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(This according to the third volume of Stephen Ambrose's Nixon biography, Nixon: Ruin and Recovery .)
It was Dowd, after all, who wrote the story of Frank Sinatra's alleged affair with Nancy Reagan, as chronicled in Kitty Kelley's biography of Nancy, on the front page of the New York Times . (Dowd protests that the piece was an assignment and, quite rightly, that editors, not reporters, decide what goes on Page One.)
I quote from Page 151 of Meredith Oakley's biography On the Make: The Rise of Bill Clinton :
This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)
The breathless enthusiasm of Gerald Marzorati's review in the New York Times Book Review ("not simply the finest rock-and-roll biography ever written.
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