How about this?

There isn’t a problem here. And it’s not that people can’t get past their prejudices, it’s that people read a book about real life event where a man wound up dead due to misadventure. Whether you come away from the book thinking he lived his life well and died in a noble way, or you read the book and think ‘Well, that…

Settle down Beavis. Not every reader comes away from a book with the same perspective as the author.