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Though the event was billed by the Harvard Book Store as a reading from Ellsberg’s new memoir about the Pentagon Papers, Secrets, Ellsberg spoke at length about last week’s Congressional resolutions supporting military action in Iraq...
...Mawdsley's self-important tendencies can make him a target for mockery, and his admirable if maddening memoir The Iron Road is, at times, a bull's-eye. In Burma, a nation where so many suffer, the 29-year-old Briton's willing decision to add his pain to the mix can seem self-indulgent and quixotic. And yet, ultimately, Mawdsley comes across, like Don Quixote, as sympathetic, even a touch heroic. His heart is in the right place, even if the rest of him never seems...
...will be a beautifully written, matter-of-fact, coming-of-age memoir,” said Jennifer Lang, the editor of Murray’s book...
...think there's been a time in the last 30 years that has so reproduced the events I was writing about, such as the assertions of presidential power to make war," antiwar activist Daniel Ellsberg tells PW. PW is dazzled by Ellsberg's new book, "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers," giving it a starred review. "Ellsberg's transformation from cold warrior and Defense Department analyst to impassioned antiwar crusader who released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in June 1971 makes a remarkable and riveting story that still shocks 30 years later...FORECAST: Broad...
Elizabeth L. Wurtzel ’89, the author, most recently, of More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction. Her previous books include Prozac Nation and Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women. I shall give this further thought, as the list is long. (Having only recently learned the difference between “further” and “farther,” it was exciting to make use of the former.) Below are a few things that are sort of metaphysical, although I think what you want are facts. But here goes: Why we need peppermint and spearmint...