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Scarcely more than a year after its denouement, the Lewinsky scandal has already entered its revisionist phase. The inevitable histories are showing up in bookstores, and the most commercially successful of them--from Monica Lewinsky's bathetic memoir Monica's Story to the artful partisanship of Jeffrey Toobin's A Vast Conspiracy--are markedly one-sided in recounting the struggle between Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr. The accepted narrative, in brief: an insensitive but all too human Chief Executive is beset by a sex-obsessed religious zealot masquerading as an upholder of the rule of law. To judge by sales...
Friedan never exhibited the hostility toward men that some other feminist leaders wore as a badge of honor, and she insisted that it was not necessary to give up femininity to achieve equality. In her memoir, Friedan lashes out at some of those movement colleagues. She accuses Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem of hypocrisy for telling women they should not shave their legs or armpits or wear makeup. "It was so annoying to me that Gloria would preach this kind of doctrine," she writes, "and at the same time be dating some very glamorous men and having her hair streaked...
With the publication of her sixth book, Life So Far: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster; 399 pages), Friedan gives us the fullest, most candid account of her experience in the vortex of that revolution, and the toll it took on her personal life. She writes with poignant honesty of her loneliness growing up Jewish in Peoria, Ill. ("Mostly, my mother made me feel bad about myself"); her fascination with communism after graduating from Smith College; and the strain of her 22-year marriage to Carl Friedan. After the success of The Feminine Mystique, her husband, who had originally encouraged her research...
...Pulitzer-winning papers in 2000 20. Ridge, who wants Republicans to modify or drop their abortion plank 21. Bush said he's "a better person" for meeting them 22. Author Steve, who has named JonBenet's mom as a suspect 24. Big bash 25. 1999 Frank McCourt memoir 26. Bush, to Trudeau 27. Takeoff artist 29. Williams, who withdrew from the Family Circle Cup in support of the South Carolina boycott 32. Bayh, who's on everyone's short list for the Veep slot 33. Measure of profitability: Abbr. 34. Appear 36. Place for trash 37. 2000 Masters winner...
...comforting, it's even sometimes hilarious, to have these lives of old Hollywood stars (especially Taylor's) to carry with us into the new millennium. Esther Williams recently published an unexpectedly spirited memoir in which she revealed, among other things, that she did not marry the ripple-jawed Jeff Chandler in the '50s because he liked to dress up in women's clothes ("You're too big to wear polka dots," she told...