"It's the first memoirs of a prime minister since John Major, which was over 10 years ago.
Around this time, the first memoirs of top wartime figures, including Zhukov, were released, and films emphasized Soviet bravery while downplaying the horror and the suffering of the German invasion.
One of the first memoirs of this genre to hit bookstores was Mr. Paternot's "A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success and Reckoning," published in July by John Wiley & Sons.
In his first memoir, "Planet of the Blind," Stephen Kuusisto recreated the blurred landscape of his blindness — "my eyes dance in a private, rising field of silver threads, teeming greens, roses and smoke".
This period is humorously described in his first memoir, Son of Adam — made into a David Puttnam film, My Life So Far (1999), starring Colin Firth.
Her first memoir, Infidel, tells of her emergence on to the European political stage from a Somali desert culture.
(Her illness was the subject of her remarkable first memoir, "The Two Kinds of Decay").
I think of the boy often now that I have a finished copy of my first memoir.
He has written two best-selling books, the first a memoir of Red Sox fandom, the second a popular history of the N.B.A. His regular podcasts, "The B.S. Report," are downloaded an average of 600,000 times each.
"Four and a half years of watching films several times a week", he recalls in in his second memoir, Ways of Escape: it was "a way of life which I adopted quite voluntarily from a sense of fun".
