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...head writer of the Onion's A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin is charged with both skewering pop culture and sanctifying it - and often does both in the same sentence. Rabin's book, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, released July 7, is a look back at his troubled childhood, which included bouts of depression and time spent in group homes after being abandoned by his parents. TIME talked to Rabin about his love of the rap game, how he got started at the A.V. Club and how pop culture emerged as his savior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Onion's Nathan Rabin | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...write a memoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Onion's Nathan Rabin | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...World Bank's president, exhibiting his characteristic devotion and confidence but delivering mixed results. He became heavily involved with efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation, and he spoke and traveled widely in his later life denouncing America's role and his own role in Vietnam. He even wrote a memoir indicting American policy in Vietnam and was featured in the acclaimed documentary...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kennedy School Colleagues Reflect on McNamara's Career | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

...McNamara waited 30 years before conceding in his 1995 memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, that he had waged the war in error. "My voice would have had no impact at all at that point," he told TIME when the book came out, explaining why he hadn't revealed his doubts when he stepped down as Secretary of Defense in early 1968. "My voice would have had no impact whatsoever." (See pictures of the China-Vietnam border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert McNamara Dies: No Escape from Vietnam | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...publication of the 1995 memoir revived the debate over his role in the war. McNamara admitted in his book that the U.S. government had never answered key questions that drove its war policy, such as whether the fall of Vietnam would lead to a communist Southeast Asia and if such an occurrence would really have posed a grave threat to the West. "It seems beyond understanding, incredible, that we did not force ourselves to confront such issues head-on," he wrote. He said he wanted to help prevent the country from making similar mistakes in the future and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert McNamara Dies: No Escape from Vietnam | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

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