Goofs, Gaffes, and Everything In-Between: Nonfiction Considers Mistakes

About three years ago I reviewed the book Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by Greg Pizzoli. If you missed it, it was a true crime picture book (a rare beastie) about a man born Robert Miller who turned to a life of conning. Ultimately it ends with him in prison but it was intriguing to me that someone would write a picture book biography of, ostensibly, a “bad guy”.

Fast forward three years and the country is a different place. Different president. Di...