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Among the options Thatcher is considering are accepting invitations to lecture in the U.S., Europe and Japan; writing her memoirs; and founding her own political think tank. A Thatcher foundation would not lack funds, since her memoirs could fetch as much as $8 million, plus an additional $2 million for serialization rights. "I am sure it would command one of the highest prices ever paid for a political memoir," says Lynn Nesbit, a literary agent based in Manhattan who counts Jimmy Carter among her clients. Other publishing insiders even suggest that Thatcher's autobiography would fare better...
VOICES IN THE MIRROR by Gordon Parks (Doubleday; $22.95). In this latest memoir, filmmaker-photographer Parks produces a fast narrative of a career that took him from playing the piano in Kansas brothels to the staff of LIFE, where, as the magazine's first black staff photographer, he distinguished himself with coverage of crime, poverty and the upheavals of the counterculture...
...existence of these secret organizations was first disclosed in 1976 by a U.S. Senate committee investigating CIA operations. Former CIA Director William Colby told the story in greater detail in his 1978 memoir, Honorable Men. His first assignment in the agency, Colby wrote, had been to organize stay-behind networks in Scandinavia...
EXCERPT: In a new memoir, Ronald Reagan describes his dream of a nuclear-free world...
...this warm and happy memoir there is a shadow, not over Ike's time or his achievements but over the U.S. of today. Jackson talks about it from his corner of Kansas above the Smoky Hill River, the same one that nurtured Ike. Was the unspoiled land and Abilene and the Eisenhower family -- and so many others like them in that era -- a one-time event in our history, now swept away by excessive wealth, greed, waste, softness and self-pity? Jackson confesses he has no certain answer. But he is worried by what he sees throughout the nation. When...