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...What most adult lovers of the Winnie-the-Pooh books seem to know about author A.A. Milne is that through a combination of obliviousness and neglect, he saddled his only son Christopher with a perfectly awful childhood--a fact that rocked the world in 1974 when Christopher Milne's memoir The Enchanted Places first appeared. In it, the "real" Christopher Robin painted the portrait of a father who was cold and remote, with whom thrice daily visits were a matter of pro forma routine. He also revealed his youthful anguish and embarrassment over a notoriety he was never able...
...Sorrow and Hope. Despite the rapidity of its printing (the epilogue is dated March 1996, and it was published on April 8) and its pamphlet length (180 undersized pages), the occasion on which this book seeks to capitalize is considerably more serious than the O.J. trial: it is the memoir of Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, the same one who spoke so movingly at his memorial service in November...
...books reflect their authors' public personas. Darden's autobiographical memoir is brooding, complex, ambitious and at times emotionally overwrought. He has a habit, for instance, of referring to Simpson with an unprintable epithet. Shapiro takes a more measured, if Hollywoody, approach. But in both works, details of the lawyers' behind-the-scenes machinations remain strangely compelling. Darden describes a jaunt to the Bahamas, where he unsuccessfully pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals...
...director of communications for Ronald Reagan, he was the same, only more so. "I hadn't encountered anyone like Pat since I had to deal with the White Citizens' Councils in my days as a Mississippi newspaper editor," recalls Reagan's press secretary Larry Speakes in his memoir Speaking Out. "That's not to say that Pat was a racist, just that he was so blindly reactionary." Writes former Vice President Dan Quayle in his book Standing Firm: "There's a firm line between the political cutting edge and what is objectionable. And all too often, Pat crossed...
...Cambodia." In "The Killing Fields," Ngor portrayed Dith Pran, an aide to New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg during the Vietnam War. The actor actually had lived through strikingly similar horrors, as both were imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge regime that killed millions of Cambodians. In a recent memoir, he wrote of watching his wife die in childbirth because had he revealed his training as a doctor, he would have been executed. "Maybe in my last life before this one, I did something wrong to hurt people," Ngor, a Buddhist, once said. "But this life, I paid back...