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Fair Game
Denis Brian
其他書名
What Biographers Don't Tell You
出版Prometheus Books, 1994
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralEducation / Schools / Levels / HigherEducation / Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsFiction / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Writing / General
ISBN08797589969780879758998
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=R90ZAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Biographer Denis Brian turns the tables on fellow biographers and makes them "fair game". Meticulously interviewing and researching celebrity biographers Truman Capote, Kitty Kelley, Charles Higham, Bob Woodward, and Joe McGinniss, Brian raises questions regarding their techniques and the veracity of the resulting works. By knowing about their lives, their motives and methods, readers can decide for themselves if the biographies they read are to be trusted. Brian also focuses on four biographers from the recent past who wrote controversial biographies about Woodrow Wilson, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and T. E. Lawrence. Fair Game encourages readers to go beyond the gossip and salacious details of many contemporary biographies by showing how biographers construct their histories and how their personal prejudices and research methods often color the results.