Background
Wiener, Jon was born on May 16, 1944 in Saint Paul. Son of Daniel N. and Gladys (Aronsohn) Spratt. Bachelor, Princeton University, 1966.
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Available for the first time in paperback after being widely reviewed and discussed upon its hardcover publication, Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener’s “incisive and entertaining” (New Statesman) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years. Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum and representing a wide array of charges, Wiener seeks to understand why some cases make the headlines and end careers, while others do not. He looks at the well publicized cases of Michael Bellesiles, the historian of gun culture accused of research fraud; accused plagiarists and “celebrity historians” Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin; Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph J. Ellis, who lied in his classroom at Mount Holyoke about having fought in Vietnam; and the allegations of misconduct by Harvard’s Stephan Thernstrom and Emory’s Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who nevertheless were appointed by George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities. As the Bancroft Prize–winning historian Linda Gordon wrote in Dissent, Wiener’s “very readable book . . . reveals not only scholarly misdeeds but also recent increases in threats to free debate and intellectual integrity.”
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“It is frightening to think the Jon Wiener teaches history at a university ... ”—Jacques Derrida “Wiener takes the modern university as his beat, and covers it like a police reporter ... Wiener’s mean streets are the think tank, the scholarly symposium, and the faculty lounge. And when he’s had enough of this academic low life, he listens to Elvis, Springsteen and the Beatles. He even listens to Frank Sinatra.”—John Leonard “In this book, Jon Wiener demonstrates his great skill as guerrilla sharpshooter in the forty-year war that the National Security State has been conducting against the American people. These reports from the field—the resistance—illuminate Nixon and Watergate as never before, reveal in fascinating detail the turbulence within Academe, invoke pity if not awe for that unexpected victim of state, Frank Sinatra.”—Gore Vidal “Wiener is good at spotting, and blasting, paranoid fantasy and incompetence in high (and low) places and his range of targets is impressively wide ... his surveys are lucid, trenchant and brief.”—Observer
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Wiener, Jon was born on May 16, 1944 in Saint Paul. Son of Daniel N. and Gladys (Aronsohn) Spratt. Bachelor, Princeton University, 1966.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1971. Visiting professor University of California-Santa Cruz, 1973. Acting assistant professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-1974.
Assistant professor of history University of California-Irvine, 1974-1983, professor, 1984.
Plaintiff Freedom of Information Lawsuit against Federal Bureau of Investigation for John Lennon Files, 1983.
Acting assistant professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-1974. Assistant professor history University California-Irvine, 1974-1983, professor, since 1984. Plaintiff Freedom of Information Lawsuit against Federal Bureau of Investigation for John Lennon Files, since 1983.
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Member American History Association, National Book Critics Circle, Organisation American Historians, National Writers" Union, Liberty Hill Foundation (board of directors).