It is the latest in a string of memoirs emerging from Bush administration figures trying to define the history of their tenure.
Over the past few years there has been a string of memoirs by highly successful former management consultants, finally pulling back the flow-charts.
Wilson said sport was not a factor, but a string of memoirs by his cabinet colleagues at the time revealed that he had been worried about how the World Cup would affect his chances of being substituted out of Downing Street.
But while "This Boy's Life" sold modestly, there followed a string of literary memoirs of harrowing experience, including Elizabeth Wurtzel's "Prozac Nation" (about depression), Susanna Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted" (mental illness), Lucy Grealy's "Autobiography of a Face" (disfigurement) and Mary Karr's "Liar's Club" (alcoholism and general family craziness), to name a few.
Australian-born Clive James, appointed a CBE for services to literature and media, is a published poet, novelist and author of a string of best-selling memoirs.
Reichl is former restaurant critic at the Los Angeles Times and New York Times, former editor of Gourmet magazine and is already author of a string of best-selling memoirs.
First, the New York City native animator wrote a 52-page novella entitled Quincy And The Delicate Dandelions, a sort-of memoir that chronicles a string of his own failed relationships over a span of seven years.
Miss Buckley's books include Volume 1 of her memoirs, "String of Pearls: On the News Beat in New York and Paris," published in 2001.
Buckley's memoir, "String of Pearls," describes those wire service years, first in New York and then in Paris, and concludes with her 1956 decision to move to National Review.
The most notable super-size play of late 20th-century American theatre was an epic two-parter – Tony Kushner's Angels in America – but the rule of three applied to Neil Simon's autobiographical string of alphabetically branded plays: Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues (1985) and Broadway Bound (1986).
Indeed, the poet Donald Hall's first volume of memoirs about growing up in New England was aptly titled "String Too Short to Be Saved," which indicates that this anecdote reflects a widespread habit or is apocryphal.
