Elyse’s Comments (group member since Aug 04, 2018)

Elyse’s comments from the Challenges group.

Meg wrote: "I'm skeptical of Team of Rivals personally. The author is a known plagiarist that makes me rather uncomfortable with her works. Also, from what I understand, she took some creative liberties with t..."

Mike wrote: "Have you read any from the Post list yet? I've read a few, Team of Rivals and the Garfield book. Maybe we can use that to build a reading list?"

Your comment is the first I've read that Doris Kearns Goodwin was accused of plagiarism. I immediately did some online research on reliable sites and you are correct. This makes me very sad. I've always considered her a rock star. Being a good human is a difficult task as we all know. I have a book on my TBR, "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma" by Claire Dederer. I'll need to read it soon. This has been a terrible shock. (I'll never consider Kearns a monster in spite of this book's title.) I'm hoping it was a one time mistake. I've met her and she is a sweet lady.

My book choice for Martin Van Buren was by Joel H. Silby. I'm up to Grover Cleveland now. I've got to say MVB was the most BORING of all the presidents I've read about so far. I can even say this after getting through "the presidents with beards".

When I was reading about Rutherford B. Hayes I had a very smart person ask me what president I was up to. When I answered they said, "We had a president named Rutherford B. Hayes?!" LOL Hahaha