Hartig, who now lives in Costa Rica, contends the book isn't solely about swimming, or aquatics, or raising athletes.
Despite - and in a sense because of - this archival abundance, Sluyter must contend throughout the book with tricky epistemological and evidentiary issues.
His wife and family contend that the book is filled with factual misstatements, and paints too bleak a picture of his life.
Sharif and others contend that the book fails to differentiate between the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks and other, mainstream followers of the Muslim faith.
But Mr. McNamara contended in the book, "The CBS network mistakenly portrayed Westy as having lied to the president and me".
But Mr. Semler contends that the book's title reflects his goal more accurately -- and that his approach has the added advantage of almost forcing people to have more rounded lives.
When Mr. Hamilton tested positive in 2004, shortly after winning a gold medal at the Athens Olympics, he initiated a costly legal and public relations challenge to the test, but not, he contends in the book, because he was clean, as he claimed then.
And, in relation to Africa and emerging markets he contended that the book has "a real place there" because people want help and advice.
She contends that the book celebrates adoptive parents and caregivers, in the form of Horton, but vilifies birth mothers, in the form of Mayzie.
Geithner breezily contended that the book was irrelevant in any case, since "we were operating outside the boundaries of established precedent" -- which apparently means they didn't feel bound by legal restrictions.
