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...wonder if colonization might somehow be magical. After all, Miles Davis is the direct descendant of slaves and slave owners. Hank Williams is the direct descendant of poor whites and poorer Indians. In 1876 Emily Dickinson was writing her poems in an Amherst attic while Crazy Horse was killing Custer on the banks of the Little Big Horn. I remain stunned by these contradictions, by the successive generations of social, political and artistic mutations that can be so beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy...
...fact, there are strong suspicions that this was not the first time Ambrose passed off the words of others as his own. Other works by Ambrose that have come into question include his 1975 book Crazy Horse and Custer. How many times will Ambrose be able to get away with it without facing any sort of penalty? Colleges, by keeping Ambrose’s books in their syllabuses, undermine the importance of academic integrity and the seriousness of academic dishonesty. If students are expelled for plagiarism, Ambrose should be punished as well...
...subject, as if you hadn't guessed, is best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose, author of, among other works, a trilogy on Nixon; Crazy Horse and Custer; The Wild Blue; and Citizen Soldiers--well, author of most of them. For the past couple of weeks, prompted by a piece in The Weekly Standard showing the similarities between The Wild Blue and a 1995 book by historian Thomas Childers, truth diggers have discovered that there are a number of plagiarized passages in these books. And there may be more to come. You can bet that right now folks are crawling through Ambrose...
...film the royal Tenenbaums, supporting character and decadent author Eli Cash (Owen Wilson) becomes a household name with the publication of his best-selling novel “Old Custer,” a fantastical piece of fiction that plays with the concept of Custer’s having actually survived Little Big Horn. Cash, or the “James Joyce of the West,” crests on his newfound celebrity to score drugs, female companionship and war paint...
...pundits to ponder. One, it's the home of La-Z-Boy, a fitting place for Clinton to start his political retirement. The other is less propitious for Gore: It's also the birthplace of a man with a rather unenviable record in big battles: Gen. George Custer...