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Best tell-all ever?
« on: February 11, 2009, 01:39:44 PM »

Offline Hoyo de Monterrey

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All the talk in the media lately seems to be about the classic "tell-all" book or secrets revealed in a tell-all or blah blah blah... I've always wondered who would have the BEST tell-all book of all time.

CB, if you could chose someone to write a definitive tell-all book about a given life or situation, who would it be? (Other then Edgar's, I think that goes without saying)

I'd probably go with someone like J. Edgar Hoover. Interesting goings-on there.
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Offline crownsy

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if were going sports, its already been written IMO, and its Ball four.

Not because its shocking in todays world of crazy athletes (though it was hugly shocking when it was written), but because it simply wasen't done at the time, and it was pretty earth shattering to baseball. also, its funny as hell.

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Offline fairweatherfan

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That's a great question, TP for you.  And Hoover is an excellent choice, as long as he left out the pictures (you know which ones).

I think my choice would have to be Moe Berg, a baseball catcher turned World War II and Cold War spy.  Here's his Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Berg

Really a fascinating story, and made more interesting because Moe refused to write or say anything about his time working for the government, and took his oath of silence to the grave.