LYNDON: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY by Merle Miller; Putnam; 645 pages; $17.95
Merle Miller is a novelist, journalist and author of the 1974 bestseller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. What is an oral biography? Essentially, it is a dramatic device to present a subject through an arrangement of quotations threshed from hundreds of interviews. The result is documentary folklore in which the leading character—usually described as larger than life—does not stop growing simply because he is dead. Miller's Truman emerged as the most uncommon common man ever to say...
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