Hawke wrote:



First I'll take you example of the Bible. The word bible comes from the
Greek word biblios or something close to that. It means a collection of
books. So the title bible tells exactly what the bible is.


What?????
How does that tell us that it is a collection of stories about people
throwing stones at glass houses????

That is what you seem to believe (at times)


Authors generally name their books with names that increase sales. So
to an author the purpose of a title may be to catch attention as well
as provide a way to identify the book.

That's true. A good, catchy title helps to sell a book.
Yes and it can be ironic, satirical, or even funny. Or it can have
meaning ONLY after you read the book, or even only after you read and
understand the book.





It's true that novels are the most likely to have a title that may not
tell you anything about what the book is about but in the majority of
books the reason for the title is to tell what the book is about. You
can argue about percentages but most book titles tell what they are
about or at least give you a clue to what it's about.
They MAY give you a clue, they may not. But you can not spring from
the "CLUE" to assuming it is a fact (as you do) without reading the
book.


Regardless, if you were SUCH a Dole expert, I am sure you would have
snatched it up and read it cover to cover, for it's "valuable"
insights that such a person who worked so "closely" with Dole must
have. So closely in fact that even 15 years later he (Hilton) is
still considered by you to be a subject matter expert on Dole.

And yet you didn't do more than glance at it, why is that. Perhaps
it is because you recognized that it is a piece of fluff, not an
authoritative work.
jk