Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite her opposition to the war in Vietnam, Kearns became a Johnson confidante. After he left office, she helped him prepare "Vantage Point," his political memoir that was published...
...Tricia are reportedly urging their parents to return East, while Old Friend Bebe Rebozo has apparently suggested that the Nixons live near him on their Key Biscayne, Fla., property. The ex-President seems torn, because he also wants to be near research facilities for his long period of memoir writing, and Southern California is the probable location for a proposed Nixon library...
...Martwick's kennel over $10,000 last year, which more than pays his keep. Moreover, he has tripled 9-Lives' sales. Obviously having long since lost control of his biographer, Morris serenely concentrated on grooming his whiskers while Daniels coyly revealed that his choice for his own memoir had been...
Peter Prescott came to Harvard last week to shill his most recent book, A Darkening Green, which purports to be a memoir of the 1950s and the author's freshman year at Harvard. He was very nervous and understandably so, since anyone who writes a book like that has quite a bit to answer...
Generally it is difficult to assess the personal validity of this kind of memoir. After all, it is so very private as not really to be worth public attention, so it is sufficiently private to be unimpeachable in its own way. But as social commentary, as a unique document of its times, A Darkening Green faces some severe problems. First off, it is not unique. Novelists have dealt with the problems of students since Christ was a corporal (or at least since Raskolnikov murdered his landlady), and A Darkening Green is nothing except the notebooks and commentary of someone...