Word: memoirize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...back home to Austin. She has continued to advise the President on an ad hoc, part-time basis. Now she has begun a gradual re-entry into the whirlwind of full-time presidential politics. Her first conspicuous move is the launch this week of Ten Minutes from Normal, a memoir of a decade spent as George W. Bush's spokeswoman and alter ego. For the White House, the blitz of publicity accompanying the book's publication couldn't come at a better time. Bush aides are counting on Hughes' hagiographic portrait of the President as a near flawless leader...
...Consigliere Returns After leaving Bush's side in '02, Karen Hughes is back with a kiss-and-kiss memoir...
This reading season has been an especially good one for those who want to cause trouble for the President. Beyond the stir caused by Richard Clarke's new memoir, Against All Enemies, a succession of political tomes written by journalists and former insiders has captured a following, particularly among conspiracy-minded Bush foes. More are on the way, promising an inside look at the Administration and at the family of the man who leads...
First off is the feminist travel memoir Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures, edited by Jennifer Leo. Indicative of the tone of the collection, titles for the writers’ narratives range from the angsty feminist “Pissed off in Nepal” to the sexually naive “Prude in Patpong.” One woman told of downing tequila shots until dawn with dreadlocked Aboriginals in the Outback while others recount less unconventional tales of European vacations and camping trips. Writer Lori Mayfield discusses diarrhea on safari, while Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth instructs readers...
Blair’s more substantial allegations of misdeeds at the Times—including a serious charge of widespread dateline fraud—are not likely to raise the right eyebrows, given the source. But Blair’s memoir, though doomed from the start, is a surfeit of fascinating concepts and compelling narrative which displays the talent that once served him so well at The Times. Too bad, then, that the author is unemployed—and unbelievable...