costalpilot
Active Member
In his USA Today article detailing and explaining his experience as Paterno's biographer in those whitewater days of his fall, Posnonski says this:
"But I had come to write a true book. That was what mattered. I have done my best to do that."
I have not read his entire book, but I have read the chapters dealing with the Fall and death of the man and myth. Just in those I found enough to say, imo, the author has failed miserably to write a true book. Maybe he did try his best. Maybe there are other, less sinister reasons the author would shave facts that shine dark lights on his hero. Maybe his fascination has completely overcome his ability to see, think, and write straight. and so he has innocently painted a deceiptful picture. it could be.
at this point I dont know. i thought i knew, but now Im not so sure.
the wall street journal reviewer mentions the conning of Posnonski as an explanation. could that even be possible? is hero worship and hero aura really that powerful? it seems impossible, really. yet history is riddled with examples of it gone wild. so maybe posnonski is innocent after all. maybe this sophmoric whitewash was as true a book as he could write, with his perceptions dimmed by a close encounter of the first kind: hero worship.
that possibility is actually the most scary.
"But I had come to write a true book. That was what mattered. I have done my best to do that."
I have not read his entire book, but I have read the chapters dealing with the Fall and death of the man and myth. Just in those I found enough to say, imo, the author has failed miserably to write a true book. Maybe he did try his best. Maybe there are other, less sinister reasons the author would shave facts that shine dark lights on his hero. Maybe his fascination has completely overcome his ability to see, think, and write straight. and so he has innocently painted a deceiptful picture. it could be.
at this point I dont know. i thought i knew, but now Im not so sure.
the wall street journal reviewer mentions the conning of Posnonski as an explanation. could that even be possible? is hero worship and hero aura really that powerful? it seems impossible, really. yet history is riddled with examples of it gone wild. so maybe posnonski is innocent after all. maybe this sophmoric whitewash was as true a book as he could write, with his perceptions dimmed by a close encounter of the first kind: hero worship.
that possibility is actually the most scary.