In June 2001 the Boston Globe revealed that Ellis had lied to his students in lectures and to the media about his role in American culture and the Vietnam War years.[11] He claimed to have been a combat platoon leader in Vietnam, to have been active in civil rights campaigns in the south, and to have been an anti-war leader at Yale.[11] His actual military record consisted of obtaining a graduate student deferral of service until 1969 and then teaching history at West Point until 1972.
He obviously is a man of low moral character in the first place.
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What is particularly sad about this chump is that he is an American history professor with several published books to his credit.
The fact that he can still write drivel like this and pass it off as well considered opinion is typical of most elitist and progressives.
I've said many times that we'd all be better off were the Bill of Rights only five words long: "Congress shall make no law."
All in all, I'd prefer a much more dysfunctional government, one which was incapable of interfering much in our lives and those of foreign civilians.
In that sense, at least, he was mostly right.
Please allow me to state that while the author of that biased bit of Progressive snark may be AN historian, he is NOT me. I am NOT Joseph Ellis.
I have never falsely claimed to be a platoon leader in Vietnam, nor have I ever taught at Mount Holyoke.
In June 2001 the Boston Globe revealed that Ellis had lied to his students in lectures and to the media about his role in American culture and the Vietnam War years.[11] He claimed to have been a combat platoon leader in Vietnam, to have been active in civil rights campaigns in the south, and to have been an anti-war leader at Yale.[11] His actual military record consisted of obtaining a graduate student deferral of service until 1969 and then teaching history at West Point until 1972.
He obviously is a man of low moral character in the first place.
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