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...activity is so pervasive that it has inspired a verb. "Scrapbooking is the quilting bee of this century," says Deana McIlroy, a mother of two who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and gets together with friends and a consultant (yes, there are certified experts in the field) to scrapbook. The Hobby Industry Association estimates that more than $300 million was spent on scrapbooks last year, up from about $200 million...
What's ironic is that this most traditional pursuit has been reinvigorated by modern technologies. A scrapbook would seem antithetical to the digital age: a clunky, tangible thing in a universe of rapidly deleted e-mail and disappearing web pages. But it was only within the past decade or so that manufacturers began mass producing acid-free paper (which prevents pictures from yellowing or deteriorating) and that machines able to replicate photos began turning up in craft shops and drugstores...
...inertia often breaks down during what is known in the industry as "life transitions"--weddings, births and deaths. Dana Brosnahan, 28, of West Bend, Wis., sought an outlet after her mother's death. "I wanted to have something for my kids so they would know my mother," she says. Scrapbooks appeal to the historian in each of us. In Milwaukee, Jan Schwabe, 41, took the politic route of making a "heritage book" of her husband's family. "He now appreciates my being into scrapbooking," she says. "And for the first time, he isn't asking me how much I spent...
Those journeys in long shadows are the scrapbook of this race. "Oh, Dad," McCain said wistfully, looking out the window of his bus last Friday, when asked what his father would have thought about this moment. "To be candid, he wouldn't understand. He was a military man from the time he was 16. The saddest day of his life was the day he left the Navy. So I'm sure he would be proud, but I think there would be some of it he would just not feel familiar with." Bush doesn't have that problem. His father knows...
...This departure from the usual techniques of biography is hardly the last, as one discovers throughout the book. Morris revives an old Victorian form with a dialogue chapter, frequently lapses into screenplay scripts, letters, diary entries, speeches, interviews, scrapbook pages and author's notes. This varied format lends a vibrant immediacy to Reagan's life, one which would be hard to recreate within the confines of traditional biography. Morris, who thinks in terms of music, has infused the text with references to music--from "The Old Rugged Cross," Reagan's favorite hymn, to Liszt's Faust Symphony...