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100 1 $aHoffer, Peter Charles,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018907
245 10 $aPast imperfect :$bfacts, fictions, fraud-- American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin /$cPeter Charles Hoffer.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPublicAffairs,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axiv, 287 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-272) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : two-faced history --$gCh. 1.$tThe rise of consensus history --$gCh. 2.$tProfessions of history --$gCh. 3.$tThe new history and its promoters --$gCh. 4.$tIn the eye of the storm --$gCh. 5.$tFalsification : the case of Michael Bellesiles --$gCh. 6.$tPlagiarism : the cases of Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin --$gCh. 7.$tFabrication : the case of Joseph Ellis --$tConclusion : the future of the past.
520 1 $a"Woodrow Wilson, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the disenfranchised women. So the history of Wilson's generation omitted a significant proportion of the population in favor of a perspective that was predominantly white, male, and Protestant." "That flaw would become a fissure and eventually a schism. A new history arose which, written in part by radicals and liberals, had little use for the noble and the heroic, and rankled many who wanted a celebratory rather than a critical history. To this combustible mixture of elements was added the flame of public debate. History in the 1990s was a minefield of competing passions, political views, and prejudices. It was dangerous ground, and, at the end of the decade, four of the nation's most respected and popular historians were almost destroyed on it: Michael Bellesiles, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose, and Joseph Ellis." "This is their story, set against the wider narrative of America's history. It may be, as Flaubert put it, that "Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times." To which he could have added: falsify, plagiarize, and politicize, because that's the other story of America's history."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBellesiles, Michael A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92078156
600 10 $aGoodwin, Doris Kearns.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84007639
600 10 $aAmbrose, Stephen E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79138556
600 10 $aEllis, Joseph J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076457
650 0 $aHistoriography$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aHistoriography$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aHistorians$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105657
650 0 $aProfessional ethics$zUnited States$vCase studies.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistoriography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140322
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