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...saying his prayers." Enchanted Places is eloquent about the joys of countryside, the felicities of light verse. Milne writes with wit and humane perception about his later relationship with his father. In a space hardly larger than a Pooh book, he has, in fact, unobtrusively condensed a mini-memoir, a portrait of A.A. Milne, a bittersweet study of a literary celebrity in the '20s and something very like an annotated Winnie-the-Pooh. It is pure HUNNY all the way to the bottom...
...shown by Wilson's magazine pieces from these years (collected in 1952 in The Shores of Light), he had a tenacious curiosity about virtually everything. This is what makes The Twenties not only a memoir but the remarkable, jagged portrait of an era. Vaudeville, Charles Lindbergh, the significance of D.H. Lawrence's small head, lists of slang, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, what it felt like to take a fast taxi ride through Manhattan while drunk, other people's family histories, the woman who kept a pet alligator in her bathtub and hypnotized it until...
...folk hero. Truman buttons bring up to $150 at antique stores. The Truman Library in Independence, Mo., is thronged with visitors. Plain Speaking, Merle Miller's account of some salty talk with the 33rd President, has sold 2½ million copies. Margaret Truman Daniel's affectionate memoir will be filmed this fall. James Whitmore's theatrical impersonation, Give 'Em Hell Harry! (TIME, May 12) is playing to S.R.O. audiences all across the country. A singularly ardent fan of the Truman boom is Gerald Ford, who recently assured Mrs. Daniel, "Everyone who knows me knows...
...American in the Gulag is the record of those lost years. Within the genre of Russian prison literature, Dolgun's memoir may rank only as a sort of rough appendix. It is none too carefully composed and, in places, overwritten. But it brings home truths about bureaucratic cruelty and individual endurance all the more effectively for U.S. readers because the author, though he had spent much of his life in Russia, was an American. In prison he passionately held on to his American identity, steadily regarding himself as an unlikely candidate for political martyrdom. After all, a mistake...
...recently created category, contemporary affairs, the judges put together a list of nominees that included Bernstein and Woodward's All the President's Men and Robert Caro's The Power Broker. They finally chose Theodore Rosengarten's All God's Dangers, the unforgettable memoir of an Alabama sharecropper...