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...member of the Communist Party, the screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. objected to the question and finally said, "I could answer it, but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning." It became a memorable line, and it makes an appropriate title for Lardner's breezy, engaging memoir, I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books; 198 pages; $22.95). Reams have been written about the Hollywood blacklist and the witch hunts of the late '40s and early '50s. Lardner was a notable victim of all this, not only serving a prison term for contempt of Congress but also...
...airing of same-day audio - you had to wonder whether "The West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin didn't pick the wrong branch of government to write about. We already see plenty of the world of White House staffers, after all, every time an insider quits and writes an overremunerated memoir. But the Court, now there's an intriguing world. The sex-scandal-haunted black conservative! The mysterious, John Cage-like nebbish who infuriates his Republican sponsors by going liberal on them! The plucky woman jurist coming back from cancer! Make 'em all 40 years younger and tighten up those robes...
Clinton will certainly not be leaving the job of spinning history to others. He will tell his side of the story in a memoir. (It could fetch $8 million to $10 million, publishing experts say, if he gets into the personal side of the Monica crisis and its effect on Hillary and Chelsea.) He will also have legal arenas to address--or redress--his legacy: disbarment proceedings in the Arkansas courts stemming from his alleged perjury in the Paula Jones deposition, and a possible federal indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the Lewinsky investigation. Clinton will...
...across the puzzle the other day in Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s new memoir, "A Life in the Twentieth Century." Schlesinger says that the game of The Lady or the Tiger became widely popular when Stockton proposed it more than a century ago. The poet Robert Browning announced that he "had no hesitation in supposing that such a princess under such circumstances would direct her lover to the tiger's door...
...retired from teaching, Schlesinger lives with his wife Alexandra in a Manhattan apartment overlooking the East River. He is just sitting down at his computer to write the second volume of his memoirs, due out in two years. "I try to write about myself as if I were writing about someone else," he says. "But all history is subjective." His memoir is a historian's dance to the music of time...