Word: memoir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every weekend during the six years that he held various jobs in the 1960s Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Richard Crossman would retire to his 17th century country house near Oxford and dictate the week's experiences into a tape recorder. Nothing remarkable about that. Memoir writing -and now taping-is a well-developed art, and Wilson himself had published his bland prime ministerial recollections...
Melville's death brought Alpert high celebrity in radical circles as a sort of gold star widow of the left. For an Introduction to a book of his prison letters, she wrote a warm memoir of Melville that in passing chided him for his attitudes toward women. But as the radical movement disintegrated and feminism rose, her views about her dead lover hardened. He became a violent sexist who had manipulated her love in large and small ways, including once writing "wash me" on a refrigerator to remind her of her domestic duties. In 1973 she wrote a long...
...novel, Blood of the Lamb, Peter DeVries wrote obliquely about his daughter's leukemia. Stewart Alsop collected nerve and wits long enough during a remission to write Stay of Execution about his own plight before he died. Football Player Brian Piccolo's death became first a fond memoir by his friend Gale Sayers, then a TV film called Brian's Song. Now Freelance Writer Doris Lund offers Eric, a book about her son's successful four-year struggle to live courageously as this disease slowly destroyed...
...MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert M. Pirsig. A haunting memoir by a father who has recovered from a breakdown and tries to protect his young son from the man he once...
...memoir, Ives attempted to answer the question of why a man so in love with music would go so enthusiastically into business. "Father felt that a man could keep his music-interest stronger, cleaner, bigger and freer, if he didn't try to make a living out of it... If he has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances-answer that...