![]() ![]() Today, the Washington Post reported that in the wake of that Times story, Goodwin has agreed to take an indefinite leave of absence from her pundit perch on PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer. Finally last weekend she told the New York Times that The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys has more flaws than even the Standard had alleged. Then, after more details surfaced, she wrote a somewhat self-serving essay for Time that conceded fault but insisted that her mistakes were inadvertent, the result of inadequate research procedures. ![]() ![]() At first, Goodwin minimized the extent of the problem. Goodwin herself seemed trapped in a hall of mirrors last month after The Weekly Standard accused her of plagiarizing from several sources in her hugely popular The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, a 1987 bestseller that later was made into a successful TV miniseries. ![]()
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