A review by bleonard
Cosby: His Life and Times by Mark Whitaker

2.0

I think I would have been much kinder to this book if I had read it before the recent events in Cosby's life. There's information here that I didn't know -- how he came to be an African American art collector, his philanthropic efforts, the tragic moments surrounding the death of his son -- but for the most part, it comes off as sycophantic, mostly boring, and cowardly. Whitaker says that Cosby came on late in the research process, and didn't give him much of his time -- so I wonder what kind of book this would have been if he hadn't been deferential to his subject.