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Past imperfect : facts, fictions, fraud-- American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin
- Title
- Past imperfect : facts, fictions, fraud-- American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin / Peter Charles Hoffer.
- Author
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
- Publication
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2004.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 287 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bellesiles, Michael A
- Historians > United States > Biography
- Ellis, Joseph J
- United States > History > Philosophy
- Ambrose, Stephen E
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Professional ethics > United States > Case studies
- Historiography > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- Historiography > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- United States > Historiography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-272) and index.
- Contents
- I: Facts and fictions -- The rise of consensus history -- Professions of history -- The new history and its promoters -- In the eye of the storm -- II: Fraud -- Falsification: the case of Michael Bellesiles -- Plagiarism: the cases of Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin -- Fabrication: the case of Joseph Ellis -- The future of the past.
- Call Number
- IAE 05-1637
- ISBN
- 1586482440
- LCCN
- OCM55682098
- 2004048653
- OCLC
- 62881705
- vendorOCM55682098
- Author
- Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
- Title
- Past imperfect : facts, fictions, fraud-- American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin / Peter Charles Hoffer.
- Imprint
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2004.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-272) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IAE 05-1637