Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-272) and index.
Contents
I: Facts and fictions -- The rise of consensus history -- Professions of history -- The new history and its promoters -- In the eye of the storm -- II: Fraud -- Falsification: the case of Michael Bellesiles -- Plagiarism : the cases of Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin -- Fabrication: the case of Joseph Ellis -- The future of the past.