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...change from “Cap the Knife”—an unflattering moniker he had earned for cutting public spending during the 1970s—to “Cap the Shovel.”Renowned as an anti-Soviet hawk, Weinberger explained in his 2001 memoirs, “In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century,” that he believed that the military buildup was consistent with his reluctance to commit forces abroad.“I did not arm to attack,” he wrote. “We armed...
...DIED. JADE SNOW WONG, 84, author and ceramicist whose 1950 memoir of her immigrant childhood, Fifth Chinese Daughter, painted a vivid picture of San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th century; in San Francisco. Wong wrote the book in her mid-20s after abandoning plans to become a social worker, opting instead to pursue her talent for pottery, which she later described as a means of making herself "free of Chinese culture's relentless subjugation of women...
Rudy Wiebe, author of more than 20 works and two-time winner of the Governor General?s Literary Award, has fashioned a career writing of Mennonite life in Canada?s west. In fact, many of his books are based on, or inspired by, his own family. His newest, the memoir Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (Knopf Canada; 391 pages) delves into his childhood in a remote Saskatchewan community...
...obesity does not evoke deprivation, and it's more complicated than a bad habit: it involves food. The old messages won't work, says veteran Democratic operative Michael Berman, whose new memoir, Living Large, chronicles his struggles to come to terms with being fat. "This is different from second-hand smoke, where you can have a program of abstinence. You can give up smoking. You can't give up eating...
...wins. This year?s Pixar short is One Man Band. But I?d give an outsider?s chance to John Canemaker?s The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation. The director is a popular animator and historian, and this is his Squid and the Whale: a pained, funny memoir of his demanding father (voiced by Eli Wallach...