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Review title: At Least It Isn't plagiarized
Product review: One cannot complain that Dr. Quinn has copied his work from someone else--although that includes an accurate quotation of his sources. Before taking this book seriously as scholariship (it's great gossip if one is into that) randomly select 25 footnotes and check them out. Probable accuracy: 5 of 25. And the other problem is, without checking one doesn't know which 5. That's the advantage of lots and lots of footnotes: there is an appearance of eruditon, without the risk of disclosing egregiousness.
