Sentences with phrase «dramatic lynchpin»

The dramatic lynchpin of Hannah's script comes from a surprising coincidence described in Graham's 1997 Pulitzer Prize — winning autobiography Personal History — that the Washington Post Company was in the process of going public the week that the executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) got his hands on the Pentagon Papers and began working on a front - page story about them, disobeying instructions from Nixon's Justice Department.