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Originally Posted by charlene
Well you will miss out on all kinds of other factoids/info/cultural references/stories about TO/Canada on their own as well as how they relate to Lightfoot...it's not an autobiography. In some ways Lightfoot plays a very minimal part of the book.
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right on, char.... putting the photo of Gord on the cover (why not a page split with Henderson, Trudeau, etc) was a likely lucrative move the the publisher
i had read that the publisher asked him to write it...DB pondered it first (I admire that)...red, don't confuse my unconditional love for exploitive publishers with passionate Canucks like Mr. Bidini ...he's got a nice growing portfolio that included taken on some of the country's most revered persons and topics ... as for journalists, I browse very entertaining and somewhat anonymous blogs and internet comments for no fee... I feel for the industry and am glad authoring books and/or selling their rights helps to better make ends meet for our local, hardworking columnists and reporters
anyhow, don't judge a book by it's cover (i just made that up!)
i didn't but many likely did....
as for DB, yeah, i'm probably still partially scorned at his comments about their need to cover The Wreck because Gord's version hadn't sufficed when it came to creating a suitable mood to capture the horrors of that evening... I'm paraphrasing... perhaps even simply speculating... just like the book does
