Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway
by Eve Golden
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Author: Eve GoldenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-03-31
ISBN: 0813121531
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
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Book Review: Great subject, but author in need of a good editor
Summary: 3 Stars
Eve Golden's book about Anna Held is an enjoyable light read. She provides a wealth of information about one of our first media celebrities. I liked the subject of this book tremendously, but had a big issue with the editing, or rather, the lack of it. Specifically, I was distracted by the inclusion of material in parentheses on nearly every page. Sometimes the verbiage in the parentheses was additional information and other time it was author's commentary. This material should have been moved to endnotes, incorporated in the text, or in the case of author commentary, eliminated. It was so distracting, that everyime I turned a page I found myself scanning for the multiple parentheses first! Ms. Golden is not a bad writer. In fact she is quite good. But honestly, were all the parentheses necessary?
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