Word: memoire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memoir, For the Record, former White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan wastes no time before dropping his biggest bombshell. "Because actions that would otherwise bewilder the reader cannot be understood in its absence," writes Regan in a foreword, "I have revealed in this book what was probably the most closely guarded domestic secret of the Reagan White House...
WASHINGTON--Donald T. Regan '58, former White House chief of staff, yesterday released a memoir portraying President Reagan as a hesitant executive controlled by a scheming, image-conscious First Lady who depended heavily on an astrologer's predictions...
...Friday, however, Reagan expressed irritation about Regan's memoir, the latest in a series of "kiss-and-tell" books about Reagan's presidency. "He's chosen to attack my wife and I don't look kindly upon that at all," Reagan said...
...something is missing in the year of Bush and Dukakis. A week ago, about 800 people -- led by such old colleagues as Paul Schrade, Arthur Schlesinger, Cesar Chavez and Frank Mankiewicz -- gathered in Los Angeles to reflect on Kennedy's legacy. Said Jack Newfield, author of Robert Kennedy: A Memoir: "If you took the best half of Jackson and the best half of Dukakis, you would have half of Robert Kennedy...
...proud pose, curse like a sailor, kick like a mule, and," she advises, "you mustn't be a fool." Especially when your roads lead way off the beaten track. Morris is not one for a luxury cruise. Instead she opts for danger and discomfort. Nothing to Declare is a memoir of her travels in Central America, which she explores in the tradition of truth through squalor, using a Mexican slum as a base camp. Despite occasional lapses into over- studied eloquence, she is a fascinating guide, with an eye for the brutal, the garish, the silly and bizarre...