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...Times, the Washington Post and other high-profile venues. (The Times, generally favorable, said the book’s “accounts crackle with immediacy,” while the Post spent most of its double-bill review riffing on a BBC editor’s recently-published memoir.) Embedded has not been a blockbusting bestseller, but after bringing Carlson and co-author Bill Katovsky a Goldsmith Book Prize from the Kennedy School of Government’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy last month, the book is poised to bring...
Ambition and moral zeal were his propellants, and Califano never slowed down. His memoir, Inside: A Public and Private Life (Public Affairs; 539 pages), is as jam-packed and energetic as his life...
...prolific author André Brink follows the journey - physical and emotional - of a young German woman who travels to southwest Africa, where she confronts chauvinistic settlers, a harsh desert landscape and her own demons. Antjie Krog began her career as a poet but is best known for her semifictionalized memoir Country of My Skull (Vintage), which chronicles South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was recently made into a movie starring Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson. In A Change of Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom...
...Consigliere Returns After leaving Bush's side in '02, Karen Hughes is back with a kiss-and-kiss memoir...
This reading season has been an especially good one for those who want to cause trouble for the President. Beyond the stir caused by Richard Clarke's new memoir, Against All Enemies, a succession of political tomes written by journalists and former insiders has captured a following, particularly among conspiracy-minded Bush foes. More are on the way, promising an inside look at the Administration and at the family of the man who leads...