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...MANY BOOKS HAVE BEEN written about the O.J. Simpson case that it is time to start piling them into separate little stacks. There are the quickie tell-alls from peripheral characters (Kato Kaelin, Faye Resnick). There are the tell-alls from major players who have little to say and mediocre co-writers (Madam Foreman, by several jurors, belongs here, as does O.J.'s own I Want to Tell You). There are the joke books (O.J.'s Legal Pad being one of the better entries in this category). And now all the previous works can be tossed aside with the arrival...
...books reflect their authors' public personas. Darden's autobiographical memoir is brooding, complex, ambitious and at times emotionally overwrought. He has a habit, for instance, of referring to Simpson with an unprintable epithet. Shapiro takes a more measured, if Hollywoody, approach. But in both works, details of the lawyers' behind-the-scenes machinations remain strangely compelling. Darden describes a jaunt to the Bahamas, where he unsuccessfully pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals...
...author notes that F. Lee Bailey's "reputation for hard drinking was still alive and well," then describes Bailey rambling one night after a few drinks. He continues to suggest that Bailey was the defense-team sieve, responsible for leaking stories to the New York Daily News and Simpson's original police interview to the tabloid Star, an interview in which, according to the Darden book, a disoriented Simpson was unable to explain his cut hand and unwilling to take a lie detector test. "I'm sure eventually I'll do it," Simpson tells detectives Philip Vannatter and Tom Lange...
...Darden blames himself. One of the more wrenching sections of In Contempt involves Darden's description of the glove demonstration, which was his idea. Vannatter's "sausage fingers," he writes, slid easily into the glove, but after Simpson struggled before the jury to put it on, Darden was frozen out of the case. "People ask me now would I do it again," Darden writes. "No. Of course...
ELIZABETH GLEICK thought she had had enough of the O.J. Simpson case after writing two cover stories and half a dozen shorter pieces about the most chewed-over trial in recent history. So she was pleasantly surprised when she read the new books by prosecutor Christopher Darden and defense attorney Robert Shapiro. "Both were amazingly interesting," says the TIME senior writer, who reviews the latest crop of O.J. titles in this week's issue. "Their behind-the-scenes stories were full of tales of blood and private anguish." Gleick, who describes herself as a devoted Court TV watcher, interviewed Shapiro...