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Forgive my ignorance...I've heard bits and pieces about his book. Would someone give a summary of what was wrong or what lies he tried write?
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My pleasure. There are two sites that you can go to: Clayton Cramer's and a PDF file of a paper published by James Lindgren. Clayton is an amateur historian (published, though) and Lindgren is a professor of history. Between the two of them, they've pretty much fried Bellesiles. Finally, there's the report of the independent committee called by Emory University. There's a link to it in the first post in this thread, but that study was restricted to a very narrow portion of the book. Clayton Cramer has a whole section of his web site dedicated to the Bellesiles scandal, including an entire book he is trying to get published (unsuccessfully.) His site is [url]www.claytoncramer.com[/url], but the short version is here (you need Adobe Acrobat to read it:) [url=www.claytoncramer.com/ArmingAmericaFraud.pdf] Fraud in Michael Bellesiles Arming America[/url]
Lindgren's article is here (also a PDF): [url=www.law.nwu.edu/faculty/fulltime/Lindgren/LindgrenFINAL.]Fall from Grace: Arming America and the Bellesiles Scandal[/url]
The [url=hnn.us/departments/22.html]History News Network[/url] has several excellent articles, too.
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