Word: debunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slyly barbed study that might pass for one of Lytton Strachey's lesser portraits of eminent Victorians. British Author Arthur Calder-Marshall has done the best biography yet of the self-made sage of sex. It is not Author Calder-Marshall's purpose to debunk, but nearness lends disenchantment with a man like Ellis. The heroic side is that, leading from utter weakness, Ellis helped win such a signal victory for the study of sexual deviations as to rob posterity of its need...
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. The best biography so far of the quirky genius; a work that describes and evaluates, but does hot try to debunk...