Joe McGinniss on Doris Kearns Goodwin

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MY ARTICLE in the latest The Weekly Standard, “A Historian and Her Sources,” points out several instances of copied language in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.” Despite the fact that she had improperly copied from others, Goodwin in 1993 criticized Joe McGinniss for copying her book without proper credit. McGinniss has now written to us in response:


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