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Philip Gefter
Rave The Washington Post Lively, well-researched ... Convincing ... Gefter relies on interviews, newspaper and magazine articles from the era and Lehman’s extensive archives at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin to explore in depth the challenges they faced.
Jonny Steinberg
Rave The Washington Post A powerful, intimate and ultimately heartbreaking account ... Painstaking detail ... Many of the details in Steinberg’s masterful account have long been public knowledge thanks to court cases, newspaper articles and previous books. But his supreme contribution is in his ability to portray clearly and critically Nelson Mandela’s flaws and Winnie Mandela’s crimes, while expressing sympathy and understanding for both their courage and their pain.
Edward White
Positive The Washington Post ... thoughtful and nuanced ... White argues with cogency and passion ... White doesn’t hesitate to redistribute credit where he believes it is due, especially where Reville is concerned, but he also concedes that Hitchcock’s films reflected his distinctive sensibility ... White...grasps Hitchcock’s enduring hold on our aspirations and our fears.
Sam Wasson
Rave The Washington Post Sam Wasson...[has] a novelist’s eye for complex characters and a natural storyteller’s feel for scenes, dialogue and richly revealing details ... Wasson, in The Big Goodbye, weaves a tale in a voice that is intimate and sympathetic, yet critical ... Poetics...blossom throughout Wasson’s narrative, adding beauty and charm, though his prose occasionally overheats. He doesn’t shy away from nailing his characters’ fatal flaws and flagging trajectories ... Wasson’s book is an utterly stylish and entertaining ode to a bygone era and the gifted but troubled people who made it memorable.
Ronen Bergman
Positive The Washington Post ...authoritative and exhaustive ... Many of the stories Bergman offers are not new, but he adds telling details. Still, after a while the accounts begin to blur and the chapters start to read like an endless police blotter. Call it, literally, \'Israel\'s Greatest Hits\' ... Bergman paints a chilling portrait of the evolution of the assassination program.
Seymour M. Hersh
Positive The Washington Post Just as there are few books about the inner workings of sausage factories, good books about the making of journalism are few and far between, and Hersh’s memoir is a welcome addition. Still, some of the stories read as if the author, who recently turned 81, were in a hurry to catch a plane. Most disappointing is his perfunctory treatment of the damage that the digital revolution has done to the profits that once financed his kind of painstaking, labor-intensive reporting.