RaveThe Wall Street JournalAn impressionistic, besotted portrait that has the obsessiveness of your favorite deep-dive podcast ... Zehme leans into Carson’s incongruities with unconcealed pleasure. Zehme made his reputation writing about celebrities for Rolling Stone and Esquire with discursive brio and high style ... An ode to an inscrutable man, a thoughtful appreciation for how Carson’s televised presence reassured a nation as he sent us off to dreamland.