Title: A dull, fumbling book!
Product review: I can't imagine anyone remoting liking this book unless they have a doctorate in history and a desire to suffer in dusty archives. Pakula, a very famous and wealthy woman in her own right, seems to be turning out these biographies as a hobby. According to her acknowledgements, she employs a great many people to sweat out the research for her, do the unpleasant footwork, and then file and collect and piece the ton of information together. This may work as a vanity project for some celebrity authors, but for Pakula the disjointed and extremely uninspired result is all too obvious. There's simply an endless listing of dull, lifeless facts falling together to make a book. There's absolutely no developed dramatic narrative, no depth of analysis or feeling for what might have been of far more interest to the reader. Pakula may have the ambition of her literary brother, Boorstin, but she certainly has none of his talent or his hard-won individual voice or style.
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