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"Unless I thought I could win the whole thing, I would have no interest," he tells the Times , which notes that The Donald has name recognition and an estimated worth of $1.
Bosworth, the biographer of Diane Arbus and Montgomery Clift, "provides a vivid sense of upper-middle-class life in the early Cold War years, when prominent citizens suddenly turned their backs on colleagues such as Crum and called them Communist dupes," writes Kathy Deacon in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Lingeman says Bosworth "tells her elegiac story in a tone that is admirably restrained, in prose that conveys strong feeling by understatement."
He tells this story with a vividness that I did not expect of him, with insight, some irony, and touches of gallows humor.
Thomas Bruder, one of the four officers accused, tells his story, blaming the others.
The protagonist, Steven Phillips (Brooks), is a middle-aged screenwriter whose three-picture deal is terminated by a callow executive (Mark Feuerstein) who tells him he no longer has his "edge."