Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud
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Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud — American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin is a non-fiction book that covers the historiography of U.S. History in Part 1 and the controversies surrounding Stephen Ambrose, Michael Bellesiles, Joseph Ellis, and Doris Kearns Goodwin in Part 2. This book was written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published in 2004 by Public Affairs in New York. [1][2][3][4][5] [6] A second edition was released on July 3, 2007 in which the book was "revised and updated [and] edited with a new final chapter and conclusion."[7]
References
- ^ Lewis, Mark."The Borrowers." (November 14, 2004) The Washington Post
- ^ Robin, RON (2005). "Review of Hoffer, Past Imperfect". Pacific Historical Review. 74 (4): 660–661. doi:10.1525/phr.2005.74.4.660. JSTOR 10.1525/phr.2005.74.4.660.
- ^ Jimerson, Randall C. (2005). "Reviewed work: Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud—American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin, Peter Charles Hoffer; Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower, Jon Wiener". The American Archivist. 68 (2): 335–339. JSTOR 40294297.
- ^ Garrow, David J. (2005). "Crimes of History". The Wilson Quarterly. 29 (1): 112–114. JSTOR 40261463.
- ^ Eberhard, Wallace B. Journalism History; Las Vegas Vol. 30, No 4, (Winter 2005): 217-218. [1]
- ^ Loewen, James W. (2005). "Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History". The Public Historian. 27 (3): 69–71. doi:10.1525/tph.2005.27.3.69. JSTOR 10.1525/tph.2005.27.3.69.
- ^ WorldCat. 2022.
Further reading
- "Rogues' Gallery of Historians, A Fifth Column in Culture Wars". The New York Observer. 6 December 2004.
- Review Dennison, George M. President and Professor of History. UM-Missoula. The Montana Professor 16.2, Spring 2006. .
- Price, Mathew. "Hollow History". (October 24, 2004) The Boston Globe.