Gilbert Cruz of Entertainment Weekly called the book ``half an account of Ken's life-halting obsession with reconstructing his mythical older brother and half the biography that David always expected as a soon-to-be-famous author.'' Matthew Sweet of The Independent wrote, ``Ken Dornstein's project--his researches and the book that they have become--is both a loving tribute to the memory of his dead brother and an act of destruction and erasure...
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