is the insertion of false work into true.

The teller may be corrupt, but the tale is still valid. Yet from the reader's point of view, plagiarized work can remain informative work. When done by a very famous writer like Ambrose to less famous people, it has the special ugliness of a theft by the rich from the poor, like the story of the stolen ewe lamb with which the prophet Nathan reproached King David. Plagiarism is a serious intellectual and academic transgression. Ambrose's patriots can't fall back on the factory defense anymore: Two of the cases occurred when Ambrose was an obscure professor, before he became Stephen Ambrose Industries. And today the New York Times' David Kirkpatrick discovered five more swiped phrases and passages in The Wild Blue. On Monday, Lewis revealed that Ambrose lifted sentences from Jay Monaghan's Custer biography in his 1975 book Crazy Horse and Custer.Two days later, Lewis exposed Cases 3 and 4-pilferage in 1997's best seller Citizen Soldiers and 1991's Nixon: Ruin and Recovery. 1, but then 's Mark Lewis started digging. David Plotz of Slate describes what happened after Fred Barnes detected plagiarism in the pages of Ambrose's history of B-24 bomber crews, The Wild Blue.Īmbrose ducked plagiarism No. Ambrose's writing remains a pleasure, but it's a pleasure with a problem - actually two problems, one serious the other, very serious.īefore his death in 2002, Ambrose was detected in regular acts of plagiarism.

Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith