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Originally Posted by HarryT
If Phogg is referring to Robert Service the historian, he is most famous for having written a biography of Leon Trotsky which got absolutely slated by the academic community for being riddled with factual errors, and for falling prey to later propaganda of the Stalinist era which aimed to discredit Trotsky. A German historian led a campaign in academia to try to prevent the book from being published by an academic publisher in Germany because it was so worthless as an academic work.
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I refer to the poet.
Much appreciated by academia for his Paris literati parties, yet generally derided by that same academia for the mass appeal of his poetry.
Rare talent often sparks envy.