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Old 02-26-2019, 01:07 PM   #423
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
True. I was thinking in more general terms about the types of books, and it would seem to me that memoirs rather nicely fall into this category, since they're clearly retellings from the person's perspective and an impartial, external observer might well have seen things a bit different.
I was thinking more about historical people or events as told by a third party (Wolf Hall as an example, although I wouldn't nominate that) and not a memoir unless there's independent sources and it's know to be highly fictionalized, but that's what makes horse races.
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