Later chronicles report that Ignatios had excluded Bardas from communion because he maintained an incestuous relationship with one of his daughter-in-laws, but the real reason for Ignatios's deposition was probably the patriarch's staunch refusal to tonsure Empress Theodora against her will, as demanded by Bardas.

In response, Bardas and Michael engineered Ignatios's deposition and confinement on the charge of treason, thus leaving the patriarchal throne empty.

However, Pol Pot biographer David Chandler argues that the bombing " had the effect the Americans wanted – it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh ".

Waldo Dunnington, a biographer of Gauss, argues in Gauss, Titan of Science that Gauss was in fact in full possession of non-Euclidean geometry long before it was published by János Bolyai, but that he refused to publish any of it because of his fear of controversy.

Austen biographer, Claire Tomalin, argues that Sense and Sensibility has a " wobble in its approach ," which developed because Austen, in the course of writing the novel, gradually became less certain about whether sense or sensibility should triumph.

William's biographer David Bates argues that the former explanation is more likely, explaining that the balance of power had recently shifted in Wales and that William would have wished to take advantage of the changed circumstances to extend Norman power.

Smith's biographer, Mark Stuart, claimed that Smith could have won Labour a Parliamentary victory in 1997 on a similar scale to that achieved by Tony Blair because of the combination of the Black Wednesday debacle and ongoing Conservative divisions over Europe between 1992 and 1997 ; however, Stuart argues that the lack of a Blair effect would have meant that the Conservative Party would have held slightly over 200 seats in the House of Commons, leaving the Conservatives in a position similar to that of Labour in 1983 than to the actual Conservative result in 1997.

Another Holliday biographer, Gary L. Roberts, argues that it is unlikely that an infant as young as two months would have undergone cleft palate surgery in that era, as most operations of this type were postponed until the child was around two years old.

That was the point ( as biographer V. Novikov argues ) when a glimpse of new, clean life of a respectable international actor and performer all but made Vysotsky seriously reconsider his priorities.

As his biographer Nicholas Shakespeare argues: " He tells not a half truth, but a truth and a half.

If the director ’ s dealings with Rainer " who used to involve Fellini in futile discussion " were problematic, biographer Kezich argues that while rewriting the screenplay, the Dolores character grew " hyperbolic " and Fellini decided to jettison " the entire story line.

Hemingway biographer James Mellow argues the genesis of the story began during Hemingway's honeymoon with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, and shortly after his divorce from Hadley Richardson.

The chief contemporary authority for the life of Photios is his bitter enemy, Nicetas the Paphlagonian, the biographer of his rival Ignatios.

Another biographer, Bevis Hillier, sent him a forged letter which was included in the book.

Although Jefferson wrote that Congress had " mangled " his draft version, the Declaration that was finally produced, according to his biographer John Ferling, was " the majestic document that inspired both contemporaries and posterity.

One biographer called these diaries as " the most important single political document in twentieth-century Canadian history ," for they explain motivations of the Canadian war efforts and describe other events in detail.

A loyal subscriber since 1961, Reagan said it “ helped me stop being a liberal Democrat ,” calling it " must reading for conservatives who want to know what is really going on in Washington, D. C ." During the 1980 presidential campaign, Democrats released a document entitled " Ronald Reagan, Extremist Collaborator — An Exposé ," in which, according to biographer Lee Edwards, " mong the proofs of Reagan's extremism was that he read the conservative weekly Human Events.

As of 2011, Miss Mercy is working closely with an author / biographer to help document her life.

" LaGuardia represented a dangerous style of personal rule hitched to a transcendent purpose ," according to Thomas Kessner, LaGuardia's biographer.

In Mao: The Unknown Story, Mao biographer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday estimate that perhaps 27 million people died in prisons and labor camps during Mao Tse-tung's rule.

He eventually becomes Basil's associate, friend, and personal biographer.

Koestler and others viewed it as a true believer's last service to the Party ( while preserving the little amount of personal honor left ) whereas Bukharin biographer Stephen Cohen and Robert Tucker saw traces of Aesopian language, with which Bukharin sought to turn the table into an anti-trial of Stalinism ( while keeping his part of the bargain to save his family ).

