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Newspaper Article
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1999
Overview
Mainstream Publishing has withdrawn all copies of James Mackay's biography of John Paul Jones, the Scottish-born founder of the United States navy, after the writer was judged to have lifted material from an earlier book. Grove Atlantic, the publisher of the book in the US, destroyed 7,500 copies of I Have not yet Begun to Fight: A Life of John Paul Jones, after an independent report confirmed that Mackay, who has been accused by The Scotsman of plagiarising material for five of his books, had copied material from a book by Samuel Eliot Morison, an eminent US historian. It is the second time in two years that a Mackay book has been pulped by a US publisher. Last year, John Wiley withdrew its US edition of Mackay's biography of Alexander Graham Bell, which a US professor said was a near-direct copy of his book on the inventor.
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Scotsman Publications
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