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...Harvard Overseers have had controversy of their own. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose term as an Overseer will end later this month, admitted that she failed to attribute information in her books to several source materials, most notably Lynne McTaggart??€™s Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times. Sentences from McTaggart??€™s book were reproduced almost verbatim, without attribution in Goodwin’s The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. The plagiarism was serious enough to prompt publisher Simon & Schuster to destroy all remaining copies of the book in lieu of the publication of a revised, corrected version...
...this were one accidental case of incorrect citation, the situation may warrant a different response. But as Goodwin herself has recognized, the unattributed use of sources goes far beyond borrowing isolated phrases from Lynne McTaggart??€™s Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times, as Goodwin originally claimed, but rather involved many more uncited works...
Goodwin, who received her doctorate in history from Harvard in 1968, has insisted that she did not commit plagiarism in copying—almost verbatim—sentences from Lynne McTaggart??€™s Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times in her 1987 book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys...
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