Jack D. Foner (1910-1999), American historian; brother of Moe Foner and twin brother of Philip S. Foner; father of Eric Foner
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Philip S. Foner (1910-1994), historian and political activist; author and editor of over 100 books; brother of Moe Foner and twin brother of Jack D. Foner
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Moe Foner (1916-2002), American trade union activist; brother of Jack D. Foner and Philip S. Foner
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Eric Foner (born 1943), American historian and former head of the American Historical Association; son of Jack D. Foner
Further charges were levied in May 2003, when labor historian Mel Dubofsky accused Foner of having "borrowed wholesale from my then unpublished dissertation" on the Industrial Workers of the World for use in Volume 4 of his History of the Labor Movement in the United States.
Foner is responsible for writing the speech which President Clinton himself recorded at the White House.