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Past imperfect : facts, fictions, fraud -- American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, [2004]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Bellesiles, Michael A.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Ellis, Joseph J.
Historiography > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Historiography > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Historians > United States > Biography.
Professional ethics > United States > Case studies.
United States > Historiography.
United States > History > Philosophy.
Table of 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.