Late Bloomers

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Summary: Sad research
Review: .....and flippancy made me glad I could see the book before almost buying it.

It was a dissapointment dispite the hopeful title. Really does a number on Mary Baker Eddy at a time when probably the best researched book on her life, by Gillian Gill, has just come out the last year and corrects many a falacy. This perpetuates bad scholarship and is simplistic about many a complicated life, for example Coco's unfortunate collaboration with Nazism during the war.

Rating:
Summary: Extremely superficial coffee-table book
Review: A one-page "biography" per person, many of whom truly don't qualify as "late bloomers" at all, unless we take a "late bloomer" to signify a person who didn't die young. But that's beside the point, the point is, the book is way too superficial, it's truly useless, it communicates no interesting information whatsoever. And at such a degree of, so to say, chronological compression, it's no wonder.

A piece of junk, really.

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Summary: Late Bloomers Need History Lesson
Review: This is not a review, but a warning that early on, the book will lose its credibility. There is a profile of Harry Truman - one of the late bloomers. The author (I assume) has the years of Harry Trumans presidency wrong. Bad enough the book tilts to the literary/art crowd (guess all those failed authors are being hopeful), but no one at the publisher caught this. A problem for those publishing executives that only took english lit courses is that they have ignored the basic facts of history

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Summary: heard taped version and found it inspirational
Review: though i would have liked to have seen more detail on each individual . . . inspirational and got me thinking: i still have a long way to go . . . in fact, we all do!