Mr. Kerry did meet in Paris in 1971 with Communist leaders -- a secret only until he described it a few months later in his Senate testimony.
Alone in the house, he would hear footsteps until his mother, whom he describes as "a bit of a witch", visited and did a cleansing.
The son of a swimming coach and a model, and an only child until the age of nine, he describes his childhood self as rather precocious, but not very good at fitting into the sporty private school he attended in Croydon.
But as he vows to stay put until they throw him out, he describes a basic inequity.
And Hewitt notes that he wouldn't mind waiting for that, were it not for the reasoning behind the wait time, which he describes as "guilty until proven innocent".
Until recently, he described himself in Who's Who as a "financial executive," and, indeed, he looks like a bookkeeper — tall, thin, with an austere face, in which severe eyes peer unblinkingly from behind thick glasses.
It was Coalition ministers who decided on a huge and rapid expansion of the test, in May 2011, to re-assess 1.5m existing incapacity benefit claimants, despite apparent warnings from their own expert advisor, Professor Malcolm Harrington, that the rollout should be delayed until what he described as an "inhumane and mechanistic" test could be further refined.
For a time, on Thursday nights, the bookshop hosted weekly meetings of the staff of the New Inquiry, the lefty Web magazine, until Michael had what he described as a falling-out with the editors.
He decides that he will set himself to describing every instant of his life, and until he has described them all he will no longer think about being dead.
