He says Bush Administration veterans will be the "source of very bad, dishonest memoirs".
Van Druten is remembered for writing I Am a Camera ("Me no Leica" said one disobliging critic) based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin memoirs, source of the musical Cabaret.
Sources: John Y . Beall "Memoir of John Yates Beall George Grenville Benedictct, "Army Life in Virginia"; William Blair, "We Are Coming, Father Abraham — Eventually: The Problem of Northern Nationalism in the Pennsylvania Recruiting Drives of 1862," in "The War Was You and Me," ed.
Forty years later, Keppel, by then Earl of Albemarle, would remember Charlotte in his memoirs, the source of many of the anecdotes of Charlotte as a small girl.
The chief source of information is a highly romanticized memoir by his son, who was not yet 4 when he died, and who idealized him, in Reiss's words, as "the purest, noblest man who ever lived".
(This may have been a dialectical source of the poet Mary Karr's recent memoir of her childhood, "The Liar's Club"; that best seller is soon to be followed by the avidly awaited memoir of her adolescence, "Cherry," a slang reference to virginity. I enjoy digressions).
In Gordon-Reed's new book, "The Hemingses of Monticello," her single most revealing source is the memoir of Madison Hemings, printed by a newspaperman named S. F. Wetmore in an obscure Ohio paper called the Pike County Republican in 1873.
Furthermore, as Sphyroeras points out, the work is unique in Modern Greek literature in its subject matter, and is, as the Memoirs, a significant source of linguistic and cultural information.
Ultimately, the book's flaw is the source of its necessarily bemused vitality: it is a memoir about an illness that destroys memory.
The only other source of the time Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, the official memoirs of the emperor only briefly mention a few events in Bengal.
