Monday, July 18, 2011

Finding Everett Ruess is getting media coverage

Two things: 1) my copy of "Finding Everett Ruess" by David Roberts is enroute (stay tuned for a book review) and 2) the book is getting some play on my google alert for Everett Ruess.  The reviews are pretty favorable but I don't think they are coming from anyone I would consider a Ruess expert.




Speaking of reviews ...

I recently thumbed through "The Mystery of Everett Ruess" and was sorely disappointed. I didn't read a book description before buying it online but it is safe to say that is a repackaged version of "Vagabond for Beauty." It did have  an updated prologue by the Waldo Ruess family that is worth reading.


p.s. The online versions of my thesis at Scripd.com and Google Docs are experiencing technical difficulties. I hope to have them fixed soon.
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2 comments:

  1. Philip FradkinJuly 23, 2011 at 10:34 AM

    For those of you who are interested in David Roberts and my biographies of Everett Ruess, see the review in the current issue of Outside magazine and then consider the following letter I sent to the editor of the magazine: "I question the ethics of a magazine that assigns the review of two biographies of Everett Ruess to a contributing editor (Bruce Barcott), given the fact the book judged far more favorably by him was written by David Roberts with a forward by Jon Krakauer, both longtime contributors to Outside. Clearly favoritism and a conflict of interest were involved, while I was dismissed as a grouchy historian."

    Philip Fradkin

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  2. Nathan E ThompsonJuly 25, 2011 at 10:38 PM

    I would have questioned their ethics as well. Thanks for pointing this out and calling them to the carpet.

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