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by: Derek Lundy
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781550222340
ISBN: 1550222341
Label: ECW Press
Manufacturer: ECW Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 1995-03
Publisher: ECW Press
Sales Rank: 1758534
Studio: ECW Press
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Scott Turow is the well-known author of three huge best-sellers: Presumed Innocent (made into a movie with Harrison Ford), The Burden of Proof, and Pleading Guilt. Turow's life is traced, from his boyhood conflict with demanding parents, his early struggles as a writer, graduate school at Stanford in the turbulent early 1970s, a stint as a creative writing teacher, legal boot camp at Harvard, down to the triumphs of his three best-selling novels-coming from his own experiences as a criminal defense lawyer and ex-U.S. Attorney who prosecuted corrupt judges and officials in the Chicago court system-to his current work.
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Rating: - The Enemy of Biographies
Derek Lundy presents inadequate research, subpart writing, and ineffective objectivity in his biography of lawyer and novelist Scott Turow. Basing his entire book on one personal thirty minute interview and a scattering of book and magazine interviews and reviews, Lundy's biography is a complete mess. Without extensive cooperation from an author, it is extremely difficult to write a good biography. Yet, Lundy not only fails in his efforts because of an inexistent relationship with the author, but ... Read More
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