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...classic flaw that plagues the memoir genre is that of self-indulgence. The writer certainly has the authority to relate his or her particular tale to the audience, but why should they care to read it? Who is this person writing and why is this life worth understanding...
...memoir of growing up in Chicago, Bellow described listening to one of Roosevelt's fireside chats on a summer evening at the height of the Depression: "Just as memorable to me," he wrote, "was to learn how long clover flowers could hold their color in the dusk." Politics was for politicians. Bellow's job was to observe the world around him and make us see its beauty...
...while, the skeptics were right. The network experienced intense birthing pains. Raising the seed money was no picnic, as founder Sheldon Drobny spells out in the memoir Road To Air America: Breaking The Right Wing Stranglehold On Our Nation's Airwaves. Drobny raised the loot, beat the drum, rounded up political support, then saw the project mismanaged and nearly torpedoed. (He was not at New York headquarters for the startup, and is not mentioned in the documentary...
...people who long ago dismissed Fonda as a professional changeling and controversialist. For them, My Life So Far (Random House; 624 pages) offers juicy celebrity gossip and passages about her adventurous sex life (plus a convenient index). But Fonda doesn't acknowledge skeptics, and she didn't write her memoir--which reveals, among other things, that she suffered from bulimia for 30 years, how she never felt the closeness she yearned for with her father Henry and that she only recently found personal happiness, in part through a conversion to Christianity--simply to tell all. "I'm on a mission...
Having appointed all but three of the 117 Cardinals who will choose his successor, John Paul, by sheer longevity, has assured that the church will deviate little immediately from his doctrinal course. He would have understood this as part of God's design. In his memoir Gift and Mystery, he makes a telling observation regarding the period in the 1940s when he attended a secret and illegal school for priests. "I could have been arrested any day and taken away to a concentration camp," he wrote later. "Sometimes I would ask myself: so many young people...