Word: memoirist
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...Berlin newspaper beat on Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler invaded Poland. At this remote date, he has little new to add by way of fact or interpretation to a subject summed up in his subtitle as "How World War II Began." But he is a first-rate memoirist. His service lies in reconstructing the mesmerized mood of the late 1930s, when Hitler taught those statesmen who tried to reason with him a ghastly object lesson in shattered complacency...
EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette; edited by Robert Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist that the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
Best Reading EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette; edited by Robert Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist (Chéri, Gigi, Mitsou, Claudine) the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
Discreet Deletion. When Schlesinger's articles first appeared, his rival Kennedy memoirist Ted Sorensen congratulated him in a letter: "I read your articles with admiration and envy. No one has shown that you impaired in any way the national security or even our national interest." Later, Sorensen apparently changed his mind and joined the chorus of critics. "It is not in the national interest," he said at a press conference, "to destroy a man's influence and usefulness." To show that he was as good as his word, Sorensen promptly deleted from the galleys of his own book...
...judgment, and frequently did. As early as 1942 he foresaw the postwar threat of Russia and at summit councils vigorously opposed the inclination of Churchill and Roosevelt to give Stalin just about anything he demanded. The Reckoning could have rested securely on those wartime achievements. But the memoirist could not resist shrouding them with the dark afterthoughts that beset the involuntary and unhappy exile from power...