Heavy lifting. (On The Contrary).(author Stephen Ambrose charged with plagiarism)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, February, 2002 by Kaminer, Wendy
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PLAGIARISM CHARGES AGAINST POP HISTORIAN Stephen Ambrose are mounting; as I write this column, as many as six of his books have been found to include passages lifted from other writers without attribution. Scandals like this erupt periodically: Gail Sheehy ceded 10 percent of her royalties from the 1976 best-seller Passages to UCLA psychiatrist Roger Gould, who sued her for copyright infringement.
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(She also borrowed liberally from the work of the late Yale psychologist Daniel Levinson.) Joe McGinnis was exposed as a plagiarist when his 1993 biography of Edward Kennedy was found to ...
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