WASHINGTON: Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria, who acknowledged copying parts of a magazine article last week, appears to have also published a passage from a 2005 book without attribution.
Indian-American journalist Zakaria's 2008 book, "The Post-American World," contains a quote from former Intel Corp chief executive Andy Grove about the nation's economic power.
"America is in danger of following Europe down the tubes, and the worst part is that nobody knows it," Grove said in Zakaria's book, adding: "They're all in denial, patting themselves on the back as the Titanic heads straight for the iceberg full speed ahead." According to the Washington Post, the first edition of Zakaria's book, which became a bestseller, makes no mention of the comment's source, nor does a paperback version of "Post-American World" which was published in 2009.
In fact, Grove's comment was published three years earlier in "Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Power to the East," by former commerce department official Clyde V Prestowitz. Zakaria finally acknowledged Prestowitz in the footnotes of "The Post-American World 2.0".
Zakaria defended the practice of not attributing quotes in a popular book. "As I write explicitly (in the book), this is not an academic work where everything has to be acknowledged and footnoted," he said.
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