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Wilson has been visited by lobbyists for universities and groups who advocate for sufferers of various diseases. Fellow Republican lawmaker Charles Bass of New Hampshire gave her a chapter from Hatch's 2002 memoir Square Peg, in which the Senator explained his own conversion on the stem-cell issue. But the most compelling appeal, Wilson says, has come from a House Democrat--James Langevin of Rhode Island, an abortion foe who is also a quadriplegic as a result of an accidental gunshot wound suffered when he was a teenager. "When Jim Langevin talks to you about this," says Wilson...
...title of her memoir aptly describes the gulf Gray perceived between her and her parents. Her mother, the vain and extravagant hat designer Tatiana, and her stepfather Alexander Liberman, who rose to become the editorial director of Condé Nast, were dedicated to each other and to their mutual ascent in post--World War II New York City society, lavishing attention on friends like Marlene Dietrich and Irving Penn but often neglecting the young woman sharing their home. The book is a brisk, bittersweet and ultimately forgiving look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast...
...Rothman is too young to write a memoir, but he's also too young to retire--and he did both. Rothman, a TV comedy writer, moved to a retirement community in Florida to see what his life would look like in 40 years. His conclusion: "chaise lounges, thunderclouds, midsized sedans, tile floors and ear hair." While among twilight's own, he tries to save shuffleboard (even old people prefer tennis) and gets out-foulmouthed by seventy-somethings. But Rothman's only as funny as he is sad. The problem with lifetime friendships with old folks, he realizes, is that...
...Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard was cut out of the loop. One of his partners fled the U.S. after embezzling $200,000 from...
Some of the secrets of the magazine's success can be found in A Matter of Opinion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 458 pages), Victor Navasky's hefty memoir of a quarter-century at the Nation--first as its editor and, since 1994, its publisher and part owner. In tracing the colorful path of his career, which included founding the opinion journal the Monocle and stints as a writer and an editor at the New York Times, Navasky defends the relevance of ideological magazines across the political spectrum. "To me the problem is too little opinion, not too much," he writes, arguing...