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- Downey postpones plans to pen memoir
- NEW YORK AP -- The "Iron Man" will not be wielding a pen: Robert Downey Jr. has postponed plans to write a memoir and has returned his advance to publisher HarperCollins, a spokeswoman for the actor told The Associated Press. Britney Ross of Rogers & Cowan declined to...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- Obama's Empty Rhetoric Will Fail Him in Office
- That CINC-ing Feeling Barack Obama's tent-revival rhetoric stirs his followers' emotions. But in them there is a disturbing lack of the usual tools of leadership that may indicate a disqualification to serve as Commander-in-Chief. Great leaders have to be great communicators, not just orators. Throughout history, they have...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- The freest black man in America: Clarence Thomas, associate justice from Pin Point, Ga
- TO be born into a minority group is, among other things, to be born into a collective experience of insecurity. Put differently, it is to be born into a group of nervous people. If you are born black in America, as has been my own fate, then you are born...
- Research articles 2007-10-22
- Cherie Blair memoir to hit bookshops next year
- LONDON AFP — Cherie Blair has struck a deal to publish "a warm, intimate" and funny memoir of her family's life in politics, her publisher said Wednesday. Cherie Blair, who uses her maiden name Booth in her career as a human rights lawyer, will see her memoir hit the...
- Research articles 2007-09-19
- VIEW INTO A TROUBLED WORLD
- O'Driscoll, Sean Irish Voice 10-11-2005 THERE is a photo in Dr. Kevin Cahill's memoirs of a female body protruding from the rubble of a Nicaraguan earthquake in 1972. Her legs are trapped under tones of concrete, her body lies face down...
- Research articles 2005-10-11
- Lauren Bacall book offers memories of 'Bogie' and 'Kate'
- NEW YORK AFP — The publication next week of the second volume of Lauren Bacall's autobiography promises to shed light on the screen legend's marriage to Humphrey Bogart, and her sense of loss at the death of Katherine Hepburn. "By Myself and Then Some," published by Harper Collins, is...
- Research articles 2005-02-25
- Rearview Mirror, The
- The Rearview MirrorTwo Must-Read Books for ConservativesAs an author and a literary critic, Chilton Williamson, Jr. has surveyed the landscape of conservative literature throughout his career as literary editor at National Review for 14 years and currently as book review editor for Chronicles. In The Conservative Bookshelf, Williamson highlights 50...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Pavarotti skewered by manager's memoir
- NEW YORK AFP — A newly published memoir by Luciano Pavarotti's manager paints a less than flattering portrait of the great Italian tenor as a spoiled superstar whose ego was matched only by his girth. And while the "The King and I" by Herbert Breslin focuses on his 35-year...
- Research articles 2004-10-21
- The chastening of the times.(Howell Raines, former executive editor at the New York Times)(Biography)
- On March 9, 2003, a distinguished group of high-ranking politicians and journalists descended on the Bryant Park Hotel to attend a wedding reception for the then-executive editor of the New York Times, Howell Raines. Raines, in a white dinner jacket and black pants, swooned for the...
- Research articles 2004-10-11
- Clinton memoir 'eye-crossingly dull': New York Times
- NEW YORK AFP ? "Sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull," was the verdict of the New York Times on the publishing event of the year -- Bill Clinton's 957-page memoir "My Life." In a particularly scathing review, the Times denigrated the book as a mirror of Clinton's presidency, with...
- Research articles 2004-06-20
- Memoirs: An actress, a shah's wife, an ex-nun
- Three noteworthy new memoirs are in circulation this week: * 'Tis Herself: A Memoir by Maureen O'Hara with John Nicoletti (Simon & Schuster, $25). The Irish beauty and actress began her career in Dublin's Abbey Theatre. She starred in classics: The Quiet Man with John Wayne, directed by John...
- Research articles 2004-03-25
- Monica to Narrate Hillary's Audio Book
- In the publicity coup of the year, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky was chosen today to narrate the audio book version of Sen. Hillary Clinton's best-selling memoir, "Living History." The former intern, who has recently forged careers as a reality-TV host and a handbag designer, said she was...
- Research articles 2003-06-17
- Black Unlike Me.(White Boy: A Memoir by Mark D. Naison) (book review)
- WHITE BOY: A Memoir. By Mark D. Naison. Temple. 256 pp. $69.50. Paper $19.95. Amid all the hubbub surrounding the defections of Professors Cornel West and K. Anthony Appiah from Harvard to Princeton recently, it went unmentioned that only thirty years ago, African-American studies...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- WHERE ARE THEY NOW? IN THE SECOND OF A TWO-PART SERIES, FIVE EX-INDUSTRY EXECS DISCUSS THE PROS AND CONS OF LIFE OUTSIDE THE FOOTWEAR BUSINESS.
- When Wayne Weaver left the helm of Nine West Group in 1993, he traded pumps for cleats, becoming the majority owner of The Jacksonville Jaguars football team. After making footwear history with his directional Margaret Jerrold line back in the 1960s, Jerry Miller retired to France...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- H. G. J. as a Biographer's Subject - economist Harry G. Johnson
- Some Autobiographical Writings D. E. MOGGRIDGE [*] ABSTRACT. In the last decade of his life, Harry Johnson (1923-1977) wrote a number of autobiographical pieces. He published three relating to his periods in Cambridge (1946-47 and 1949-55), but he did not publish two long autobiographical notes and a series...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Faith, sex & poetry. - Review - book review
- The Virgin of Bennington Kathleen Norris Riverhead, $24.95, 272 pp. Kathleen Norris opens her new memoir with an epigraph from Saint Augustine's Confessions, and the youthful adventures of the first few chapters suggest that this book may be Augustinian in content, at least when it comes to the...
- Research articles 2001-05-18
- A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman.(Review) (book review)
- A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman. Lt. Colonel Charles W. Dryden (Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1997). 409 pages, $29.95. Charles W. "Chuck" Dryden has done a masterful job of transmitting to us his unique experience as a Tuskegee Airman and...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
- Lying Down with the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power.(Review) (book review)
- Lying Down with the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power, by Ronald V. Dellums and H. Lee Halterman. Beacon Press, 220 pages, $25.00. Politics, writes Ronald Dellums, "is not about personalities." Looking back on...
- Research articles 2000-04-24
- DUTCH: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. - Review - book reviews
- DUTCH: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris Random House, $35 FITTINGLY ENOUGH for a book about Ronald Reagan, I forget who told me this, but it makes sense: Bob Loomis, the Random House editor responsible for Edmund Morris, apparently fell down on the job. Loomis should...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- Philly recollections.(KYW-TV anchor agrees to write his memoirs)
- KYW-TV Philadelphia anchor Larry Kane has signed an agreement with Temple University Press to write his memoirs. The story is to be told through the major stories of Kane's career, which spans 30 years and all three of Philadelphia's network stations.
- Research articles 1999-10-04
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