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...Memoir or anti-memoir - by any name, the book is bound to be a bestsell er. All through his adult life Author Andre Malraux has been I'homme en gage, a committed man whose activities capture the popular imagination. As a young student of Oriental archaeology, he was once jailed for trying to cart away from the Cambodian jungle some ancient Khmer statues that he admired...
...MOVE A NATION, by Roger Hilsman. Candid memoir, controversial history and complex political theory are unevenly combined in this Kennedy policy reprise, by a provocative and polemical member of the State Department under J.F.K...
...other volumes. His talents were diverse, and almost inexhaustible. In 1927 he completed a labor of love, his American Songbag, a treasury of the nation's folk songs. His first novel, Remembrance Rock, was finished in 1948. At 74, he published Always the Young Strangers, a memoir of his boyhood. Always, however, his first love was verse and song. As a preface to 1928's Good Morning, America, Sandburg listed 38 tentative definitions of poetry. Among them: "Poetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog...
...anti-Administration stand on Viet Nam. This book is Hilsman's contribution to the growing library of the Kennedy era. Cast in the form of studies in statecraft, it attempts -sometimes too ambitiously-to be at once an exploration of political process, a history and a memoir...
...author's theory is lost in jargon or banality: "In a political process, finally, the relative power of the different groups involved is as relevant to the final decision as the appeal of the goals they seek or the cogency and wisdom of their arguments." In history and memoir, which fortunately occupy the bulk of the book, Hilsman is pungent and direct in his appraisal of men and events. Defense Secretary McNamara is described as "almost totally lacking in self-doubt," former CIA Director John McCone as a man with "a rough and ready sense of decency" that redeems...