The jury was out on Roy Cohn when I first met him. It
will be out on him for as long as he is remembered, but
on that spring afternoon in 1964, metaphor had
nothing to do with it. A jury of twelve was trying him
for perjury and obstruction of justice, and after three
days of deliberation the word was out that they were
going to put him away. Roy Cohn was about to be
history. I thought it was a perfect time to go over to
the Federal Courthouse and rag him a little.
I was a rookie reporter on the New York Post, then
the most liberal paper in town. During the flush days
of Joe McCarthy, the Post went after him fists flying.
This attracted me to the tabloid in my college days
when too many Establishment newspapers cowered
before Tailgunner Joe and his banty little mouthpiece
Cohn. But I had no assignment to work over Roy as he
awaited his verdict. Not from editors, that is. Mine
came from a higher authority: the Rosenbergs and all
the victims of McCarthyism.
He was standing on the steps of the courthouse,
talking to a few guys, none of them with notebooks
out. The reporters had obviously exhausted every
angle by now and had left him alone with his cronies.
I introduced myself, flashing my press card. He didn t
give the card a tumble, he shook my hand and said,
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评分从结构上看,作者采用了非线性的叙事手法,这使得整本书读起来像是一幅由无数碎片精心拼凑而成的马赛克画。一开始可能会感到有些跳跃,信息密度极高,需要读者保持高度的注意力去梳理时间线和人物关系网。然而,一旦适应了这种节奏,就会发现这种结构极大地增强了悬念感和探索欲。每当感觉自己快要掌握全貌时,作者又会抛出一个新的时间点或者侧面视角,迫使读者重新审视之前建立起来的判断。这种处理方式,非常巧妙地模拟了真实生活中对一个复杂人物进行全面了解的过程——它不是线性的、整洁的,而是充满了岔路和回响的。这种高强度的智力参与,让阅读过程本身变成了一种挑战和乐趣的结合体。
评分不得不说,这本书的语言风格极其犀利,充满了力量感。它不像某些传记那样温吞水或过于学术化,而是带着一种咄咄逼人的坦诚,甚至在某些段落,那种近乎挑衅的语气让人不得不停下来仔细揣摩其背后的深意。作者在处理那些敏感话题时,展现出一种近乎冷酷的客观性,不回避冲突,反而将冲突作为推动情节发展的核心动力。每一次观点的交锋,都像是精密的击剑,招招直指要害。这种阅读的快感,很大程度上来源于作者对文字精确的把控,每一个用词都恰到好处,既烘托了氛围,又精准地传达了信息。对于那些喜欢那种充满火药味、毫不妥协的叙事风格的读者来说,这本书绝对能带来极大的满足感。它不是在“讲述”历史,而是在“重现”一场场没有硝烟的战争。
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