“I’d walk in to interview [Eisenhower], and his eyes would lock on mine and I would be there for three hours and they never left my eyes.”

—The late historian Stephen Ambrose telling C-SPAN about the writing of his biography of President Eisenhower.

Except it turns out that the vast majority of those alleged interviews never happened. Ambrose, whom we already know is a plagiarist, now proves to be a liar. The unfortunate thing is he’s one of the great shapers of how many Americans understand their history.