![]() ![]() David Yallop recently demystified Carlos the Jackal as a rather humble gun-man a book last year alleged that President Kennedy was accidentally shot by a clumsy bodyguard. Everybody wants a piece of poor Marilyn - the sheer volume of books written on this tragic woman attest to that. Marilyn Monroe: The Biography is written intelligently and concisely and is positively saturated in interesting details. Only geometricians are more obsessed with new angles than publishers, and, after the long supremacy of nudge-nudge, government cover-up texts, we have entered an intriguing new phase of non-conspiracy-theory books. Donald Spoto has a reputation as a good biographer, and it is well deserved. The book's main business is to rubbish the ones that have come before, and, specifically, Anthony Summers. To be fair, Spoto's volume has a structural justification for being a late entrant to the field - or funeral lawn - of Monroe scholarship. ![]() At 750 pages, Donald Spoto's is this month's heavyweight contender. But the copywriter must have known that, with Monroe, every pen is at best the penultimate. ![]() ![]() THE paperback edition of Anthony Summers's 1985 book Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe carries the flash: 'The ultimate biography of the ultimate star'. ![]()
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