As for the current fashion for biographies of contemporary political figures, historians view this as "front line" work in the writing of history, by which the opinions of contemporary persons are first recorded; but defining each person's place in the rolling tide of history is something that must wait many decades or even centuries, until historians can make judgements on the basis of more comprehensive investigation and more stringent proof.
至於目前蔚為風潮的當代政治人物傳記風，在學者眼中，算是寫史的「先鋒」工作，先留下當代人的紀錄與觀點；至於各個人物在滔滔歷史洪流中的定位，則還有待數十、甚至數百年後，由歷史學家以更全面的關照和更嚴謹的考據來論斷。