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Dr. Robert Atkins: The True Story of the Man Behind the War on Carbohydrates
From Publishers Weekly
This disappointing bio isn’t sure if it’s meant to dig up and reveal scandal or to study a business/diet plan/trend in American culture and the man behind it. Atkins (1930–2003) is the man behind the low-carb …
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9:22 am on January 14th, 2010
I agree with Publisher’s Weekly. This bio/business book by Lisa Rogak on Atkins the diet doc, is not sure what it wants to be when it grows up (a measly 224 pages of text in big print.) Part trashy/dishy tabloid reporterage, part chronicle of the diet trends surrounding the Good Doctor, it also contains agGrandizement for the Grand Old Party (Republicans – p.95 – proselytizing a view not universally shared.)
Rogak’s credibility is questionable. “Facts”" weren’t checked. For instance: “And QVC, the cable shopping network, offers a `Low-Carb Hour` several times each week.” Lisa, Lisa. Maybe you should have at least consulted a Program Guide? Sometimes, she `ain’t got no’ sense of syntax, as in: “Normally, the law prohibits medical examiners from releasing these records to no one…”
And worst of all: THERE ARE NO PICTURES!
Better: The recent Atkins Biography on A&E TV.
/TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer, “Doing Atkins” down 50 pounds.
10:07 am on January 14th, 2010
Apparently the reviewer from PW read a different book from the one Lisa Rogak wrote…. Her book on Atkins was funny, juicy,informative… and really a tribute to the man who was so ahead of his time. I loved the different faces of Atkins revealed, the surprising and sometimes a little shocking facets of the man’s personality. Also, revealing the fact that Atkins was a proponent of alternative medicine left me wanting to know more. Atkins was a risk taker, a man who dared to be different. Rogak gives us all the personal tidbits that existed behind the public persona who was that man. I love the diet… and I love Rogak’s book!
11:06 am on January 14th, 2010
Dr. Atkins changed dieting and the diet industry single-handed. Now you can discover the amazing man behind the well-known name in this riveting biography. This story is so thoroughly researched and well-written, I could hardly put it down. I’m looking forward to reading much more from this author!