"Professor Weinberg came up with an important subject for a book.
I know of no other that fulfills his goals . . . . There is a lot
of useful information in The Untold Story for the
would-be biographer."--Nieman Reports
"A lively, inside account of how contemporary biographies are
researched and written by journalists, who have brought fresh
insight and methods of documenting the facts to a genre dominated
(until recently) by university scholars."--Magill Book
Reviews
"Steve Weinberg . . . reveals a passion for techniques of
ferreting out both paper trails and obscure people hidden in the
woodwork . . . The book succeeds at three levels. It is at once
a history of biography writing . . . . The book works as a kind
of anthology, reprinting high-interest periodical profiles . . . . The
book works as a primer on investigative reporting."--Editor
& Publisher
