Comments on: Book Review: Deeply Flawed http://www.historynet.com/deeply-flawed-edward-g-longacre.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 19 May 2013 22:40:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dave Conrad http://www.historynet.com/deeply-flawed-edward-g-longacre.htm#comment-817159 Dave Conrad Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:06:35 +0000 #comment-817159 Mr. Longacre-- I'm a fan of much of your work, but this is a pretty serious charge to level. Did Publishers Weekly and Kirkus also have conflicts of interest? PW: "Longacre's sympathy for his subject leads him both to overestimate Pickett's military capacities and to understate Gettysburg's impact on a man who in its aftermath arguably suffered from what is now called post-traumatic stress disorder." Kirkus: "[T]he author fashions a biography long on 'when' and 'where' but short on 'why.'" (This, you'll note, is similar to Gallagher's conclusion that your book offers "a sound chronology" but not much beyond.) Mr. Longacre–

I'm a fan of much of your work, but this is a pretty serious charge to level. Did Publishers Weekly and Kirkus also have conflicts of interest?

PW: "Longacre's sympathy for his subject leads him both to overestimate Pickett's military capacities and to understate Gettysburg's impact on a man who in its aftermath arguably suffered from what is now called post-traumatic stress disorder."

Kirkus: "[T]he author fashions a biography long on 'when' and 'where' but short on 'why.'" (This, you'll note, is similar to Gallagher's conclusion that your book offers "a sound chronology" but not much beyond.)

]]> By: Edward G. Longacre http://www.historynet.com/deeply-flawed-edward-g-longacre.htm#comment-624693 Edward G. Longacre Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:20:46 +0000 #comment-624693 As the author of the book under review, I have reason to suspect that the reviewer, Dr. Gallagher, was guilty of a flagrant conflict of interest. This charge was made to me by the publisher of my biography of General Pickett. My publisher unformed me that before he wrote this review Gallagher had recommended that his own publisher, the University of North Carolina Press, release a rival biography of Pickett, written by Lesley Gordon. This book was in fact published two years later. As the author of the book under review, I have reason to suspect that the reviewer, Dr. Gallagher, was guilty of a flagrant conflict of interest. This charge was made to me by the publisher of my biography of General Pickett. My publisher unformed me that before he wrote this review Gallagher had recommended that his own publisher, the University of North Carolina Press, release a rival biography of Pickett, written by Lesley Gordon. This book was in fact published two years later.

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