In 1986, the editors of "Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine" parodied her as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington." In 1989, "Spy magazine" labeled her as the "author of too-frequent Washington columns." In 2014, President Richard Nixon's former aide Frank Gannon disputed Drew’s “blithe assertions that Nixon was a Dilantin-addicted alcoholic,” arguing that they were “as untrue as they are ugly.”
Criticism
Elizabeth Drew
Elizabeth Drew | Criticism
She has been criticised by the editors of "Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine"  as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington." In 1986, the editors of "Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine" parodied her as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington." In 1989, "Spy magazine" labeled her as the "author of too-frequent Washington columns." In 1986, the editors of "Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine" parodied her as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington." "Spy magazine" labeled her as the "author of too-frequent Washington columns."
what is checkers speech?
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An address by Senator Richard Nixon.
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who is nixon?
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The 37th president of the United States.
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where was he born?
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Yorba Linda, California.
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what was the watergate scandal?
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It was an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration.
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describe his policies related to space?
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He disapproved plans for a permanent base on moon, Mars expedition, Manned Orbital Laboratory program for funds. But he approved a five -year cooperative program between NASA and Soviet space program.
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for what was he given a pardon?
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For the Watergate scandal.
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what kind of service did he give to the military?
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He was a lieutenant in the United States Navy.
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did he ever resign from the position of president?
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Yes, as he lost his political support and feared impeachment.
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how was his public image?
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Biographer Elizabeth Drew summarized Nixon as a "smart, talented man, but most peculiar and haunted of presidents".
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did he write any books?
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Yes, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon", and nine other books.
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what is the criticism faced by the aforementioned biographer?
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In 1986, the editors of "Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine" parodied her as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington." In 1989, "Spy magazine" labeled her as the "author of too-frequent Washington columns." In 2014, President Richard Nixon's former aide Frank Gannon disputed Drew’s “blithe assertions that Nixon was a Dilantin-addicted alcoholic,” arguing that they were “as untrue as they are ugly.”
Elizabeth Drew | Criticism
Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns asked of Nixon, "How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?" Nixon's biographers disagree on how he will be perceived by posterity. According to Ambrose, "Nixon wanted to be judged by what he accomplished. What he will be remembered for is the nightmare he put the country through in his second term and for his resignation." Irwin Gellman, who chronicled Nixon's Congressional career, suggests, "He was remarkable among his congressional peers, a success story in a troubled era, one who steered a sensible anti-Communist course against the excess of McCarthy." Aitken feels that "Nixon, both as a man and as a statesman, has been excessively maligned for his faults and inadequately recognised for his virtues.
Richard Nixon | Legacy
Drew has published 14 books, including "Washington Journal: The Events of 1973-74" (1975), an account of the Watergate scandal; "Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign" (1981); "On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency" (1994); "Citizen McCain" (2002); and "George W. Bush's Washington" (2004). Her most recent book is "Richard M. Nixon" (2007). "Washington Journal" was re-issued in 2014, with a new afterword.
Elizabeth Drew | Career
"Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character" was published in late 1981 and received reviews less enthusiastic than for any of her earlier books. Writing in "The New Republic", Godfrey Hodgson questioned both her psychoanalytic approach and her motives: "[W]e are in danger of having the insights of psychotherapy used as a tool for character destruction, certainly for libel, potentially for revenge." According to J. Philipp Rosenberg, Brodie's study of Richard Nixon's early career demonstrated a weakness of psychobiography because it was written by an author who disliked her subject. Sales of the book were disappointing, in part because of the reviews, and in part because memoirs by Nixon associates such as Henry Kissinger, John Ehrlichman, and John Dean had recently flooded the market.
Fawn M. Brodie | Reviews
In 1978, Nixon published his memoirs, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon", the first of ten books he was to author in his retirement. The book was a bestseller and attracted a generally positive critical response. Nixon visited the White House in 1979, invited by Carter for the state dinner for Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Carter had not wanted to invite Nixon, but Deng had said he would visit Nixon in California if the former president was not invited. Nixon had a private meeting with Deng and visited Beijing again in mid-1979. On August 10, 1979, the Nixons purchased a 12‐room condominium occupying the seventh floor of 817 Fifth Avenue New York City after being rejected by two Manhattan co-ops.
