"Macey has written a prodigiously researched, absorbing book about the mind and passion of a 20th-century revolutionary," Adam Shatz said here last year.

David Macey has written a prodigiously researched, absorbing book about the mind and the passion of a 20th-century revolutionary.

This prodigiously researched chronicle charts its subject's rise from Berlin gigolo to Hollywood director, one gifted - and contrarian - enough to cast Ginger Rogers as a 12-year-old nymphet.

Not that Alice Rains Trulock's prodigiously researched biography is perfect.

Blair has researched prodigiously and writes with authority.

The documentary - a production of Hudson River Film and Video, with Julie Motz as executive producer - is prodigiously researched.

Lanctot, a University of Delaware historian, provides a prodigiously researched account of organized black baseball from 1933 through the early 60's, when social pressures forced the major-league owners to integrate.

As always with Mr. Kammen, it is prodigiously researched and impressively erudite.

A prodigiously researched New Yorker profile reported last week that Hillary Rodham Clinton had some designs on succeeding her husband as Commander-in-Chief.

And Time magazine said that "Shilts' prodigiously researched 600-page book has been boiled down to a fact-filled, dramatically coherent, occasionally moving 2 hours and 20 minutes.