Team of Rivals

[Dave Monroe]

Article published Nov 6, 2005
A timid history A writer recently embroiled in a
plagiarism controversy is gun-shy to a fault in her
new Abraham Lincoln biography
By MIKE PRIDE
Monitor editor

Doris Kearns Goodwin has borne her big new Lincoln
book into a literary world divided into two camps:
those who can't forgive her plagiarism and those too
ready to forgive. In writing Team of Rivals she toiled
under the burden of the controversy, and it shows.

[...]

In Team of Rivals, she guards against improper
borrowing by lacing her text with references to the
conclusions of contemporary historians. She even
quotes novelists - Thomas Pynchon, Thomas Mann - on
aspects of her characters'minds and motivation....

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051106/REPOSITORY/511060309/1001/NEWS01


	
		
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