Richard Nixon | Author and elder statesman
The pair also sat for a joint retrospective '40 years later' interview on their Watergate reporting with CBS in 2014. In his 1978 memoir "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon", the former president gave an account of the famous night-before-resignation-announcement scene that presents it as shorter and more business-like, but allows that his sense of "agony" and "loss" became "most acute" for him that night. Kissinger's 1982 memoir "Years of Upheaval" calls the Woodward and Bernstein narrative "an unfeeling account" but presents a description of the encounter that is not that far away from theirs. Both Nixon and Kissinger have the encounter starting in the Lincoln Sitting Room but ending in the Lincoln Bedroom.
The Final Days | Legacy
Brodie considered a range of subjects for a new biography. Brigham Young was a clear field, but she decided not to “return to old ground”. Richard Nixon had resigned the presidency shortly after she had finished "Jefferson," and Brodie had spoken formally to both students and others about the former president. As a liberal Democrat, Brodie had developed a “repellent fascination" with Nixon, a man whom she called “a rattlesnake”, a “plain damn liar”, and a "shabby, pathetic felon". Although Brodie thought Nixon was an imposter like Joseph Smith, she did not believe him to be the “charming imposter the Mormon leader was".
Fawn M. Brodie | "Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character"
Of his critics, she said that "Lincoln had worse critics. He was big enough not to let it bother him. That's the way my husband is."
Pat Nixon | Marriage and family, early campaigns
A number of those interviews led to books, including two Joan Rivers autobiographies, Louis Armstrong's 1971 self-portrait, Elizabeth Taylor's self-titled 1964 autobiography, and four books on Andrew Wyeth, the last of which was published in 2013. He also reflected on the death of his first wife, artist Hope Meryman, in the 1980 memoir, "Hope: A Loss Survived".
Richard Meryman | Introduction
According to Yates's biographer, AJ Smithers, "The book can by no stretch of the imagination be called an autobiography; rather it is a scrap-book of the Edwardian age as it was seen by the upper-middle or lower-upper classes. It is none the worse for that ... Real characters, and some thinly disguised abound; but in reading it one is hard put to distinguish the experiences of William Mercer and those of Boy Pleydell." The memoirs have been called "denunciations of the changing times", and despite the claim to veracity in the introductory note are "highly subjective opinions on the past", with unhistorical episodes that "valorise the past at the expense of the post-war present".
As Berry and I Were Saying | Critical reception
Knowing that she could never complete a full biography, Brodie ended the manuscript with Nixon's pre-presidential years, lending it an unfinished quality.
Fawn M. Brodie | Illness
... The value of this book lies in the fact that it is a statement of a fully articulate young man about life in a Service which is generally inarticulate. Richard Hillary happens to be a young man who doesn't often find his way into the R.A.F. He is in my view a born writer.'
The Last Enemy (autobiography) | Reception
Hastings is alleged to have said that he did not want any more "bloody Lady Hitler" in the newspaper. Diana and the newspaper resumed their relationship following Hastings' retirement in 2001. She wrote the foreword and introduction of "Nancy Mitford: A Memoir" by Harold Acton. She produced her own two books of memoirs: "A Life of Contrasts" (1977, Hamish Hamilton), and "Loved Ones" (1985). The latter is a collection of pen portraits of close relatives and friends such as the writer Evelyn Waugh among others. In 1980, she released "The Duchess of Windsor", a biography.
Diana Mitford | Writing
Jill Abramson of "The New York Times" finds that Meacham's books are well-researched and contain a combination of current historical interpretations and anecdotal information, but captures the character of former presidents from a heroic perspective, despite their personal flaws. In his biography of Jefferson, Meacham identifies qualities that would be helpful in the current political arena, "Jefferson repeatedly reached out to his enemies and showed ideological flexibility." Regarding the former president's stance on slavery, Meacham states, "Slavery was the rare subject where Jefferson's sense of realism kept him from marshaling his sense of hope in the service of the cause of reform." Selected by the Bush family to be the official biographer for George H.
Jon Meacham | Biographer and book author
Reviews of the book focused both on the disclosures within it and the methods by which it was written. Regarding the first, the "Los Angeles Times" said the book was "Fascinating, macabre, mordant, melancholy, frightening..." "Newsweek", which ran the excerpts, described it as "An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time." The book as a whole gave a more balanced, at times sympathetic, portrait of Nixon. "The New York Times" daily review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt said that the book was "Unprecedented...[Nixon] emerges from the book as a tragic figure weathering a catastrophic ordeal (of his own making, to be sure, but that is the nature of truly tragic ordeals), and weathering it with considerable courage and dignity." This fuller depiction did much to ameliorate the initial denunciations of the book.
