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All the Problems With Isaacson's Musk Biography

Author was 'trying to write a Great Man book,' and it shows, argues Elizabeth Lopatto at the Verge

(Newser) - Walter Isaacson is an illustrious biographer who's probed the minds of Alfred Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Steve Jobs, to name a few. His latest 670-page biography of Elon Musk, however, is threatening the journalist's reputation for accuracy and fairness, as Elizabeth Lopatto contends at the Verge . She gives...

Tucker Carlson: I Know Why I Was Fired
Tucker Carlson:
I Know Why I Was Fired
NEW BOOK
Jul 26, 2023 2:22 PM CDT

Tucker Carlson: I Know Why I Was Fired

He says it was a condition of defamation settlement, despite Fox's denial

(Newser) - Tucker Carlson says he "knows" his firing from Fox News was "a condition" of the $787.5 million settlement Fox agreed to pay to Dominion Voting Systems to resolve a defamation case. Fox and Dominion have denied the claim. Still, the former prime-time host says Fox "agreed...

Biographer: Melania Stalled WH Arrival to Rework Prenup

Unauthorized bio by 'WaPo' journo Mary Jordan says first lady is more like Trump 'than it appears'

(Newser) - The "untold story" of Melania Trump is on the horizon, and the White House isn't happy. The Art of Her Deal , an unauthorized biography of the first lady by Washington Post journalist Mary Jordan, is out Tuesday, and the Post has a copy. In the nearly 300-page book...

Reagan Biographer Who Mixed Fact With Fiction Dies

Edmund Morris won a Pulitzer for Theodore Roosevelt book

(Newser) - Presidential biographer Edmund Morris, best known for writing a book about the life of Ronald Reagan in 1999, has died. He was 78. Sylvia Jukes Morris, his wife, said he died Friday in Danbury, Connecticut, a day after suffering a stroke, the AP reports. Morris' career took off with the...

Barbara Bush Came Close to Killing Herself

The former first lady talked to biographer Susan Page about her struggles

(Newser) - Barbara Bush's depression ran so deep, she considered driving into a tree or an oncoming car. That's when she would pull over. "I felt terrible," she told Susan Page for The Matriarch, a new biography coming out Tuesday. "...I mean, I felt really depressed. I...

Marriage Proposal to Michelle Wasn't Obama's First
Why Obama Split With
His Ex Before Michelle
NEW BIOGRAPHY
May 3, 2017 9:57 AM CDT

Why Obama Split With His Ex Before Michelle

In biography, David J. Garrow asserts race was a factor

(Newser) - At 1,460 pages, David J. Garrow's new biography of Barack Obama is no quick read, including details down to the student evaluations he received while teaching at the University of Chicago. Rising Star paints Obama as a man making calculated choices in the course of a lifelong pursuit...

Bill Cosby's Biographer Admits Mistake

Mark Whitaker says stories are 'shocking,' 'horrible' if true

(Newser) - The most glaring omission in Cosby: His Life and Times, Mark Whitaker's biography of Bill Cosby released Sept. 16: the myriad sexual assault claims against the comedian dating back decades. Whitaker was yesterday called out by David Carr, who wrote in the New York Times that "those in...

Michael Jordan: 'I Considered Myself a Racist'

He was 'against all white people,' he says in new biography

(Newser) - Soon after the death of Michael Jordan's great-grandfather, who had been a cook at a whites-only hunting club, a schoolmate of Jordan's called him the n-word. "So I threw a soda at her," Jordan reveals in Michael Jordan: The Life, a biography by Roland Lazenby released...

New York Times Leads Pulitzers With 4 Wins

Adam Johnson takes fiction prize for 'The Orphan Master's Son'

(Newser) - The New York Times flexed its journalistic muscle today with four Pulitzer Prizes, including investigative reports on Apple and Walmart's use of bribery in Mexico, the AP reports. The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel won the public service Pulitzer for coverage of reckless driving by an off-duty police officer. The AP...

Paula Broadwell Failed Her Readers




 Paula Broadwell 
 Failed Her Readers 
OPINION
Nov 13, 2012 11:31 AM CST

Paula Broadwell Failed Her Readers

Biographers weigh in on Petraeus affair

(Newser) - Paula Broadwell's fellow biographers are predictably unhappy that the author "violated the bond of trust" between herself and her readers by having an affair with the subject of her book, David Petraeus, writes Laura Miller on Salon . Opinions from two biographers Miller spoke to:
  • James McGrath Morris: "
...