The biographer Ibn Khallikan writes, " Historians agree in stating that father and family belonged to Duwin < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >.... They were Kurds and belonged to the Rawādiya ( sic ), which is a branch of the great tribe al-Hadāniya ": Minorsky ( 1953 ), p. 124.

Austen biographer Claire Tomalin speculates that Austen may have begun this book, which is more explicitly comic than her other works and contains many literary allusions that her parents and siblings would have enjoyed, as a family entertainment — a piece of lighthearted parody to be read aloud by the fireside.

Sharon Tate's biographer, Greg King, holds a view often expressed by members of the Tate family, writing in Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders ( 2000 ): " Sharon's real legacy lies not in her movies or in her television work.

Koestler and others viewed Bukharin's testimony as a true believer's last service to the Party ( while preserving a small amount of personal honor ) whereas Bukharin biographer Stephen Cohen and Robert Tucker saw traces of Aesopian language, with which Bukharin sought to turn the table into trial of Stalinism, while keeping his part of bargain to save his family.

And Blixen's biographer, Judith Thurman, was told by the developer who bought the farm from the family corporation that he planned to name the district after Blixen.

Bach's biographer Forkel explains the Quodlibet by invoking a custom observed at Bach family reunions ( Bach's relatives were almost all musicians ):

Her biographer, Jan Dalley, believes that, " Unity found life in her big family very difficult because she came after these cleverer, prettier, more accomplished sisters.

" While another biographer, David Pryce-Jones, added: " If you come from a ruck of children in a large family, you've got to do something to assert your individuality, and I think through the experience of trying to force her way forward among the sisters and in the family, she decided that she was going to form a personality against everything ".

In Lapela, Parish of Cabril and municipality of Montalegre ( Portugal ), the land where allegedly the nickname Cabrilha originated ( allegedly pronounced at the time Cabrilhe in Galician and Cabrillo in Spanish according to João Soares Tavares, biographer of João Rodrigues Cabrilho ), and still existing in Portugal as a surname ( because of this Castro Daire, in Beira Alta, was also claimed as his birthplace ), there is the ancient house called today by local people and alleged local descendants of branches of his ancient family, the same surname ( Rodrigues Cabrilho ), as Casa do " Galego " ( House of the " Galician ") and Casa do " Americano " ( House of the " American ") where allegedly Cabrilho was born, as stated on a plaque where there is also a statue of him.

" His biographer David Dutton believes that Dunglass became interested in politics because of the widespread unemployment and poverty in the Scottish lowlands where his family lived.

The biographer Ibn Khallikan writes, " Historians agree in stating that father and family belonged to Duwin < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >.... They were Kurds and belonged to the Rawādiya ( sic ), which is a branch of the great tribe al-Hadāniya ": Minorsky ( 1953 ), p. 124.

Joan Cashin, the biographer of Varina Howell Davis, said that Benjamin gave the Davis family a gift of $ 12, 000.

A biographer wrote that Rose did not confide in her friends and that she pretended Rosie was normal, as relatives beyond the immediate family knew nothing of Rosemary's condition.

One Kennedy family biographer called her " absolutely beautiful " with " a gorgeous smile ".

She was born into a family described by one biographer as " solid, patriotic, and middle class ".

Grady McWhiney, the principal biographer of Bragg's early life and career, states that despite these rumors, the Bragg family was law-abiding.

The first scholar to write a complete account of her life was a French biographer Frederic Masson, who was allowed by d ' Ornano family to use her memoirs.

Purvis said his grandparents Badaraka and Judah had married, his biographer thought that unlikely, given the social prominence of the Judah family in Charleston.

The Brewer family has been prominent in Massachusetts for 200 years, including James Brewer ( 1742 – 1806 ), an early American patriot leader and businessman, Gen. Wilmon Blackmar, a Civil War medal of honor winner, and Wilmon Brewer, a poet, biographer, and philanthropist.

Wolseley himself, according to his biographer, took no offence at the caricature and sometimes sang " I am the very model of a modern Major-General " for the private amusement of his family and friends.

Most of Colby's family and his biographer viewed a suicide as completely inconsistent with his character.

The epithets of each baron were coined by John Smyth of Nibley ( d. 1641 ), steward of the Berkeley estates, the biographer of the family and author of " Lives of the Berkeleys ".