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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Subtitle: Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography Author: Carl E. Rollyson Narrator: Chris Abell Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 03-25-15 Publisher: Carl Rollyson Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "We used to canonize our heroes," Oscar Wilde wrote. "The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable." Since Wilde's condemnation of modern biography, the genre would appear to have accelerated its descent into bad taste. As Carl Rollyson points out, writers as various as Rebecca West, Ted Hughes, and Joyce Carol Oates have deplored biographers' tendency to cut up lives and render the bloody data so as to make their subjects seem unhealthy, unwholesome, and unsound. Janet Malcolm has compared biographe