In an event on digital scholarship in March, he told an Emory audience, "This archive is nostalgic for me, and in the specific case of the memoir I was going back to try to create, it was essential".
Economic historiography has thrown rays of haggard light into some of the blackest corners of the Third Reich, even where, as in the case of the memoirs of Hitler's last minister of armaments, Albert Speer, much was concealed or distorted.
Even if the format offers room for improvement, at least it can be revisited in future or (as often in the case of family memoirs) accessed when the time is right for those with an interest in reading it.
Indeed, as Egerton remarks, 'Are not [officials] uniquely disqualified, by years of habit-forming professional obfuscation, from telling the truth about what they have done and why they did it?' With good reason, concerns about factual contamination and mendacity are increased in the case of spy memoirs.
Nevertheless, Not Working is rather a clunky mashup of case studies, memoir, literary criticism and biography.
Enigma brings together twelve narrative case studies --and a pinch of memoir -- under the umbrella of human desire, exploring the many conscious and unconscious forms our "wants" can take.
The brand effect particularly comes into play when the writer's relative adopts the same genre -- in the case of the McCourts, the memoir; with the Chopras, spirituality.
Sometimes, as in the case of Mr. Cronkite's memoirs, "A Reporter's Life" (1996), patience was necessary: Mr. Green had to gently prod Mr. Cronkite to finish.
(In addition to Frey, Winfrey promoted what may be the strangest phony-memoir case of all: that of Herman Rosenblat, a Holocaust survivor who embellished his true story of survival in the camps with an invented, sentimental twist — his "angel," a little girl who, he claimed, threw apples to him over the camp's fence).
MOSCOW -- When Sergio D'Angelo arrived in Moscow this month to promote his new book -- "The Pasternak Case: Memoirs of a Witness" -- the sprightly 85-year-old Italian was immediately greeted with his first bad review.
