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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 .)
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."