This excerpt from Grantland's review reinforces what I was saying earlier:
In the end, what mattered to Walt wasn't family or even the money. It was control: over people, over expectation, and over his own narrative. This makes him a monster, yes, and a fool — and there was something about the way he didn't just jump off the edge of morality, but rather sprinted right past it without looking down, like another famous desert dweller — but also a terrible, terrible scientist. He won't accept an honest outcome because he's been dishonest about everything from the very start.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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