Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Bad Stuff

Accusing someone of plagiarism in public is always a difficult issues. In other words, you'd better be pretty damn sure before you say anything. That's why I was so surprised to see the recent review in Harpers claiming that this book was, for all practical purposes, ripped off from a previous Cummings biography (by Kennedy) which is still in print. I won't recap the entire thing here, just issues this review as a warning and suggest you read the May 2005 issue of Harpers. Sawyer-Laucanno, while he wouldn't exactly admit that he stole material from the oprevious book, he did admit that he couldn't explain how the similarities occured... and Sourcebooks also refused to take any responsibility. It's an interesting read, but my advice would be to just go with the original biography by Kennedy since he's the one who seesm to have done all the original research for both volumes.