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...this posthumous volume, Cerf tells what goes on behind the bookshelves. Using tapes of his interviews for Columbia's oral history program, along with his diaries and scrapbooks, his widow, Phyllis Cerf Wagner, and former Random House Editor Albert Erskine have compiled a breezy and vastly amusing memoir-identical, one suspects, to the one the gregarious panelist on TV's What's My Line? might have written himself...
...turned out five more votes for Gerald Ford than for Carter last November (2,330 to 2,325), but still folks could hardly have been happier to have him as a guest. Among those on hand was Author-Journalist Willie Morris, who celebrated his Yazoo roots in his autobiographical memoir, North Toward Home. His account of Carter's visit written for TIME...
Adler's liberal education began at 15 when he discovered Plato while reading John Stuart Mill's Autobiography. In his own autobiography appearing next month, Philosopher at Large (Macmillan; $12.95), a chatty, often charmingly self-deprecating memoir of Adlerian triumphs and misadventures, Adler reports that Mill persuaded him to sample some of Plato's Dialogues...
...hate story about a cowboy and a naive, well-brought-up Eastern girl who had a passion for each other," says Brooke Hayward, 39, emphasizing the past tense of the verb. The story she describes will be told in her next book, a sequel to Haywire, the best-selling memoir of her childhood. This time the focus will be on Brooke's stormy, eight-year marriage to Actor-Director Dennis Hopper, which ended in 1969. As for Hopper's creative activities of late, he was sitting for a portrait by a longtime friend, Artist Andy Warhol, and working...
Trilling, one of many unwavering opponents of both Communism and McCarthyism, objects to Hellman's 1976 memoir of the McCarthy era, Scoundrel Time, saying that it was widely but mistakenly received as a reliable record of the times and of the playwright's "virtually unique personal heroism in the midst of almost universal cowardice." A number of other critics, including Hilton Kramer, Irving Howe and Nathan Glazer, have also taxed Hellman with a variety of obfuscations and omissions in the historical record as well as in her own political life story...