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...MEMOIR: A former Clinton aide looks back in anger...
Which points to the real problem with The Clinton Wars: Blumenthal is still fighting them. He's missing the peaceful perspective on the past that a good memoir brings. To us, the events he describes already feel like they happened decades ago, but he writes as if they just happened yesterday--with a brittle, unpleasant, debater's edge, still eager to score points and settle scores. The Clinton Wars is neither history nor journalism nor memoir. It's just more politics. --By Lev Grossman
...Augusten Burroughs was driven to drink by Bewitched. "I worshipped Darren Stevens the First," he writes in his new memoir, Dry (St. Martin's; 293 pages). "When he'd come home from work, Samantha would say, 'Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer...and say, 'Better make it a double.'" Burroughs would uncap one of his father's liquor bottles, upend it with his hand pressed over the top, then recap it and lick his palm...
...DIED. IRENE GUT OPDYKE, 81, Polish-born author whose 1999 memoir, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, told how she saved the lives of 12 Jews during World War II by becoming the mistress of a 70-year old German officer; in California. Opdyke-a devout Catholic-later said, "It was a small price to pay." In 1982 she was recognized by the Holocaust memorial in Israel as "Righteous Among the Nations," the highest honor awarded to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews...
...getting this book out now and scheduling an appearance on 60 Minutes for last Sunday, Glass pre-empts an unflattering film, Shattered Glass, slated for release in the fall. He still might have done better to produce a straightforward memoir. But you can see his problem. If he ever tries to publish nonfiction again, who's going to believe him? --By Richard Lacayo