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“You have to use your eyes,” she said. “Use your eyes to see the story.”
Cook touched upon this idea of adjustment with his last anecdote, a sad story about his second kiss. He explained how a girl he liked as a kid turned him down because, as she said, they “couldn’t communicate.”
“The Devil and Mr Casement” succeeds in bringing the principal players of the story to life in brisk, unadorned prose, and with frequent recourse to historical sources. We cannot help but share Goodman’s obvious admiration for Casement, who had established his humanitarian...
Goodman’s account of these events is commendably clear, but he often presents the story and its characters in reductively simple terms. As the book’s title suggests, Goodman frames Casement’s clash with Arana as a battle between good and evil, between defenders...
It is important to recognize Casement’s immanence within the imperial system, even as he was enraged by the abuses it engendered, and pointing out this ambivalence would not undermine Casement’s achievement as a campaigner, nor cast doubt on the authenticity of his humanitarian sentiment...