Reason Writers Around Town: Michael C. Moynihan on a Very Familiar Book About the 1970s
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Reason Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan reviews Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right and finds the author, British historian Dominic Sandbrook, "recycling the phrasing, the descriptive adjectives, the reportorial detail" of other historians, frequently not bothering with pesky quotation marks.
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Ah sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you!
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Linda Gail Lewis' cover is somewhat better to my ears. Marie Osmond looks really hot singing this song.
Were you the first to discover the plagiarism Michael? Nice take-down!
So Max is actually Dominic Sandbrook. Whooda thunk it?