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...earlier biography, Jack Newfield's Robert Kennedy: A Memoir, is without doubt the best of the Kennedy books; in comparison to it, On His Own seems especially vacuous. Newfield does not try to defend Kennedy's mistakes, but rather makes them understandable-and forgivable-within the context of his character. Writing largely from his personal contact with Kennedy, Newfield succeeds in developing a comprehensive view of him and his political development. His Robert Kennedy is outstanding. There is no reason to read On His Own: RFK 1964-68 in addition...
...this were not enough of a literary contrivance, Author Mitchell also splits his book into two parts. In the first part, Mitchell, appearing as a character, offers a fluent memoir about his friendship with Charles. It begins in an English boarding school in the mid-'40s and ends with Charles' apparent suicide in the mid-'60s. This is the Age of Anxiety's baroque period, and Charles and Julian experience many of its significant furbelows: postwar empiricism at Oxford and Cambridge, uneventful military service, the California beat scene and damp marches through England for nuclear disarmament...
...York Timesman Cabell Phillips, author of The Truman Presidency and a Washington reporter for 25 years, says that the "framework" of what he calls his "journalistic reprise" is "necessarily political." But the charm of the only-yesterday memoir is its look of pure miscellany. For all his muttering about framework, Phillips' shambles, happily, is no exception...
Unlike most high officials who leave the Government for well-paid positions in industry, academe or the professions, Rusk has even had trouble finding suitable employment. A Rockefeller Foundation fellowship has paid the bills since last January. He declines to indulge in the lucrative self-defense of memoir writing. And while his identification with L.B.J.'s hawkish Viet Nam policy has made him anathema to many northern universities, his liberalism is an obstacle to his going home to Georgia...
Biggest Contract. In his inimitable language, Dylan also told how he almost wrote a philosophical memoir of sorts called Tarantula: "It begins with when I suddenly began to sell quite a few records . . . and I was doing interviews before and after concerts, and reporters would say things like 'What else do you write?' And I would say, 'Well, I don't write much of anything else.' And they would say, 'Oh, come on. You must write other things. Tell us something else. Do you write books?' And I'd say, 'Sure...