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New website features "Famous Plagiarists"

The website is run by John P. Lesko, an assistant professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University, who is also responsible for a new scholarly journal, Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification.

The webste features brief analyses of all the famous history plagiarism cases from Ambrose to Goodwin to H.G. Wells. A color-coded meter ranks the threat they pose to good scholarship.

Read entire article at FamousPlagiarists.com