RaveThe Wall Street JournalDisquieting ... Mr. Cohen is a discerning guide through a chain of events that unfold with the numbing inevitability of a bad movie ... Mr. Cohen steadies the grim churn of events with tact and underlying moral revulsion ... Mr. Cohen’s gifts as a storyteller are ample.
Bill Zehme
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.
