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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are these Charles River things real books, or just copy and paste from Wikipedia? I've had a quick look at on via Amazon's "Look Inside", and it all seems very amateurish.
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I don't think they're quite that bad, but they are limited. If you know nothing about a topic, you'll pick up some information in short order.
As with any of these written-to-order imprints, some books are better than others. I think it's partially the skill of the author and partially the topic, the better defined, the better the results are likely to be. I read one last year, a biography of Nathan Hale (our first spy), and it was reasonably scholarly and informative.