According to McTaggart, Goodwin took a third of her book without making attribution. She said that she felt that Goodwin had "lifted out the heart and guts of somebody else's individual expression." McTaggart and Goodwin entered into a "private settlement"' over the matter. In an article in ''[[Time]]'' [[magazine]], Goodwin said, "Though my footnotes repeatedly cited Ms. McTaggart's work, I failed to provide quotation marks for phrases that I had taken verbatim ... The larger question for those of us who write history is to understand how citation mistakes can happen."<ref>Doris Kearns Goodwin: "How I Caused that Story," ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]],''January 27, 2002.</ref> | According to McTaggart, Goodwin took a third of her book without making attribution. She said that she felt that Goodwin had "lifted out the heart and guts of somebody else's individual expression." McTaggart and Goodwin entered into a "private settlement"' over the matter. In an article in ''[[Time]]'' [[magazine]], Goodwin said, "Though my footnotes repeatedly cited Ms. McTaggart's work, I failed to provide quotation marks for phrases that I had taken verbatim ... The larger question for those of us who write history is to understand how citation mistakes can happen."<ref>Doris Kearns Goodwin: "How I Caused that Story," ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]],''January 27, 2002.</ref> |