Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary

"This is an excruciating account of the desperate, proprietary instincts her life caused in its first documentarians....[Melnick] accurately shows the quite single-minded way all involved with the play...manipulated the rather gullible Frank....The problems with Melnick's telling of this story are manifold....Melnick's book reads like a doctoral thesis or, if you prefer, the detailed pretrial notes of an unimaginative defense attorney, with no attempt made to entertain the general reader."Melnick, Ralph is the author of 'Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary', published 1997 under ISBN 9780300069075 and ISBN 0300069073.