The recent run of writers and historians facing allegations of plagiarism surfaced has seen some of America’s best-loved authors and journalists exiled to the hall of shame that also includes steroid-popping baseball players and former Enron executives. But some writers seem to have an unusual ability to bounce back from such charges, even when their veracity seems indisputable. Take the case of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is embarking on a major book tour three years after she paid an undisclosed sum to settle an embarrassing lawsuit alleging plagiarism. Why is a major publisher still taking it’s chances with a known copier? “Because she has a charming personality, because she has powerful friends, and not least of all because she writes like a dream.”