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...long arm of litigiousness has reached out and touched Barbara Bush. Former CIA operative and current agency scold Philip Agee is claiming Babs' 1994 autobiography, A Memoir, falsely blames him for the murder of Richard Welch, the CIA's chief operative in Athens. He's suing for $4 million. Ex-First Dog Millie, who wrote a book with Bush, is not named in the suit...
Powell: It was not intended to be a political memoir sculpted like a diplomatic communique. I know that I will have to, if I enter public life, come down on those issues. But I haven't declared myself a candidate. I will have to learn, but it doesn't mean I have to rush through it right now and leap down an elevator shaft. What you're asking me to do is put myself up on Capitol Hill and say exactly whether I'm for the Clinton version of welfare reform or the Bob Dole version of welfare reform...
...does not disappoint. His memoir, In Confidence, is a no-pulled-punches page turner of a diplomatic history, spiced with anecdotes and insights. He recounts how Stalin once told his Ambassador to the U.S., Andrei Gromyko, to learn English by listening to sermons in American churches. How Dobrynin, during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, communicated with Moscow via Western Union, which sent a bicycle messenger to pick up coded cables. How Moscow secretly offered financial aid to Vice President Hubert Humphrey for his 1968 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon (Humphrey declined the offer). How Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev...
With her fellowship this year from the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, she will be able to write a memoir about her experiences...
...Mickey's old neighborhood. Getting the spirit of the aged on paper has become something of a sub-specialty for Roth--notably in Patrimony, his tender and unsparing account of his father's life and death. The encounter between Sabbath and the centenarian is reminiscent of the earlier memoir...