| Presidential candidates, possessed of more abundant airtime, perhaps, than ideas with which to fill it, are the Dorothy Parkers of misquotation and misattribution. |
| Dale then underlines Kojeve as the single most important source of the misattribution. |
| His students and disciples extensively edited his papers, often confusing them with works by other writers, in many cases leading to misattribution and confused transmission. |
| The practice of misattribution has a long history, but it has thrived in recent years thanks to the Internet, where minor falsehoods metastasize at an alarming speed. |
| For connoisseurs of such cock-ups, the misattribution will perhaps be most reminiscent of East Germany's 1956 blunder in issuing a Robert Schumann stamp with a score in the background that happened to be by Schubert. |
| Erne spends most of the chapter going through each misattribution in medium-scale detail. |
