Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patchwork Life. Willis Mosby shares Braun's detachment, if not his ethnic background. An American Christian gentleman and noted action-intellectual, he has withdrawn to Mexico to write his memoirs "in the vein of Sir Harold Nicolson or Santayana or Bertrand Russell." He deals at length with his patchwork life; his fundamentalist upbringing, his Rhodes scholar days, his unorthodox interpretation of John Locke, a stint for Hearst in Spain, wartime service with the OSS, and his views on F.D.R., Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Tocqueville. But then Mosby decides that his memoir needs a touch of humor...
...NOTES, by Frederick Exley. In this rambling, scrambling, fictionalized memoir, a young man, unable to participate in the American myth, uses pro-football heroes to act out his own in eluctable dreams...
...monster of Expensive People is a gross 18-year-old named Richard Everett with an IQ of 161 and a neurosis to match every one of his 250 pounds. In a memoir that sometimes reads like Compulsion as told by Holden Caulfield, Richard wanders through his traumatic childhood, concentrating upon his twelfth year when he blossomed out as a child murderer...
...CONDEMNED the "action rhetoric and slogan-oriented realities of American politics," but added sardonically, "of course in the South, we don't even have that." His discussion of the present frustration and alienation of youth, intellectuals and the oppressed and their disillusionment with politics was a poignant memoir of his own frustrations...
...Robert McNamara. The ablest of the nation's Secretaries of Defense refused to play "Lovable Bob" for Congressmen, some of whom did not forgive him. Now he is running something of the same risk with his reading public. The Essence of Security is not the gossipy memoir or the in-fighter's recollection that many readers might prefer. Rather it is a businesslike assembly of "policy statements," a kind of memo to the American people, culled from recent reports and speeches. McNamara is regrettably reticent on Viet Nam. But the book reveals not only a highly humane character...