But Lloyd's memoir is also important for the window it offers into trafficking in this country.
But it's an indication, too, that the history of the first lady memoir is also a history of unequal pay for equal work.
But Friend's memoir is also a study in the decline of the Wasp, the deliquescence of their fortune, power, and influence.
What was on Mr. Young's mind as he wrote his memoir is also in the songs: personal memories, mortality, friendship, love, metaphysics and the mediocre sound of mp3s.
The memoir is also composed of sharp vignettes of the political scene; snaps of Mussolini, Gandhi and Mandela; and sightings of French intellectuals: Sartre, totally blind at the end of his life, Marguerite Duras holding court at Le Duc, "at a table paid for by Claude Berri," he added.
Your memoir is also a fascinating study of how patterns of behaviour are repeated by one generation after another… I think in a lot of cultures there's this psychological idea of the impacted family secret that keeps getting played out generation after generation until it's suddenly revealed, and then future generations can be freed from it.
The memoir is also clarified by Aitkenhead's stringent self-assessments – "In the departures hall at Montego Bay airport I unravel into a monstrous brat"; "As I'm boxing everything up, I'm struck by a thought so dangerously ugly, I want to scrub my brain with bleach.
The memoir is also flecked with delicious family anecdotes: a young aunt unwinds her tresses on her way to bed when her excited father calls out from the kitchen where negotiations have been in progress, "Zalfa, do up your hair again; we've married you off!" Why look back?
But the memoir is also -- in its first half, before Hertzberg ascends into active communal life -- an extremely subtle, sensitive portrait of an American Jewish childhood, what it felt like to grow up as a devout, Yiddish-speaking, scholarly Polish Jewish immigrant to the United States during the Depression and wartime.
