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...flak from Democratic (and even some G.O.P.) legislators when she testifies on Capitol Hill, but some of the most ferocious criticism she has recently faced comes from an unlikely source: John Bolton, the fiery conservative who served under Rice as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In his new memoir, Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad, Bolton - known to be close to Vice President Dick Cheney - outlines some of the internal foreign policy battles in the Administration of George W. Bush, and paints President Bush himself as betraying his own gut instinct...
Former member of the Dutch Parliament, free-speech activist and author of the memoir Infidel...
Self-effacing is rarely a term used to describe wildly successful venture capitalists. Yet in Tom Perkins' memoir, the Silicon Valley legend--hardly short of ego--manages that trick, revealing himself in all his "nerdy" glory and lifting the veil on the very good life. He sews dry humor through tales of yachting triumphs, road rallies in expensive cars, tech start-ups and the boardroom coup he instigated at Hewlett Packard. Looking back without rancor or remorse, he has a knack for storytelling that makes him feel like a buddy who never fails to laugh at himself...
...style of liberalism grates in a way that Bill's doesn't. His liberalism seems practical, in keeping with his "can't we all get along?" bonhomie. Hillary's liberalism has a more admonitory edge, in keeping with her buttoned-up demeanor. In her memoir, Living History, she writes that she was tasked in grade school with keeping the "incorrigible boys" in line, a role that seems entirely in character. Conservatives bristle at the sense of being told what to do, and they detect a tone of moral superiority in her advocacy of children's programs and health care. When...
Black has revealed some of her secrets to ambitious young women, with a smart new advice book cum memoir called Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life). Ambitious would certainly describe Black at the beginning of her career in 1966 as a lowly sales assistant at the now defunct Holiday magazine. She moved fast from the start, sometimes too fast for her own good. She once left her résumé on a copy machine at work, where it was found by a senior executive at Curtis Publishing Co., Holiday's owner. Oops. She learned...