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Lucid is of course superfluous when a writing is edited by willam zinsser

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This book gives its readers new insights into the lives of some of this nations most prominent figures through the eyes of six wellknown biographers

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The process took him two sabbaticals years of correspondence and meetings with mabel loomis todds daughter millicent todd bingham to uncover the whole truth

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Nagel said that contemplating the development of ideology is good training for a biographer

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Ronald steel said that the hardest job a biographer has is not to judge his or her subject however most fail to keep their judgements out of the biography

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In jean strouses the real reasons she explains that the modern biography examines how character affects and is affected by social circumstance

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This is not recommended for all biographies but in a case such as hers it needs that biographers voice to connect all the information for the reader

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It shows the difficult research processes and makes the reader want to either write a biography about an interesting person or never want to write again