The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman

Absorbing and affecting study of a fascinating man who became something of a tragic Zelig of the Cold War: close to Burgess at Cambridge, MacArthur in Japan, Nasser in Egypt, work and relationships scrutinized and distorted by Hoover and Morris, too much for the touching loyalty of Lester B. Pearson. Extensive but subtle re-enactments function more as illustrations to an essay, building to a beautifully realized account of the final hours before Norman's suicide. He went to the movies.