Title: Not a Good Example of Biography
Product review: The book, Mae West, An Icon in Black and White, was one of the worst biographies I have read in recent memory. The whole premise of the book is that Mae West's grandfather may have been black. There is not a lot of proof given, just conjecture. Just because Mae was friends with Bert Williams and he visited her home, and that Mae enjoyed jazz, doesn't make her black. People of different ethnicities can enjoy many features of the culture of other ethnicities but they don't have to be of that ethnicity to enjoy it! You don't learn a lot about Mae the person from this book. Everything is discussed in racial overtones. There has to be some other books out there on Mae that will give folks a better idea of what she was like as a person.
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