Biblio

2004050431(OCoLC)ocm55488166R2-474172Jon Wiener.20 cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.Historians in trouble -- I: Presidential nominees -- 1. Feminism and harassment: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese goes to court -- 2. The Alger Hiss case, the archives, and Allen Weinstein -- 3. Facing black students at Harvard: Stephan Thernstrom takes a stand -- II: Targeted by the right -- 4. Arming America and "academic fraud" -- 5. David Abraham and the Nazis -- 6. Mike Davis and power in Los Angeles -- III: Misconduct without media spectacle -- 7. The Denmark Vesey "trial record": a new verdict -- 8. John Lott, Gun rights, and research fraud -- IV: Other media spectacles -- 9. The "porn professor": Dino Cinel, sexual abuse, and the catholic church -- 10. Lying to students about Vietnam: the mythic past of Joseph Ellis -- 11. The plagiarists: Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose.