and the International Hunt for His Assassin.” If that sounds like a graphic novel, well, you’re getting the drift. There’s still a line between narrative history and entertainment, in other words, and Hampton Sides flirts with it in his new book about James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, “Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. Slighting fresh research in favor of entertainment, however, means you end up with Abe Lincoln the vampire hunter. After all, mounds of new material don’t do much good if a book is too dull or dense a slog. But this is a worthy balance for popular history, I think. Stewart likes to say that his goal is to “inform and entertain,” a premise that might raise eyebrows in fustier quarters. When asked what he hopes to achieve with a book, the nonfiction writer James B.
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