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...NOTES, by Frederick Exley. In this rambling, scrambling, fictionalized memoir, a young man, unable to participate in the American myth, uses pro-football heroes to act out his own in eluctable dreams...
...monster of Expensive People is a gross 18-year-old named Richard Everett with an IQ of 161 and a neurosis to match every one of his 250 pounds. In a memoir that sometimes reads like Compulsion as told by Holden Caulfield, Richard wanders through his traumatic childhood, concentrating upon his twelfth year when he blossomed out as a child murderer...
...CONDEMNED the "action rhetoric and slogan-oriented realities of American politics," but added sardonically, "of course in the South, we don't even have that." His discussion of the present frustration and alienation of youth, intellectuals and the oppressed and their disillusionment with politics was a poignant memoir of his own frustrations...
...Robert McNamara. The ablest of the nation's Secretaries of Defense refused to play "Lovable Bob" for Congressmen, some of whom did not forgive him. Now he is running something of the same risk with his reading public. The Essence of Security is not the gossipy memoir or the in-fighter's recollection that many readers might prefer. Rather it is a businesslike assembly of "policy statements," a kind of memo to the American people, culled from recent reports and speeches. McNamara is regrettably reticent on Viet Nam. But the book reveals not only a highly humane character...
...even a vastly romantic 19-year-old girl, could have uttered the bombastic speeches credited to her by the memoir. But the book was written in 1865, only two years after Belle was released from prison, by a ghost named George A. H. Sala. His style is implacably flossy; a hole in a prison wall, through which Belle passed notes, is referred to as a "mural disturbance...