Word: memoirize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spiritual home and a useful entree into Chicago's black political elite. Obama soon came to view Wright as something of a father figure. Wright ended up consecrating Obama's wedding to Michelle Robinson, baptizing the couple's children, and even provided the title to his best-selling memoir, The Audacity of Hope...
...first time in 21 years to a French film: Laurent Cantet's Entre les Murs (The Class), which traces a year in a Paris junior-high class. This judicious, quietly touching film was made with nonprofessional actors, including the teacher, François Bégaudeau, on whose memoir-novel the film is based. When the unanimous award was announced, Cantet, Bégaudeau and the rainbow coalition of kids all swarmed onstage for an ecstatic reunion...
Given the barrage of publicity and outrage that it has generated in the last day, you know what you're in for before you even crack the spine of What Happened, Scott McClellan's memoir of his nearly three years as George W. Bush's press secretary. It's not necessarily surprising that McClellan critiques his former co-workers. But the candor, anger and overall disappointment with which McClellan discusses President Bush and his policies is particularly surprising from someone previously presumed to be the most faithful of aides. On the fifth page of the preface McClellan bluntly writes, "History...
...faith took on an extra dimension when he met and married Cherie Booth-like him, a young lawyer-after graduating. Blair's wife is a devout Catholic; not a posh Catholic, but a Liverpool-Irish, working-class, convent-educated girl with cousins who became priests. In her recent memoir, Cherie makes plain the centrality of religion to their relationship. Of the young Blair, she says, "Religion was more important to him than anyone I had ever met outside the priesthood." She and Blair would spend hours "talking about God and what we were here for. I don't think...
...Havel's memoir and the documentary on his tenure offer a similarly nuanced view of fledgling democracies, capturing the boyish excitement of a new world together with its absurdities...