DiLorenzo the pseudo-scholar

Crackpot Thomas DiLorenzo's book The Real Lincoln (in an early edition, later changed) actually printed a long racist quotation supposedly from Abraham Lincoln; not only did it turn out not to be Lincoln's words, but it was actually a quotation of one of Lincoln's detractors that Lincoln went on to refute.

Turns out that DiLorenzo's work continues to live up to his high standards of accuracy.

It's sad, really. His early work on the history and political economy of the Sherman Antitrust Act was  interesting and original. But his subsequent kookiness casts so much doubt on his scholarly standards that one feels nervous even citing the early good stuff.