Obama Secretly Sucks at Basketball
 Obama Secretly 
 Sucks at Basketball 
new biography
Jun 11, 2012 6:41 PM CDT

Obama Secretly Sucks at Basketball

David Maraniss biography slams his high school game

(Newser) - President Obama, crappy hoops player? We've assumed he's good— biographer Jodi Kantor and NBA stars have said so—but an upcoming biography by David Maraniss begs to differ, Politico reports. As a prep school student in Hawaii, Obama made the team "more because of his intense passion...

Bill Wants Hillary to Take On 'Amateur' Obama: Book

Clintons denounce author Edward Klein as a 'known liar'

(Newser) - Bill Clinton considers Barack Obama such an "incompetent" president that he begged Hillary last summer to quit the State Department and run against him in 2012—or at least, that's the story a new, unauthorized Obama biography is telling. "Barack Obama is an amateur," Clinton is...

Mitch Winehouse Writing Amy Winehouse Biography
 Dad Writing 
 Winehouse Bio 
Oct 11, 2011 5:50 AM CDT

Dad Writing Winehouse Bio

Amy, My Daughter will tell singer's true story, Mitch Winehouse says

(Newser) - Mitch Winehouse is writing the story of his daughter's life, with all proceeds going to the charity set up in her name, the BBC reports. In Amy, My Daughter, to be published next summer, he will "bring the many layers of her life together—the personal, the private,...

Steve Jobs' Official Bio Due Next Year

iSteve: The Book of Jobs penned by former CNN exec Walter Isaacson

(Newser) - The rumors are true: The first authorized biography of Steve Jobs is on its way. iSteve: The Book of Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, is being written with Jobs' cooperation—unlike earlier books on the Apple CEO. Isaacson, an ex-exec at CNN and Time magazine and author of biographies of Benjamin...

Cops 'Stood Back' After Threats to Malcolm X: Book

Columbia's Manning Marable dies just before release of major biography

(Newser) - Columbia professor Manning Marable spent 20 years working on a groundbreaking biography of Malcolm X but died yesterday, just three days before its release. Scholars who have read Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention say it presents the most definitive look yet at the black nationalist leader's legacy, reports...

Mohandas Ghandi Biography: Book Says Indian Independence Leader Was Politically Inept, Self-Important, Sexually Deviant
 Gandhi Was a 
 Big Jerk, Perv 
Book Review
Mar 27, 2011 8:48 AM CDT

Gandhi Was a Big Jerk, Perv

Biography seeks to end hagiography of the leader of Indian independence

(Newser) - Mohandas Gandhi may have been a great man, leading India to independence, but he was also a great jerk, leading a life of racism, self-promotion, sexual weirdness, and cruelty—or so says the new biography Great Soul, by former New York Times executive editor Joseph Lelyveld. Gandhi's early biographers dubbed...

Michelle to Carla: Being First Lady Is 'Hell'

Two new books will likely embarrass both first ladies

(Newser) - Just in time for election season, a story Michelle Obama can't possibly be happy to see: In a new book, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy claims Obama told her that being first lady is "hell. I can't stand it!" (The White House and the French Embassy in Washington deny that Obama...

Book: Dieting Landed Gaga in Hospital 6 Times

'She refused to eat for weeks'

(Newser) - Lady Gaga's drive to be über thin and her bizarre, extreme diets have landed her in the hospital six times, according to a new biography of the singer. Gaga wolfed down masses of unhealthy foods then would go for weeks without eating, according to former tour manager David Clemmy,...

Joe McGinniss Spills on Summer in Wasilla

An 'undercurrent of fear' grips Palin's town

(Newser) - When Joe McGinniss moved in next door to the Palins on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, "Mama Grizzly" was furious . But, McGinniss claims, the rest of the town welcomed him. He's heading home to Massachusetts today to write his book, and talks to the AP about Palin's politics and the "...

Nazi-Hunter Wiesenthal Worked for Israel

Biography counters belief that Israel didn't actively go after Nazis

(Newser) - Simon Wiesenthal wasn't the one-man Nazi-hunting organization he was seen as, but a longtime agent of the Israeli secret service—who, contrary to what has long been believed, played an active role in locating Nazis, according to a new biography. Author Tom Segev, whose Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends...

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