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...insider (he counted as friends everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Henry Kissinger) who began as an outsider. Henry arrived in the U.S. in 1938 with his parents, Jewish refugees from Hitler's Anschluss of their native Austria. He would write about it much later in his memoir, One Man's America. "I love America," he wrote, "because it took me in from the madness of wartime Europe and allowed me to make it my country." Love was the key word. All his life, he approached America with a kind of infatuation, hungry to know and to understand everything about...
...last years, Henry suffered from macular degeneration, a disease of the retina that slowly deprived him of much of his sight but none of his drive. From that misfortune he produced Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight, an elegant and courageous memoir. And then, at the age of 81, he published his first work of fiction, A Saint, More or Less: A Novel. After the death of his first wife, Beverly, Grunwald remarried. His wife Louise was by his side last week, and his three children, Mandy, Lisa and Peter. Last year, after his cardiac episode, Lisa told him that...
Monday, Feb. 28. Sue Erikson Bloland discusses In The Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...know I would, and I live here in China. Thankfully for the reader, Clissold and Pat are anything but normal. They are present at the creation of China's economic miracle, and they intend to ride it to riches, baijiu and rabbit ears notwithstanding. Clissold's memoir of his years with Perkowski-- 1995 to 2002--is an instant classic. The best "business" book previously written about China is probably Jim Mann's Beijing Jeep, an account of the ill-fated auto joint venture in China's early days of experimenting with capitalism. Mr. China (Harper Business; 252 pages) joins...
Perot then called the Virginia home of Powell, who was resting from the rigors of signing 4,000 copies a day of his memoir and deciding whether to run for President. Powell listened and asked questions as Perot explained his new party and his desire that it nominate some candidate other than himself for President--say, Powell or retiring Senator Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat. The new party "will build a war chest of $60 million at least," Perot subsequently explained to TIME, so its candidate "won't have to go out with a tambourine and beg the special...