Worst Book of the Year
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Worst Book of the Year" if you listen to the Rumsfeld coterie, and if you consider what we actually did in Afghanistan, you realize that the State Department is just being stately. Where our serious interests are engaged...
...The reason is that both of them are ready, willing and able to leak weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, of which many are already based within our borders...
...Critics of a contrarian cast of mind also suffer the urge to solemnize...
...J. Gordon CooglerAward Worst Book of the Year BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR...
...Perhaps less well-known, but surely more exacting in their standards, are the Cooglers...
...As I say, these hoaxers are not necessarily discredited by being exposed...
...Thus the Times joins the ranks of such venerable publications as The New Republic (Stephen Glass and Ruth Shalit), The New Yorker (Rodney Rothman) and Slate (Jay Forman) in admitting to having published stories that were humbug—and I might add obvious humbug to any readers haunted by a skeptical mind...
...is editor in chief of The American Spectator...
...Many go on to higher things, for plagiarism and fraud are becoming marks of genius among some of America's most famous intellectuals...
...So NATO most assuredly has a purpose, just not the original purpose...
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...As Bush told Putin, our cardinal foreign policy aim is stopping that from happening...
...Recall Michael Daly's resignation from the New York Daily News for passing off a fictional character as real flesh and blood or Patricia Smith's sad departure from The Boston Globe...
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...Let the carpers complain that the book was actually published in the year 2000...
...Conservatives as well as liberals can, and do, play the game, and while both can be tendentious and tedious, liberals have an advantage...
...The big reason is simply that while it took 10 sorties to kill a tank in the Gulf War, thanks to improved munitions, one sortie killed up to two tanks in Afghanistan, making an Iraq air campaign possible with our carrier wings plus flights from Insirlik...
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...And Bellesiles defends his position by citing documents that no other scholars can find...
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...J' \iiii~aii r t:d Di 20 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • JULY/AUGUST 2002 Skeptical readers will also recall the columnists who so often get caught passing off their infantile fantasies as real people ground down by cruel America...
...Remember Mike Barnicle of The Boston Globe, gone from the Globe now but still huffing and puffing on cable television...
...A year ago this past April, the book won America's most prestigious award for history, the Bancroft Award, despite its fabricated sources, misstated historical events, implausible thesis and the author's inability to defend its integrity...
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...And so it is that this year in recognition of this promising trend in our intellectual life the J. Gordon Coogler Award for 2001 goes to the most gifted of the New Charlatans, Professor Michael Bellesiles, author of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture...
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...Top commanders assured me that action by NATO as such was not now contemplated, and that's very easy to believe...
...An essential technique in this growing intellectual movement seems to be an aptitude for plagiarism...
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...To get through this phase, the applicant has to reform its military, to bring it under civilian control and make it an efficient fighting force...
...Doubtless she will remain an esteemed figure...
...combat division lose itsfighting capability during an extended peace-keeping mission?You sometimes hear this denied by high-level Army spokesmen, but not on the ground...
...Daly went on to New York magazine...
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...Then there is the inimitable Michael G. Gartner who in 1993 resigned as president of NBC News after acknowledging that one of his news teams had broadcast a hoax...
...He left for a small Iowa newspaper where four years later the Pulitzer Conunittee awarded him a Pulitzer for "editorial writing...
...Jan L. GA I use my computer all the time and WOW what a difference...
...Thus, de facto, we and the Russians are in the same boat, as is solemnized by our inviting them to the NATO conference table...
...So why fret...
...Studies show that sunshine can lift your mood and your energy levels, but as we all know the sun, unfortunately, does not always shine...
...Henceforth, in urgent matters we'll assemble a "coalition of the willing" and just move in, while State assembles a cheering section...
...and so we confer Cooglers upon the worst: the worst book, the worst journalism...
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...Since Putin has the same problem, thanks to the Chechens, he understands perfectly...
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...All sensitive readers of the public prints must know by now that many of the most celebrated writers in the land steal other writers' material and often simply make things up—for instance, footnotes, archival evidence and even their own biographies (remember Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis' apocryphal revelations of his Vietnam and civil rights exploits—he also lied about his high school football days—and what he has told his shrink about his sex life is not to be imagined...
...Now we have settled on a Coogler for the worst book...
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...That is to say we have focused on our country's growing number of talented plagiarists and hoaxers...
...Interestingly enough, the process of enlarging NATO, quite aside from the fact of its expansion, has a tremendous effect on those concerned...
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...On the other hand, the Palestine uproar seems to have thrown off our timing very seriously The Europeans ask why we are so excited about Iraq and North Korea...
...The book is a nonsense and a fraud...
...You need only to pretend to know what you're talking about, and while you may know nothing at all, you will never be penalized for being wrong...
...Everybody in the NATO orbit is, of course, buzzing about Iraq...
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...I t is that time of year when critics in various fields of intellectual endeavor bestow their awards for "the best"There are the Pulitzers, the Emmys, the Oscars...
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...Bellesiles claims that up through the mid-19th century guns were relatively rare in America...
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...Greece and Turkey might well have gone to war already if they'd not both been NATO members...
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...Recent successful applicants are detailed to coach the petitioners, like getting an upperclassman to tutor you in college...
...Cognizant, how-ever, of an emerging trend in American intellectual life, we have wanted this year to go beyond mere bad writing and give especial consideration to America's intellectual trend-setters, the elite intellectuals who are on the cutting-edge of literary technique...
...In our January/February issue, we conferred our first Coogler for shabby journalism to The Washington Post's Michael Grunwald for his reporting on PCB phantasms in deepest Alabama...
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...For over a year, ever more of the book's deceptions have been exposed, yet the Bancroft still glitters on Bellesiles' chest...
...Pulitzers, Emmys and Oscars are the awards conferred by convention-al critics responding to that main-stream American quest, "Why not the best...
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...He stands by his story as adamantinely as Alger Hiss once stood by his.And his thesis really is implausible...
...Within the past year, illustrious historians have admitted to repeated acts of plagiarism, for J. Gordon Coogler circa 1897 instance, Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin...
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...We contrarians sitting on the committee that confers the J. Gordon Coogler Award pursue a different quest, namely, "Why not the worst...
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...Usually my colleagues and I have conferred it in recognition of ghastly prose or imbecilic analysis or a preposterous thesis J or all of the above...
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...I have served on the Coogler panel for years and endured some excruciatingly bad books, both fiction and nonfiction.This year the Coogler R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
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...Where is he now...
...Barnicle survives as a TV sage...
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...Goodwin is actually boasting of her plagiarism as the mark of a very hard-working "wife and mother...
...News stories and feature articles in our most prestigious publications have often seemed larded with nonsense, but now many renowned editors are admitting to having published as fact stories that are almost total fiction...
...There is little risk of another Gulf War, or a Korean War, nor will Iraq lob a missile at London and get obliterated for its pains...
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...Besides, Arming America came out in paperback in 2001...
...It has to settle quarrels with its neighbors and internal minorities.And it must develop inter-operability with the rest of NATO—including introducing English in the armed services—and, in general, shape up...
Vol. 35 • July 2002 • No. 4
