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...think we’re very envious of the Federalists. They’re very organized,” said ACS member Bruce L. Gottlieb ’97, who is also a Crimson editor...
...Gottlieb said it will also have to overcome any internal differences of opinion...
...other words, Clinton will tell it like he wants to tell it. He will prettify or disguise the porcine, barnyard truths, or turn their very ugliness to his own advantage. Autobiography begins as a project of self-justification, and, where politicians are concerned, ends the same way. Gottlieb faces a challenge...
...Autobiography presents a special editing problem. Whose life is it, anyway? The editor can guide, can suggest that the book needs more explanation here, more personal stuff there, and so on. Gottlieb had a lot to do with shaping Katharine Graham's memoir and making it the wonderful book it is. But le style, c'est l'homme, and nowhere more so than in autobiography, which, if you will forgive the expression, has a life...
...paradox of great autobiography is that it demands, above all, a kind of self-effacement - in the sense that the truth can only be presented self-effacingly. Words stick to a written page. Gottlieb has a hard job ahead...