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Dolly: Daughter of the South

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Interesting book the author has interviewed Dolly old teachers; the doctor that delivered her visited her grandfather's church. She has spoken to old school mates and dates as well as many people around the Nashville music industry. She has achieved a better understanding of Dolly that the large number of interviews I have read and viewed. Dolly is remarkably consistent in her answers over a 35 year period interviewers rarely find anything new about her because they keep asking all the old questions.
About a quarter of the book has dramatised reconstructions of key events which I would have preferred to be straight narrative. Much of the material cross checks with Dolly's own autobiography which was written much latter. The porter years are given a far better coverage that Dolly own book.
The author does not have an axe to grind and has striven to understand the unique person that Dolly is. That she bought the farm (for her parents) that her parents had lost when she was 13 before she bought a house for herself is just one insight into the person she is. The book also gives the background to Jennies afraid of the Dark. For any Dolly fan this is a book well worth getting it is not exactly expensive.
Paul Potter