Word: memoirize
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Some grown men have trouble embracing their fathers in public. Russert hugs his for 21 chapters in Big Russ & Me (Miramax Books; 336 pages), a memoir that is part tribute to his dad and part guidebook for the author's college-age son Luke. The elder Tim Russert nearly died in World War II, but his namesake celebrates--more than the moments of high drama--the grace with which his father fulfilled his daily obligations. His principles are as simple as the book's chapter titles: "Work," "Faith" and "Discipline." Big Russ worked for the sanitation department in the morning...
...attempt to suppress the nationalist rebellion in the late 1950s. The French political class has been in denial for decades; they'd prefer to pretend it didn't happen. Not so the soldiers. The general in charge of counterinsurgency in Algiers, Paul Aussaresses, recently stirred the pot in a memoir in which he explained that torture was essential to achieving France's goals in Algeria. You sent me to suppress the rebellion, he argued. This was the only way to get it done...
...item about British soccer player David Beckham, referred to his "famous left foot" [April 19]. Although Beckham's left is certainly well known (he fractured it during a 2002 Manchester United match), it is his right foot that makes him a great player. We also said he penned his memoir, My Side, at age 26. He was 27 when the book was written...
...truth as they see it, and even then that’s only for non-fiction writing. I wrote Blue Blood for myself as a way to remember what we do as cops in a bad neighborhood in a big city—it’s a personal memoir, a history...
...Mary had just wrapped up his sophomore year, making him only slightly older than Chelsea Clinton, but he was researching and writing her mother’s speeches. Meanwhile, Muscatine, who went on to have a substantial role in the writing of Clinton’s bestselling memoir Living History, let him crash in a house she and her husband planned to eventually tear down. “There were delays, so I basically lived in a huge mansion by myself in Bethesda for eight months,” says O’Mary...