Why Is Mary Archer so Desperate to Silence Me? ; the Wife of the Crooked Peer Is Usually Happy to Talk About Her Life but When a Writer Started Her Biography, the Legal Threats Began Flying ...
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Last August, Mary Archer went to an important appointment in New York with high powered publisher Jack Romanos, the president of Simon Schuster and a man who had once published Jeffrey Archer's novels. But Mary did not want to discuss publishing books with Romanos. She wanted to discuss getting one stopped: my book telling the story of her life.
The subjects of unauthorised biographies are often unhappy about their stories being told without them being able to control it. Most of us have some aspects of our lives which we would prefer were not examined in public.See the full content of this document
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Why Is Mary Archer so Desperate to Silence Me? ; the Wife of the Crooked Peer Is Usually Happy to Talk About Her Life but When a Writer Started Her Biography, the Legal Threats Began Flying ...
However, very few of these disgruntled subjects go to the lengths Mary Archer did: making direct appeals to the president of a publishing house; making legal demands to see all the material I had accumulated; and even accusing me of accessing private records to help get interviews.
So why is Mary Archer reacting this way? First, because she is someone who likes getting her own way. She wants to be in charge unchallenged and unopposed. Second, because she hates the fact that somebody is writing an independent book that details the paradox of her life with Jeffrey. She is a woman of remarkable achievement in her own right but also the wife of one of the most dishonest and engaging politicians in post-war British history.It is difficult for her, as it would be for most people, to accept that she is married to a convicted crimi...See the full content of this document
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