Lord Black's book on FDR
As I blogged earlier, I have been able to get to know Lord Black through helping him with some fact-checking/research work at the FDR Library last summer. I predict the book will be a best-seller.
Number one, these elephantine tomes on dead white men seem to sell like hotcakes -- presidential biographers like Robert Caro, Michael Beschloss, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Edmund Morris are but a few examples of authors whos books have been blockbusters.
Two, the reviewers are fawning over the book. (A very great feat given the great number of Black detractors that make up the cultural literati in Canada and the USA; and also given that snobby reviewers tend to look down on books like this not written by stuffy PhDs.) Publishers Weekly is calling it "the best life of the 32nd president in one volume - or of any length." Even the review in Saturday's Globe and Mail -- not exactly pro-Conrad journalistic real estate -- was overwhelmingly positive.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 10:36 PM
