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...decided that "more sophisticated weaponry" is now required, and he is resigning as CORE's leader next month to direct a Government-aided literacy and job-training program. Freedom-When? is part tribute to the organization he grew up with, part testament of his beliefs, part personal memoir of 46 years, and part civil rights manual...
...lean, well-written memoir-some of which echoes material in The Learning Tree-Parks describes how often he came within an eyelash of choosing violence and raw, corrosive hatred as his weapons in the struggle for dignity. After a fight with three white toughs in St. Paul, Minn.-a battle that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white...
Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia, Richard Pipes. Atheneum...
Undarned Suits. His memoir suggests that he came by his views the hard way-by a tough and unsentimental study of himself. Here is his account of himself at 20: "I moved from one fitful job to another, improvisations without issue; dreamed my sumptuous dreams of canopied barges on the Nile and throbbing Bentleys in Biarritz; woke with strangers in dank attics; nursed the one undarned, too tightly fitting suit-and plotted my escape. Try as I may, I cannot bring into focus the young man of 20. If we were to meet today, we would have little...
...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Some of Kennedy's advisers stood nearer the President, but none was better equipped than Harvard Historian Schlesinger to pay public respect to his memory. Perceptive as history and vivid as memoir, this-despite its touches of partisanship-is the most balanced assessment yet of the Kennedy years...