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Seen through the eyes of a liberal white American, Made in Managua is a memoir of Maushard's nonchalant exploration of Nicaragua at the end of its civil war. The book does not attempt to relate the experiences of the war-torn citizens of Managua, but Maushard does succeed within his limited scope--he gives a superb fresh-out-of-college journalist's depiction of his jaunt through North America's most bitter war zone...
Waiting for Studs, one does not have to wait too long. He has published eight books, including Hard Times (the Depression) and "The Good War" (World War II). There was also Talking to Myself, a memoir of a life that included careers in acting, sports announcing and journalism. Terkel's earlier ambition was "to have a nice civil service job." It is hard to imagine. His disdain for bureaucracy and sympathy for the underdog would have produced an unlikely paper pusher. The crusty populism asserted itself two years ago when his publisher, Andre Schiffrin, was forced out as head...
Richard D. Kahlenberg '85, the author of Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School, criticized the Law School for steering students toward corporate law instead of public service in a speech at Pound Hall last night...
UNTO THE SONS by Gay Talese (Knopf; $25). It may be overwritten, but this lengthy memoir exhaustively, often vividly tells of the great wave of Italian immigration to the U.S., through the experiences of the author's ancestors. Imagine Roots dipped in marinara sauce...
...were prolific and successful screenwriters in the 1940s and '50s, getting credit for at least one masterpiece, The Desk Set. Nora says her mother did the actual typing, while "my father did the pacing up and down" -- roughly the same job division as in childbirth. Henry wrote a charming memoir of the couple's life together, We Thought We Could Do Anything, leaving out most of the bleak parts -- the alcoholism, the bitter fights that made their daughters beg the two to get a divorce, both parents' descent into mental illness. It was enough to make Nora, the eldest...