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The LAT sees political manipulation instead, calling Clinton's remarks "part of a determined effort by the White House to change the subject," and saying it was "stage-managed to put the President in the best possible light," and also referring to Monday's speech on the global economy as "a carefully choreographed appearance."
Thoroughly staged and stage-managed, they're dramatic, or perhaps melodramatic, precisely because of the artificial structure of their formats.
Praise is tempered with complaints that the book is "entertainment, not literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker ) and that the ending is artificial and "stage-managed" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ). (Read an excerpt from the book here, and read Jacob Weisberg's review in Slate .)