The Final Days | Critical response
Vidal asserted that Current never read his book in whole, that he was fault finding, and could not separate a biography from a novel, "getting all tangled up in misread or misunderstood trivia". The real reason for Current's criticism, Vidal maintained, was his portrayal of Lincoln as wanting to colonize the liberated slaves in Liberia, which would go against the political correctness of the 1980s. Ironically, the source of this interpretation according to Vidal was a biography of Lincoln by Current himself.
Richard N. Current | Debate with Gore Vidal
In December 1974, Nixon began planning his comeback despite the considerable ill will against him in the country. He wrote in his diary, referring to himself and Pat, By early 1975, Nixon's health was improving. He maintained an office in a Coast Guard station 300 yards from his home, at first taking a golf cart and later walking the route each day; he mainly worked on his memoirs. He had hoped to wait before writing his memoirs; the fact that his assets were being eaten away by expenses and lawyer fees compelled him to begin work quickly. He was handicapped in this work by the end of his transition allowance in February, which compelled him to part with many of his staff, including Ziegler.
Richard Nixon | Return to public life
"The New York Times" review stated "The book's abrupt shifts in time can annoy after a while, as can the liberties she takes with spelling - "court," "America" and "Rockefeller," for example, become "kourt," "amerika" and "Rockafella." But, all in all, the author provides a spellbinding tale that evokes mixed feelings in the way the autobiographies of Malcolm X, Sonny Carson and Claude Brown did in years past."
Assata: An Autobiography | Critical reception
Nixon painted Elizabeth Farren and other theatrical celebrities, as well as figures of Shakespearean characters. He sent some portraits in oil to the Royal Academy, and in 1786 a series of ten designs illustrating "Tristram Shandy". His portraits of Dr. Francis Willis, the Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth Hartley, and the sisters Jenny and Nelly Bennet were engraved.
James Nixon (painter) | Works
Critics of Tarpley have said that he still sells copies of the book on the Bush family he co-authored while working for Lyndon LaRouche. The book was criticized by David Neiwert, who wrote: Like most Larouche texts, the Bush "biography" is a mélange of fact and distortion, written in a highly suppositional style that makes numerous leaps of logic and asserts connections where there is no real evidence to support it, at other times omitting exculpatory or contrary information that reveals a more complete picture. Sifting through it requires a great deal of work, but there are nuggets of fact woven into their text that are substantiated and which deserve proper consideration.
Webster Tarpley | Criticism
Ross himself both praised and criticised Kendall's work, stating: "Although the author admits that at times he goes beyond the facts and 'reconstructs'..., and in spite of an empurpled prose style which tends to enhance his partisanship, the book is soundly based on a wide range of primary sources, for which it shows a proper respect.""
Richard III (biography) | Critical reception
Hannah Nixon is acknowledged to have exerted a tremendous effect on her son's outlook throughout his life. In Richard Nixon's final remarks at the White House on August 9, 1974, he stated about her, "Nobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother. Well, I guess all of you would say this about your mother – my mother was a saint. And I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others in order that she could take care of my older brother for 3 years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die, and when they died, it was like one of her own.
Hannah Milhous Nixon | Introduction
Richard Corliss, in his review for "Time", also had a problem with Hopkins' portrayal: "Hopkins, though, is a failure. He finds neither the timbre of Nixon's plummy baritone, with its wonderfully false attempts at intimacy, nor the stature of a career climber who, with raw hands, scaled the mountain and was still not high or big enough." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" wrote: "It's gripping psychodrama — just don't confuse "Nixon" with history."
Nixon (film) | Critical reaction
His occasional returns to journalism in the 1970s and 1980s were increasingly difficult and, in his words, "soul-destroying." Birth of a novelist, death of a journalist by David Conley
Robert Drewe | Critical responses
There is a lot of detail of designer dresses worn, official meals enjoyed, furniture and wallpaper restored, tours conducted and, of course, important political people encountered. Tony and Cherie are particular favourites, as is Nicolas Sarkozy, of all people. Vladimir Putin is given the occasional dressing down on the importance of democracy. Barack Obama is chided for his personal attacks on George during the 2008 campaign. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and "Condi" Rice are all portrayed as utterly delightful." "Entertainment Weekly" published a review by Tina Jordan. She wrote, "Anyone who wants to know what makes Laura Bush tick will come away disappointed." Jordan commented as well that Bush "seems almost a shadowy spectator in her own memoir", but Jordan praised the "sweetness and poignancy" of the first few sections of the book covering Bush's childhood and marriage.
