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| March 14, 2005 | Ponnuru, Ramesh | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WHEN historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was accused of plagiarism, Laurence Tribe rushed to her defense. The Harvard Crimson had published an editorial demanding that Goodwin resign from Harvard's board. Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, wrote a letter to the Crimson criticizing its editorial as "utter nonsense." His friend Goodwin was guilty of some "sloppy" and "inadequate" footnoting--but of nothing worse. "[U]nlike any number of historians and others who have been caught falsifying as fact what was, in truth, fantasy--either about their own lives or about the events they were chronicling--Goodwin has not been accused, and could not plausibly ...

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