Word: memoire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defection to the Soviet Union, for which he had been spying since the 1930s, and his death last week at 76 of undisclosed causes, Philby's legend grew to mythic proportions. Still active in the KGB, where he rose to the rank of general, Philby wrote a cryptic 1968 memoir, My Silent War, and gave only a handful of interviews. Yet his life and those of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, two fellow British double agents whom he helped escape in 1951, inspired countless plays, films, novels and biographies. In spy fiction if not reality, Philby's perfidy seems...
...Regan memoir is only the latest to bare the Administration' s inner workings. The White House cries "disloyalty," but the Reagans seem to bring it on themselves. -- Two conservative Washington insiders use leaks to tilt U. S. policy against the Soviets. -- Congress has exempted itself from a broad array of laws covering civil rights and safety requirements...
Joyce's otherwise informative memoir is marred by its self-serving tone, and his credibility is damaged by the dubious reconstruction of quotes, many of which make him sound suspiciously articulate. (Talking about Rather to a colleague: "Jesus, he's become like that ornamental vine from Japan, the kudzu, that was introduced in Georgia a few years ago. Now it's spread its tendrils all over the whole damned South . . .") What is more, Joyce rarely steps back from his day-to-day chronology to offer a larger perspective about TV news or even much useful introspection...
...rode through the February darkness along the Potomac to his Mount Vernon estate, he brooded about what had happened and determined to write a book. He had his meticulous notes put in a word processor and then brought in Novelist Charles McCarry, who helped Alexander Haig write his memoir, Caveat, to restructure the material...
COVER: An explosive memoir exposes some embarrassing White House secrets...