Talk:The Swerve

A fact from The Swerve appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 July 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, George F. Kennan: An American Life and Water by the Spoonful won 2012 Pulitzer Prizes for History, General Non-Fiction, Biography or Autobiography and Drama, respectively?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/4 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners.

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There seems to be something of an ongoing vendetta against the book here. I read the book recently, came to Wikipedia and found a long list of excoriating reviews. The page history is full of attempts by editors to build this negative case, even pulling from personal blogs. There was a single paragraph with a few lines of praise and then long paragraphs and block quotes of negative criticism. Worse still, many of the negative quotes were cut to remove nuance or even completely fabricated, not appearing in the links. I made a major re-edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.163.64.5 (talk) 14:30, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The vendetta is probably because it's a bad book that won a lot of prizes, so that rankles people. Most of the reviews from actual scholars were excoriating; Wikipedia shouldn't be in the business of artificially balancing debates. But of course none of this excuses made-up text or anything like that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roidenavarre (talk • contribs) 20:25, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]