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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
When I make a post, however, I try to give you the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hopefully, there's not much of the bad and ugly in a book--I try not to post any book with those. But, at the same time, if I have any reservations about a book, I want to express them. I have one concerning this book: in the book description, the author is called an "award-winning biographer." Maybe she is, but it seems a little odd that, according to the dedicated webpage at Amazon for the author, this is the only book of hers sold at Amazon.
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I picked it up for free, but I found it odd that there's basically nothing on found on web searches for Hewitt, except for this, and a few hits for roughly 100 page bios on Einstein and Cleopatra. I find that a bit odd, too, since I think most biographers specialize, for example, contemporaries in the revolutionary war or civil war, or ancient Rome, because it takes a lot to figure out how to do research for any given era. If it wasn't free, without any sense of who Florian Hewitt is, and what sort of credentials he has. BTW, is there something in the book that indicates the author's gender? From my limited experience with this unusual name, Florian is usually male.
With the probably bogus claim to be award-winning, as well as not being able to find out anything about the author, there's no way I would have paid for this book.