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In the Washington Post , Susan Cheever questions the "understanding" the Dickeys reach at book's end, as does Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of the New York Times, who claims "the book offers incomplete catharsis."
A few defend Morris: His unorthodox technique captures Reagan's contradictions and makes for "a very strange, very interesting, very exasperating book, full to bursting of both lies and honesty" that calls to mind some of fiction's most masterful unreliable narrators, such as "the madness of Nabokov's Charles Kinbote" (Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes a solidly positive review: "I can think of few conventional political biographies that bring their subjects' pasts so richly alive" (the New York Times ). But the Times ' other reviewer voices the conventional wisdom, calling it "a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book" (Michiko Kakutani).
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt departs from the critical pack, declaring that "this mesmerizing book shows women in such astonishing variety that no cliché or generalization about the sex will ever again suffice" (the New York Times ). (View a collection of the photographs here.)
The New York Times ' Christopher Lehmann-Haupt calls the compilation "fluff," while the New York Review of Books ' Elizabeth Hardwick thinks that its tone suits its subject.
St. Johns law professor and Sunday poet Lawrence Joseph's anthology of conversations with New York attorneys is deemed humorous but "pointless" (Rob Long, the Weekly Standard ). Reviewers say Joseph is "good at catching the way people talk" (Christopher Lehman-Haupt, the New York Times ) and his characters "are first cousins to David Mamet's or Eric Bogosian's ranters" (Philip Lopate, Esquire ). But beneath the froth the book offers little insight into the way lawyers work, Long says; it's really about "what colorful New Yorkers talk about when they're trying to be colorful."
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