I’ve since finished reading it, and as B.W. Barnett indicated, the closing argument was awesome. What was especially noteworthy were some very compelling inferences from the evidence Bugliosi drew for the jury, inferences which had not occurred to me despite my familiarity with the evidence from the first part of the book. In that important sense the closing argument presented a “surprise ending” in line with the best detective stories. Something that was staring you in the face all along is finally revealed in its true significance. Of course, I like to think if I had lived with and thought about the case for as long as Bugliosi did these inferences might have occurred to me at some point too.