Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud
Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud — American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin is a 2004 non-fiction book, written by Peter Charles Hoffer, 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. 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."[1]
Reviews[edit]
- The American Archivist[2]
- Journalism History[3]
- Pacific Historical Review[4]
- The Public Historian[5]
- The Washington Post[6]
- The Wilson Quarterly[7]
References[edit]
- ^ WorldCat Archived 2023-03-17 at the Wayback Machine. 2022.
- ^ Jimerson, Randall C. (2005). "Review of Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud—American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin; Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower". The American Archivist. 68 (2): 335–339. ISSN 0360-9081. Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Eberhard, Wallace B. (Winter 2005). "Past Imperfect Facts, Fictions, Fraud-American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin". Journalism History. 30 (4): 217–218. Archived from the original on 2023-03-01. Retrieved 2022-06-28 – via ProQuest.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Borrowers". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ Garrow, David J. (2005). "Crimes of History". The Wilson Quarterly. 29 (1): 112–114. JSTOR 40261463.
Further reading[edit]
- "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.