A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Legend In His Own Minefield
A Legend In His Own Minefield
The Most Hated Book in Amazon History, and How I Came to Write It

The Most Hated Book in Amazon History, and How I Came to Write It

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 28, 2015
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A Legend In His Own Minefield
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The Most Hated Book in Amazon History, and How I Came to Write It
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So there I was in 2003, newly (a year before) relocated to the United Kingdom, bored senseless, and without an income. An editor from a publishing house that specialized in music biographies remembered me from when I stopped Led Zeppelin in their tracks, and took me to lunch in Soho, over which he asked if I’d like to write a book for him. Actually, I w…

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