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...luck and a good B.A. degree. For example, at the Washington Post in the early 1980s, so thick were the references to bright college days in Cambridge, Mass., that I sometimes felt I was working at the Harvard Crimson alumni association. Peggy Noonan in her best-selling White House memoir, What I Saw at the Revolution, loudly complains that her colleagues in the Reagan Administration "were always asking me what college I went to." Noonan, sensitive to the status slights that accompany her Fairleigh Dickinson degree, theorizes that in a fluid environment like the White House, people...
...Traitor's Heart, Rian Malan, a young white South African journalist, has one major subject: Rian Malan. His intense and angry memoir offers a series of South African impressions: the author as exiled hippie in America; the author as pariah in his native land; blacks under fire, with a prominent & figure of the author...
...hate him, Richard Nixon is hard to ignore. Since his resignation in 1974, Nixon has re-emerged as an outspoken thinker on American politics and a respected analyst of foreign policy. His forthcoming book, In the Arena, excerpted this week in TIME, is his most emotionally fired memoir to date and his most exculpatory. Beginning with his flight from the White House, he recounts his moments of despair and his struggle to redeem himself...
...memoir, the former President recounts his post-resignation depression and his efforts to restore his physical, mental and spiritual health. -- Interview: Nixon tells why he wrote the book, speculates about his place in history and sizes up today's leaders...
...problem with any would-be intimate White House portrait isn't the presence of cameras. It's the forbidding landscape itself. This has been noted by Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who also gave Bush many of his best lines (notably "a kinder, gentler nation"). In her recently published memoir What I Saw at the Revolution, Noonan says the White House often seems, even to insiders, to be bright and grand, all majestic spit and polish. But behind the scenes, it is "intrigue and betrayal" and hardball politics...