Memoirs of an Anti Semite

The first was Katharine Hepburn's memoirs, and the second was a biography of Marlene Dietrich.

LONDON George W. Bush has started work on his memoirs. Count to ten before you respond.

Eventually accompanied him to his ranch to help him on those memoirs, never fully understanding why he'd chosen me to spend so many hours with.

One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work sharing.

And I also encountered a project called Six Word Memoirs where people were asked, take your whole life and please sum this up into six words, such as these here Found true love, married someone else.

Since I have had no opportunity to ask him, I have to rely on his memoirs, The Age of Turbulence , for clues. But that book was published in 2007 before, presumably, his intellectual structure fell apart.

Since I have had no opportunity to ask him, I have to rely on his memoirs, The Age of Turbulence , for clues. But that book was published in 2007 before, presumably, his intellectual structure fell apart.

In his memoirs, Long Road to Freedom, he wrote that he survived during those years of captivity because he always decided to look upon his oppressor as also being a human being, also being a human being.

But the memoirs of these rebellious vanguards of yesteryear highlight only their youthful passion and pure idealism, or their sufferings and those of their parents. They do not mention their own barbaric assaults, vandalism, and looting, or their kangaroo courts.

Yet the effort put into those memoirs by the man who called himself Minister Mentor during his later years offers a clue about Lee s ultimate concern. His legacy in terms of Singapore s past success may be clear, but what about the future?

Doubtless, we will learn more about Blair s justifications for what he did, and further articulations of his interventionist creed, when he goes on the lecture circuit and, in due course, publishes his memoirs. The pathos of his situation, though, is that no one is listening anymore.

Greenspan listened patiently and quietly to Bernanke s logic. But Greenspan s memoirs, to be published later this month, will no doubt strongly defend his famous decisions to bail out financial markets with sharp interest rate cuts in 1987, 1998, and 2001, arguing that the world might have fallen apart otherwise.

In his memoirs, Greenspan revealed that his favorite economist was Joseph Schumpeter, inventor of the concept of creative destruction. In Greenspan s summary of Schumpeter s thinking, a market economy will incessantly revitalize itself from within by scrapping old and failing businesses and then reallocating resources to newer, more productive ones.

Second, these memoirs are usually little more than slabs of self justification interspersed with lists of famous people met in the course of life at the top. To take one example, while Bill Clinton speaks with warmth, wit, and great eloquence in the flesh, his autobiography is not worth reading.

Because he opposed the hard liners in his own government, he was put under house arrest until his death in 2005, and his memoirs had to be smuggled out of the country on cassettes, disguised as Peking Opera recordings. They have just been published in English and Chinese, but cannot be legally distributed in China.

LOS ANGELES Forty years ago this month, more than 50 nations gathered in the East Room of the White House to sign the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In his memoirs, US President Lyndon B. Johnson called it the most significant step we had yet taken to reduce the possibility of nuclear war.

We know from a long trail of documents, memoirs, and interviews that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a pretext. Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz wanted war with Saddam all through the 1990's, and urged regime change as a policy for President Clinton, who wisely rejected such irresponsible advice.

The Lyndon Johnson that I saw in the last years of his life, when I helped him on his memoirs, was a man who had spent so many years in the pursuit of work, power and individual success, that he had absolutely no psychic or emotional resources left to get him through the days once the presidency was gone.

Lee Kuan Yew, who presided over Singapore either directly or indirectly for more than a half century remaining influential right up to his death at 91 had more time in power than most to do so. Several volumes of memoirs attest to Lee s concern about his legacy, although Singapore s extraordinary success under his leadership speaks for itself.

It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life, the sense that there but for fortune go I.

The release of Alan Greenspan s ghostwritten memoirs The Age of Turbulence has elicited charges that he was not such a great central banker after all. Stan Collender of National Journal sees the fingerprints of the White House on these attacks Greenspan is harshly critical of George W. Bush s administration, after all, and to attack the credibility of Republican ex policymakers who are critical of Bush is standard counterpunching for it.

Though his memoirs paint a characteristic portrait of a leader who knew what he was doing, research for my new biography shows that his policy towards the crisis across the Mediterranean combined hope and frustration. He hoped that France could dominate the National Liberation Front (FLN) militarily, and was frustrated at the extremely messy political situation on the ground and the difficulty of persuading the settlers that maintaining the status quo was untenable.

LOS ANGELES Revelations in former President George W. Bush s recently published memoirs show that he declined an Israeli request to destroy Syria s secret nuclear reactor in the spring of 2007. While the revelation may appear merely to be a historical footnote, more profoundly it raises new uncertainty about whether Israel now thinks that it can rely on the United States to apply military force to stop Iran s nuclear program should diplomacy fail.