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...like Baker, believed that economic sanctions would bring Iraq to heel. Just two days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Cheney was pushing for American troops to go in to defend Saudi Arabia. "Dick was probably ahead of his military on this," Bush wrote in his and Scowcroft's memoir, A World Transformed. Cheney was dispatched to Saudi Arabia for one of the most sensitive missions of the war, persuading King Fahd to agree to a massive deployment of U.S. forces in the region--425,000 troops as it turned out, by January...
What becomes a legend most? Apparently these days it's a book about a battle with a chronic illness. Rumors swirled last week that bidding for MICHAEL J. FOX's memoir about his 10-year struggle with Parkinson's ended north of the $4 million mark. It will join bookshop shelves already bulging with brave tales of celebrity indisposition, including Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike, detailing his struggle with testicular cancer, and in September, Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught MS and Didn't Tell Nobody, by David Lander of Laverne & Shirley...
...apartment's exterior, on 490 Pilsudski Way, is identical to his and the other two dozen or so squat brick buildings that make up the Old Colony projects. As I sit on the futon, squinting in the dim light to make out the words of his best-selling memoir All Souls, the familiar street names and locations seem to jump out at me. Outside, I can hear the children playing and adults chatting on stoops, just as they have done for decades...
...eloquent memoir about his father's struggle with Alzheimer's--Hard to Forget (Random House, $25)--writer Charles Pierce describes his dismay at the often savage sparring among scientists that he witnessed firsthand. It made him "want to throw things," he writes, "to scream at all these brilliant people that I didn't care a damn about which one of them got to be first as long as someone was." And yet, as Tanzi observes in his soon to be published account of the Alzheimer's wars--Decoding Darkness (Perseus, $26)--there is another way to look at the extreme...
...with his wife, even though both are only in their 30s, described his wife's best quality this way: "She's a very hard worker." Other clients send regretful messages via their bios: they wish they had been better parents; they apologize to friends for a betrayal. "In the memoir culture right now, there's so much confession," says Tyler. "We're just a part of that." Maybe. But the Cassitys are also poised to extend that memoir culture, for better or worse, into all our deaths...