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Can't recall the title, but there's a short scifi novel I remember reading about a rich man who has his most illustrious ancestors brought into the present (don't recall if it was by cloning, time travel, or something else), so that he can show off how great they were and boost his own image. Then it turns out they're a bunch of jerks, brutes, and/or criminals whose misdeeds had been conveniently "forgotten" by family historians.