Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the nation's two major dailies took the dispute to their editorial pages. After a Times editorial accused the Post of "a second-rate burglary of H.R. Haldeman's memoir of a third-rate burglary," the Post in a lead editorial slashed back. Its coup was "first-rate enterprise," wrote the Post, adding rather guardedly that there was no evidence that the book had been obtained by burglary. The editorial pointed out reasonably enough that when a publisher goes into the business of both "news books" and newspapers, "it is almost certain to bump into some...
Well, you gotta realize he's saving that part for another book, a full memoir of the splendor of the Nixon years, in which Watergate'll be a minor episode. Haldeman says duty called him to straighten out Watergate after the Nixon/Frost interviews, which incidentally cast him and Ehrlichman as the villains Nixon was just trying to protect out of a sense of humanity. Ol' Bob's revisionist history runs like this: "I believed in tough campaigning too, but even from my hardline standpoint, Nixon went too far at times. But political strategy wasn't my province, only the mechanics...
...parent Times Co.: "Officially, we're pissed." The ill feelings had not subsided much by week's end. On Sunday the Times carried an editorial reflecting on Watergate, which began with an acid reference to the Post's "second-rate burglary of H.R. Haldeman's memoir of a third-rate burglary on the eve of its publication by Times Books...
Understandably, there was a time when Farrell was a lodestar of the non-Communist left. His Studs Lonigan trilogy is a genre classic, a cluttered memoir of graceless Irish poor whose lyricism and potential are crushed in the struggle to survive. H.L. Mencken called their creator "the best living novelist," and Critic Alfred Kazin noted respectfully that "Farrell was the archetypal novelist of the crisis and its inflictions ... all the rawness and distemper of the thirties seem to live in [his] novels...
Chapin, now dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, tells of all this in Musical Chairs. The author's candor and good humor have produced a compelling memoir. It should be required reading for anyone entering the contemporary music business-and for any young performer pondering an artistic career...