Title: Almost as bad as The Big Swingers
Product review: John Taliaferro seriously needs to do his homework in the future if he ever decides to write another biography. Aside from Taliaferro's condescending, ubiquitous attempts to paint ERB as a Hitlerite bigot (a position not supported by a less bombastic analysis of ERB's life and work), he riddles the book with so many factual errors both about ERB's work and about his life it almost reads like a novel parodying the subject's life rather than an attempt at bringing a world-famous author to life. I highly recommend avoiding this error-riden piece of tripe and suggest anyone wanting to know what ERB was like in real life read Irwin Porges' Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan. Although that book is immense, it provides a much more balanced view of a seminal author's life and work and avoids all the errors and sometimes downright lies Taliaferro inflicts on readers in this vanity exercise.
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