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Gay Talese Isn't Alone: Why Aren't More Books Factchecked?

GETTING IT RIGHT

Gay Talese is only the latest red-faced author to publish a book replete with errors—errors a routine fact-check would have caught. Why doesn’t book publishing do a better job?

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