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Title: The one and only Harpo Marx....and also a very nice man.
Review: I found a first edition of this book around 1967. And I enjoyed it tremendously. For a man who never saved photos or press clippings regarding The Four Marx Brothers, the stories told about Aleck Woolcott, the Algonquin RoundTable, were incredibly detailed.And this is where I have a problem with Harpo's book.In Joe Adamson's book, Groucho, Harpo,Chico--and sometimes Zeppo,it was pointed out that Harpo's memories were not all that reliable--one, he was born in 1888,not 1893--and some of his accounts were refuted by eye witnesses to the same.This is still a fine book, I just come away from it now with a different viewpoint--Harpo wanted you to read an entertaining account,in that it is not true,but true enough for one to know.By all accounts, Harpo was a very private man and all the while a garrulous personality.
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