Who is the World's Most Decorated Plagiarist?

by Liberty and Power

For the answer, see here.

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Andrew D. Todd - 4/3/2006

I was rather amused by EricWeiner's comment:

"In her book, Goodwin makes the groundbreaking assertion that Lincoln was a heckuva manager because he named smart people to his cabinet even if they disagreed with him. Obviously it's a theme she knew was likely to resonate today in light of George W. Bush's much discussed desire to surround himself with yes-men."

That is something of an old tradition. See, for example, Gerhard Ritter's _Frederick The Great_, in which Frederick is presented as a kind of anti-Hitler. I know, Godwin's law, and all that, and one doesn't want to compare Dubya with the unlamented Schicklegruber.

Steve Jackson - 4/1/2006

I'm not going to condone plagiarism, but as a sin ripping off a few paragraphs or pages of someone else's work ranks up there with, well, I'm not sure.

And while I don't know anything about how Miss Godwin writes her books, many superstar non-fiction writers have teams of researchers. Yet they present the books as their own.

Even worse is the phenomenon of ghost writing. Certain prominent non-fiction series are ghost written and that doesn't seem to bother anyone.