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...Nixon? At times it means conflict, at times dilemma, or battle, or the throwing of rocks. But most often it means decision--an important decision that Mr. Nixon has had to make. Indeed it is this strange nomenclature that makes his book so different from the ordinary memoir, for he has related his public doings not as actions but as struggles, dark, tortured, private struggles...
Taylor's intention as a professional historian is to reclaim the Second World War from the journalist popularizers, sensationalists and memoir-writers who have, with astonishingly few exceptions, provided us with our view of the origins. The concurrent influences their inaccuracies and simplification and the moral revulsion inspired Hitler's domestic order, have been disastrous for our understanding the War, Taylor feels. His book convinces me he is right...
This merry memoir by a hard-shirking 18th century wrongdoer proves that the wicked and slothful do not always suffer for their sins. William Hickey, the son of a prosperous London attorney, gathered rosebuds by the armload for the greater part of his life, suffered no ill effects except those that could be cured by doses of mercury, and showed no inclination either to repent or boast when cooling blood gave him the leisure to write it all down...
...moralists, the memoir ends badly. Eventually Hickey returned to India, and without much effort won wealth and honor as an attorney. When he left India for the last time at the age of 59, he disposed of a household of 63 servants and five horses. The narrative he wrote captures his era as bawdily and well as do Hogarth's engravings. But in any good memoir it is the man, not the times, whose flavor dominates. Hickey, neither as deep as Boswell nor as intense as Casanova, still was something other than a fool with a strong constitution...
...several weeks the only non-doctor to see him-after he was felled by a stroke in October 1919, jealously guarded his failing health until his death in 1924, after which she lived in semi-retirement and caught the public eye again only with the 1939 publication of My Memoir, her intimate and often disputed account of Wilson's public and private life...