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If allowed I would post no stars for Ms. Solomon's dishonest and irresponsible biography. I read this biography with interest, and then deep disgust. Innuendo replaces facts and there is a sleaziness in this biography that offends any careful reader who is looking for information about the man rather than ill founded sensationalism. This author suggests that Rockwell was a repressed gay man because he was skinny and that being gay led to secret pedophile feelings because he painted kids - ignoring the fact that children were one of the favorite magazine cover themes of the 1930's. If the subject of your work reveals your hidden sexual preferences than I suppose Andy Warhol was a secret, repressed heterosexual for all those paintings of Marilyn and Jackie, and that Sir Edwin Landseer who painted dogs was into bestiality. This book would be laughable if it wasn't so libelous. No wonder this writer was purportedly fired from the NY Times for distorting and recreating her interviews with Tim Russert and others. And no wonder Norman Rockwell's family who gave this woman their trust are now angry about this vicious and distorted biography. Filled with improvised facts and absurd theories Ms. Solomon admires the art only to use it to demean the man. What some people will write to make a buck. Shame on Ms. Solomon and shame on her editors for not fact checking this book, and for permitting slanderous suppositions to pass for critical observations.