Word: memoirize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Gawker, which focuses on media gossip and pop culture, posted the leak on May 22, reporting that Benjamin A. Mezrich ’91, who also wrote “Bringing Down the House,” has signed a deal for over $1 million to write a memoir about the creators of Facebook...
...book will be on great research universities and their mission. It’s not an autobiography or a memoir, but it obviously will draw on my experience as president of Harvard in developing its arguments about great contributions that universities can make to the broader society. I think we’re some time away [from publishing]. I certainly expect that the publisher will have the manuscript sometime within the next year and I expect it will be published soon after that...
...There were plenty of surprise to go around this week, much of it coming from the publication of a book. It was hard to keep up with all the different ways people claimed to be taken aback by the contents of former Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan's memoir, What Happened. Some were surprised that the White House had lied about the war.(On what planet had they been living?) Others, like Bob Dole, could not imagine that a Bush staffer had written such a revelatory book. (Did they think the vaunted Bush message discipline and loyalty would last...
...McClellan's book is another beta boost for the misery index. His memoir will feed the deep anxiety that the country has veered severely off the right track, that Washington is a cesspool of deception and hogwash, and that the federal government can't be trusted to do much of anything right. At a minimum, McClellan has not made it any easier for Republicans to maintain the balance of power in Washington. But the flap over his book is yet another reminder of how difficult the country will be to govern for whichever party wins in November...
...When Bush wrote that line about surprises (in his first memoir), he was talking about the GOP vice presidential nomination...