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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...before she dissolved back into the crowd. For the former Arkansas governor, the gesture symbolized his remarkable campaign: a validation of the idea that anyone can be President, even a Baptist pastor with crooked teeth, no personal fortune but an amazing ability to communicate. His sixth book is part memoir and part political treatise, full of policy proposals, like a national sales tax, and harsh words for foes, including "left of center" Mitt Romney and the libertarian "faux-cons" of the Republican Party. But its emotional heart is a portrait of what might be called Huckabee's America, a place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do the Right Thing | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Carrie Fisher is an anomaly in Hollywood: a demonstrably clever celebrity. (I say demonstrably because plenty of celebrities are extremely clever; they just tend to keep it to themselves.) Fisher is the author of four novels, several screenplays and two autobiographical one-woman shows. Now she's written a memoir, or rather adapted it from her show of the same name, Wishful Drinking (Simon & Schuster; 163 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess Diaries | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...You’ve written multiple books. Marvin Kalb called your book “Of Spies and Spokesmen” a “journalistic memoir.” What was the process of writing a memoir like compared to reporting...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Nicholas Daniloff | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...done quite a bit of memoir writing. How difficult is it to turn your focus inward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calvin Trillin | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...harder for me. I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. One of them was about a classmate of mine who was the person we thought would be President of the United States. He committed suicide. That led to a book about my father, since my father crept into the first book. Sometimes the memoir is painful to write, but then, I haven't written the sort of memoir that seems to be the style in the U.S. now, which I often characterize as an "atrocity arms-race." With the one about my father, I kept wondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calvin Trillin | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

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