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Times ' tradition of running stories at approximately five times their logical length might suspect that publication of David Shaw's opus, "Crossing the Line," was a deliberate scheme to hide news of its publisher's and editor's misbehavior by burying it inside a self-important and interminable narrative that almost no one would have the patience to read.
Only in a few places does Juneteenth attain the narrative velocity of Invisible Man . In a thrilling climax we finally hear the story of how Bliss came to be adopted by Hickman, and how Hickman was transformed from an Oklahoma City ne'er-do-well into a man of God (it hinges on a false accusation of rape, a lynching, and some amateur obstetrics).
The script, credited to Larry Gross, Paul Brickman, and Stephen Schiff (from a potboiler by Andrew Klavan), is often laughably schematic, but much of what's outside its ramrod narrative is masterfully orchestrated: the physical exam on Beachum that begins the film (he's in perfect health to be killed), the meetings between the warden and his guards on execution procedure, the testing of the different colored phones--one connected to the governor's office--outside the lethal injection chamber.
But the WP also has an excellent narrative of the mission, right down to a (literally) blow-by-blow account of the fist-fight in which the Mossad agents were captured.
There have been many great biographies written over the past couple of decades (Edmund Morris gets credit for writing one of them--his T.R. book), and there have been several great narrative non-fiction books.
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