Quote Originally Posted by PeaceNHarmony View Post
My guess is that the amateur quality has largely to do with projected sales figures, budgeting by the publisher and lack of writing and editing skills on the part of the subject. Fact is outside of these forums, public awareness of HDH is near zero. Probably best would be for a skilled biographer to have interviewed each separately [[in addition to their contemporaries) then composed a trio-biography, in the vein of Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us. Add into the mix the fact that memories are selective and subjective, even minutes after an event: compound that by years, decades, and a demi-century, then leaven with readers' tendency to interpret a subject's statements to their own preconceived notions and essentially we are left with entertaining stories that may or may not be factual. True historians and serious biographers can also be subject to their own preconceived notions but will at least make the attempt to refrain from publishing statements unless there are multiple corroborative memories.
Well written; makes sense