Word: memoirize
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...carries Watergate checkbook journalism to its greatest extreme to date. After the tempest triggered by its deal with Convicted Felon Haldeman, CBS swore off buying news and thus declined to bid for Nixon. Frost argues that since Nixon is out of office, the interviews are not news but a memoir and therefore immune to the checkbook charge. "There is no reason," Frost told TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin in London last week, "why Nixon shouldn't make money from this memoir as other former Presidents have done...
...name to the list of Richard Nixon's secret campaign contributors -at least according to William A. Arnold, Nixon's first press secretary in Congress. In his memoir of the former President's early political career, Back When It All Began, Arnold tells of a Democratic Congressman who handed over a $1,000 personal check to Nixon's 1950 Senate campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas. The donor: John F. Kennedy. "He explained that the check should be used in Nixon's campaign for Senator," writes Arnold, "and that its intention was partly due to admiration...
...literally the master builder of the Third Reich-designing the monumental edifices that fulfilled his Führer's passion for grandeur-as well as the man who kept the Nazi war machine supplied. Now Albert Speer is content with more modest projects: writing his memoirs. When it was published six years ago, his Inside the Third Reich-a devastatingly intimate look at life within Hitler's inner circle-became an instant bestseller in West Germany and reached a wide audience abroad. The onetime Nazi architect in chief and Minister of Armaments and War Production has now completed...
Speer's new book may well stir as much interest as his first. Many historians agreed with the judgment of Britain's H.R. Trevor-Roper that he was the brightest of the top Nazis. The focus of the new work is narrower than that of his memoir of the Nazi years, since it peers introspectively at the author's difficult adjustment to life in prison...
Other modes, indeed: card sharping? bunco artistry? Hargrave's mischievous novel Clara Reeve purports to be the memoir of a young Englishwoman from 1850, when she was six, through the years of a preposterous marriage in her early 20s. Many novels attempt to be what they are not-the log of a whaling voyage, the writhings of a student who murders an old pawnbroker-and thus all are stratagems of a kind. But Hargrave's, Moore's and Crichton's constructs are far more elaborate, since they soberly imitate the genteel literary conventions and taboos...