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...START IN FREEDOM, by Sir Hugh Foot. Scion of a British family that rivals the notorious Mitfords in brilliance and eccentricity, Sir Hugh has spent his adult years and his considerable talents on helping British colonies to independence, and his book is interesting both as memoir and practical political science...
Journalist Gunther, who wrote two best-forgotten novels when he was Mason Jarrett's age, has yearned for years to bring off a fictional tour de force. This is not it, though it is sometimes absorbing when it approaches the factual memoir of vintage Vienna that he might have written instead-and still should. As Gunther himself put it some years ago, "How can you write about boy meets girl when you had Hitler and Mussolini next door...
...SCOTCH, by John Galbraith. In this memoir of his childhood in a frugal Scotch community in Ontario, the author of The Affluent Society documents the tightwad society. It is a diverting study of the Scotch and an intriguing, ironic insight into the formative influences that made Economist Galbraith an evangelist of big spending...
CORNELIUS SHIELDS ON SAILING. Corny's own philosophy for winning races is also a frank memoir of the man, who at 70 is the champion U.S. skipper...
...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel-prizewinning author wrote this memoir of his lean years in the Paris of the '20s when he was in his 50s, rich, famous but passe. Feast reveals Hemingway's deadly, deadpan sense of humor, his lingering romanticism, but most of all the degree to which he fooled himself about the rich and glamorous, who, he thought, virtually kidnaped him into their world...