Good grief! Susan Bailey Co-authorĀ The Twain Shall Meet Greenville, SC 864 238-5702 Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> </div><div>Date:11/17/2014 3:03 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: [log in to unmask] </div><div>Cc: </div><div>Subject: A Response from the Reviewer re Mark Twain's America </div><div> </div>The letter from Harry L. Katz and Tom Wiener (both retired from the = Library of Congress) in response to my review of their book, Mark = Twain=E2=80=99s America (by =E2=80=9CHarry L Katz and the Library of = Congress=E2=80=9D) arrived in my mailbox while I was on the road and = unable to spare a moment to reply; hence the slight delay. What I see in that letter is a cautiously worded expression of regret = but not an apology. This reviewer does agree that this matter may be = regarded merely as a situation in which a source was =E2=80=9Cmistakenly = omitted from [their] Bibliography and Acknowledgements.=E2=80=9D=20 This 244p. book has perhaps 110pp. of actual text (excluding the copious = illustrations, the many extended quotes, the preface by James = Billington, the foreword by Lewis Lapham, and the 8pp. index). In those = approximately 110pp. are more than 100 factual errors and more than 400 = sentences and phrases copied verbatim from at least four copyrighted = sources (the source count has doubled since I wrote my review). Their letter concludes that the authors wish to =E2=80=9Cmove forward to = make [their] Twain book the very best it can be.=E2=80=9D This reviewer = does not think a book so freighted with the intellectual property of = others and burdened with so much misinformation can move forward at all. = =20 Kevin Mac Donnell=20 Reviewer of Mark Twain=E2=80=99s America http://www.twainweb.net/reviews/KatzLOC.html