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A later memoir about his parents, "Kathleen and Frank" (1971), Parker finds self-serving and inaccurate.
Some writers of her generation embraced confessional literature and, later, memoir.
"The heads of the college thought proper to visit his chamber, and finding Hume's 'Treatise on Human Nature,' then recently published, the reverend inquisitors seized that heretical book, and severely reprimanded the young philosopher," a later memoir tells.
Gerald Heard, the Irish intellectual and eccentric, was another close friend; it was Heard who introduced Isherwood to his Hollywood guru, Swami Prabhavananda, who would play such an important role in Isherwood's life as a spiritual mentor (he is the subject of Isherwood's later memoir "My Guru and His Disciple").
Was Roosevelt really ignorant of the implications of what he was doing?" A later memoir of this kind is "The Ordeal of Power," an insider account of the Eisenhower administration written by Emmet John Hughes, a presidential aide and top speechwriter.
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In the longer perspective of his later memoirs he returns to individuals – lovers, writers and, most hauntingly, his parents – he has already portrayed in fictional form.
The later movies, and the later "memoirs" that went with them, the excruciatingly lazy joke books — Ian Frazier wrote a very funny parody of them in these pages — are, as Zoglin knows, terrible, and he doesn't pretend to admire them.
Later, memoirs like "The God Squad" by Paddy Doyle and "Fear of the Collar" by Patrick Touher, as well as "Dear Daughter," a television documentary about a woman named Christine Buckley, all bore vivid witness to the savagery visited upon children by the school authorities, including priests and nuns.
The later movies, and the later "memoirs" that went with them, the excruciatingly lazy joke books Ian Frazier wrote a very funny parody of them in these pages are, as Zoglin knows, terrible, and he doesn't pretend to admire them.
In an essay in Slate two years ago, he lamented that as his later memoirs "'Tis" and "Teacher Man" brought him closer to the present, his publisher forced him to change more and more names and details, to avoid offending the living and their lawyers.
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