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Historian and Mount Holyoke professor Joseph Ellis fabricated stories about his experiences in Vietnam but never saw active duty in the war [HISTORY, July 2]. That is a disgrace. Ellis needs to go to the Vietnam Memorial and touch every name on the wall. He will then realize what he...
Not so huggable, of course, as to lose any hard-won gravitas. With that careful balance in mind, the White House is also looking for venues that put a little more starch in Bush?s shirt. Yesterday, the President took part in a swearing-in ceremony on Ellis Island for...
Better still, make it up. Recently the Pulitzer prizewinning historian Joseph Ellis, who has every reason to be content with a distinguished intellectual life, admitted he had fabricated a history of having been a paratrooper in Vietnam. Sadly, crazily, he gave himself a past to amend some self-perceived deficiency...
Mount Holyoke will too. As part of a formal investigation, students who took Ellis' Vietnam course will be contacted to determine the severity of the lies. Some colleagues suspect that Ellis will resign before the investigation is complete. "He's devastated by this," says O'Shea. Academics, and historians in...
JOSEPH ELLIS Pulitzer author admits his 'Nam days were fiction after Boston Globe forces the issue