Jimmy Carter has a new book out that's attracting plenty of attention. In Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, Carter takes a tough (if not one-sided) look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The book, however, provoked Professor Kenneth Stein, the first Executive Director of the Carter Center and a Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center, to resign his position. Stein says:
President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook.
On top of that, Dennis Ross, former Mideast envoy in the Clinton Administration, claims Carter used maps created by Ross without attribution.
Double ugh.
But in the You-Can't-Win category, novelists are now taking flak for citing sources in their books...
That's so funny! Thanks for sharing that, Patrick.
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