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She Said Yes acknowledges this in a backhanded way, with the caveat that "the exact details of Cassie's death ...
But to have a gentle black giant hang his head and say "Yes, Boss," while almost every guard in a Louisiana prison circa 1935 is portrayed as a forward-thinking, tolerant humanist is the biggest backhanded slap I've seen in a studio movie in a long time.
Perhaps the best backhanded compliment is provided by another New York Times review, this one from the daily paper: Richard Kluger writes that the book has "only occasional spasms of the immodesty that almost by definition infects all who venture into autobiography."
Rauch strikes back, gleeful in his further discovery of docudramatic distortion in Reich's backhanded self-aggrandizement.
Professor Ashley writes: “I cannot pretend to do justice in one section here to a subject that George R. Stewart almost failed to cover adequately in his Names on the Globe .’ That turns out to be a backhanded compliment, but Professor Stewart himself, an author who showed us all what could be done by way of literary style in his Names on the Land , would never have written such a sentence.