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...compiled without the benefit of formal research-LIFE explained in a publisher's note that the book came "from various sources at various times and in various circumstances." It also insisted that the material be referred to as "reminiscences," implying the informality of its preparation, rather than a "memoir...
...probably had no involvement in some of the more spectacular phonies foisted on the West. The so-called "memoir" by the late Maxim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Commissar, was actually produced by a Soviet defector in Paris, while The Penkovsky Papers, purportedly the diaries of a spy in the upper echelon of the Soviet intelligence system who was caught and shot, were allegedly partly concocted...
...Seven Storey Mountain, the best-selling 1948 autobiography that made a young Trappist monk named Thomas Merton a worldwide sensation, dealt with only part of a life that ended suddenly when Merton, studying Buddhism in Asia, was accidentally electrocuted in Bangkok in 1968. Edward Rice's ingenuous, openhearted memoir rounds out the 33 Mountain years and gives substantial shape to Merton's later years. As biography, the book is frankly worshipful...
That argument by itself is a miserable failure. Student organizations, Harvard personnel offices, and underground journals are not engaged firsthand in the manufacture of public policy. The DAS, on the other hand, conducts cabinet-level activity in five underdeveloped countries. Unless one adheres to the memoir theory of history, which deems it permissible for top-level government decisions to be made in secret only to have them surface years afterward in the form of personal remembrances, then it is difficult to regard the DAS' reticence with anything but skepticism or distrust...
...about a lonely boy growing up in England just after World War I, Anthony West should not be plagued by any novel reader's knowledge that the author is the natural son of Rebecca West and H. G. Wells. Yet the book, which seems to be a fictional memoir, is profoundly preoccupied with its hero's growing awareness that the woman posing as his aunt is really his mother, and that he himself knows nothing about his father. Born in 1914, West is a semi-public figure in the U.S. For almost 20 years he has been...