Another Oprah Book Recommendation Goes Bust

December 30. 2008

Oprah Winfrey

Uh oh! Oprah Winfrey’s book club is in trouble again. The afternoon talk show host has been placed in the middle of another scandal, after revelations surfaced this week that a bio book she recommended titled "Angel at the Fence" is a complete fraud, as in never happened. This marks the third scandal to hit Oprah’s book club, tarnishing the brand. This wouldn’t happen to you guys if you would read magazines instead of books (I’m kidding).

Obama: maybe you should let me pick your books. I could get the Secret Service to vet them for you.

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Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story

On Saturday, Berkley Books canceled Rosenblat's memoir, "Angel at the Fence," after he acknowledged that he and his wife did not meet, as they had said for years, at a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where she allegedly sneaked him apples and bread. The book was supposed to come out in February.

Rosenblat, 79, has been married to the former Roma Radzicky for 50 years, since meeting her on a blind date in New York. In a statement issued Saturday through his agent, he described himself as an advocate of love and tolerance who falsified his past to better spread his message…

Rosenblat's believers included not only his agent and his publisher, but Oprah Winfrey, film producers, journalists, family members, school children and strangers online who ignored, or didn't know about, the warnings from scholars and skeptics that his story didn't make sense. …Winfrey fell, as she did with James Frey, for a narrative of suffering and redemption better suited for television than for history.

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