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To: DMaA who wrote (478743)3/26/2012 8:27:20 PM
From: Tom Clarke1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 793896
 
waddaya know...I typed 'bill bennett m.e. bradford imbroglio' into google and two old SI posts were at the top. Good to read Neocon again. :) The Bennett/Bradford fracas is the reason Bennett has never been too popular among conservatives.
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M.E. Bradford was in line to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1980, but his nomination was derailed by beltway neoconservatives. Bradford was an old school conservative who didn't care much for Lincoln, they couldn't stand for that. They propped up Bennett as the preferred candidate. Too bad, Bradford was a genuine scholar.
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Bennett's resume was a little thin

>>Mr. Bennett started off his academic life with a doctoral dissertation in philosophy at the University of Texas; the dissertation was all of a whopping 129 pages long, with only 10 pages of footnotes and a mere 13 items in the bibliography.

In the humanities, at the graduate level, that's unacceptable—indeed it's barely acceptable for undergraduates. Most dissertations run to 200 or more pages, and if they don't, they're rejected.

How he got away with it isn't clear, but, as one scholar who's read it tells me, "It may be the only thing Mr. Bennett ever wrote on his own." In 1980 he published a book on affirmative action that apparently was really written by "co-author" Terry Eastland. That set the future philosopher on his course to stardom.
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