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Oct. 13th, 2002 01:05 pmSo, Stephen Ambrose is dead.
I can't decide what I feel about this.
On the one hand, he probably did more to tear down my chosen vocation of Historian than anyone in the last 50 years, especially with his flagrant plagarization and blatant lies about some events.
Part of me is almost happy that he's gone, and perhaps his poison with him.
And yet....
This was a man. And for a long time, a good and respected man, until he fell into the trap he made of himself. He wrote good books. He taught a lot of people how to be better historians than he.
No man should die completely hated by those he worked so hard to educate.
I can't decide what I feel about this.
On the one hand, he probably did more to tear down my chosen vocation of Historian than anyone in the last 50 years, especially with his flagrant plagarization and blatant lies about some events.
Part of me is almost happy that he's gone, and perhaps his poison with him.
And yet....
This was a man. And for a long time, a good and respected man, until he fell into the trap he made of himself. He wrote good books. He taught a lot of people how to be better historians than he.
No man should die completely hated by those he worked so hard to educate.
