I asked Chatty for the best book on the history of the discovery (or invention) of the dinosaurs in the first half of the 19th century†, and it came up with The Dawn of Dinosaurs by John R. Horner, published in 2005. The title struck me as odd (I would have preferred Dawn of the Dinosaurs), and it appears the book doesn't exist, Chatty had made it up.
But that turned my attention to Jack Horner, a very important figure in paleontology (at least in the USA), who has discovered various T-rex skeletons and dinosaur eggs and whatnot, and so I watched a couple minutes of a lecture he gave in 2001, which left a peculiar impression (I mean his personality), and then I read his Wiki page and was not disappointed to find my impressions totally confirmed by the article …
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Horner_(paleontologist)
Can't fault him for liking young girls, that's human nature, and he had the money to be a customer of Jeffrey Epstein; but isn't it curious how he didn't allow dyslexia from stopping him to rise to the top of the field? And what does it say about a field (at least in the USA) if such characters somehow manage to rise to the top? Could it be there is a (well-funded) system that facilitates their ascent? Because they have just what it takes to fulfil the role?
That, of course, should not reflect negatively on whatever paleo findings were made on the lands of your grandparents.
† Chatty next suggested The Dinosaur Hunters by Deborah Cadbury (Terrible Lizard for the US edition), which I found on AA and which seems to do a proper dive into history as is essential to find the truth of the matter.