Highly recommended for fans of biographical nonfiction and particularly for readers interested in music history and the twentieth century entertainment industry.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in biographies of controversial medical figures and in the history of psychosurgery as a treatment for mental illness.
Recommended for fans of nonfiction, particularly nonfiction that focuses on medical mysteries, outbreaks, and science, with the caveat that the author’s repetitiveness and tangents weakens the narrative.
The author’s humane treatment of the tenuous subject matter and exposé of the legal system’s challenges is thought-provoking even as it is entertaining.
Highly recommended for fans of nonfiction, of literary endeavor, of the history of English lexicography, of character studies, and of philologists everywhere.