Spoken from the Heart | Reviews
Taylor was appointed Director of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace while still working for the former president. His tenure consisted of the growth and expansion of the library, as well as the fostering and preservation of Richard Nixon's presidential legacy. In 1999, Taylor sought to enhance the former's president's image when he authorized the release of 124 Nixon-era White House tapes regarding the Watergate scandal and Nixon's involvement in it. Taylor acknowledged, "The entire record of Watergate needs to be viewed through the prism of [the] Vietnam [War]... Richard Nixon was a war-time president. He will still be criticized for his actions but the criticism will be fairer when viewed in that light." A controversy erupted in 1996, however, between Taylor and President Nixon's daughters Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
John H. Taylor (bishop) | Director of the Nixon Library
He was well read in standard literature, and on all the great political questions of the day. His style of composition was easy and graceful, indicative of a powerful mind. Despite differences of opinion with others, there was no personal antagonism. He was earnest in his advocacy of any cause which he took up, and in his long connection with the press exercised considerable influence on the communities in which he worked.
Francis Hodgson Nixon | Career
After her husband's column was wiped out at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in June 1876, many in the press, Army, and government criticized him for blundering into a massacre. President Ulysses S. Grant publicly blamed him for the disaster. Fearing that her husband was to be made a scapegoat by history, Elizabeth Custer launched a one-woman campaign to rehabilitate her husband's image. Her assistance to Frederick Whittaker, the author of the first biography of George, helped enable the rapid production of the popular book, which praised George's career and set the tone for future biographers in the decades ahead.
Elizabeth Bacon Custer | Defender of her husband's legacy
Nixon's career was frequently dogged by his persona and the public's perception of it. Editorial cartoonists and comedians often exaggerated his appearance and mannerisms, to the point where the line between the human and the caricature became increasingly blurred. He was often portrayed with unshaven jowls, slumped shoulders, and a furrowed, sweaty brow. Nixon had a complex personality, both very secretive and awkward, yet strikingly reflective about himself. He was inclined to distance himself from people and was formal in all aspects, wearing a coat and tie even when home alone. Nixon biographer Conrad Black described him as being "driven" though also "uneasy with himself in some ways".
Richard Nixon | Personality and public image
He clung to the idea of being "tough". He thought that was what had brought him to the edge of greatness. But that was what betrayed him. He could not open himself to other men and he could not open himself to greatness. In October 1999, a volume of 1971 White House audio tapes was released which contained multiple statements by Nixon deemed derogatory toward Jews. In one conversation with H. R. Haldeman, Nixon said that Washington was "full of Jews" and that "most Jews are disloyal," making exceptions for some of his top aides. He then added, "But, Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards.
Richard Nixon | Personality and public image
In 2011 Nixon published her memoirs in the book "Fair Cop" (), which she wrote with Jo Chandler. The book was launched by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. It was criticised by the Police Association Victoria for what the association claims is a biased recollection of events, and by the "Herald Sun".
Christine Nixon | Memoirs
He often spoke lovingly of his mother as a "Quaker saint", and began his memoirs with the words "I was born in a house my father built". Writer Jessamyn West, a cousin of the Nixons, was in Frank's Sunday school class for some time. She later described him as "a fiery persuasive teacher", and wrote that Frank Nixon's version of the social gospel made her favor socialism. By the time of his later adulthood, Nixon often discussed his political opinions with strangers, his son Don remembering his father as being willing to debate anyone he encountered in the family market and having an intolerance of Democrats.
Francis A. Nixon | Career
Nixon's name appears only once and only in a list of committee members. On May 15, 2008, the journalist Daniel Schorr recalled: In his 1960 memoir "Six Crises", Nixon does not mention what he learned from his trip to Europe with the Herter Committee, nor again does he in the 1978 "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon". In his 1980 memoir "The Real War", Nixon recalled: In his 1982 book "Leaders", he mentions meeting Italian Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi during his Herter Committee trip. Nixon recalled: On July 13, 1973, during an exit interview, Herbert G. Klein, Executive Branch Communications Director for Nixon, said: In 2007, Klein recalled:
Herter Committee | Nixon
From the perspective of constructivist literary critique: "Most of the critics who react this way, however, attack the work with counterevidence that is already present in Irving's text. The problem with the biography, therefore, is not that Irving presented only a partial portrait but rather that, in his ambivalence about the character of his hero and the imperialism that established the American colonies, as well as in his confusion about the function of historical writing, he created two portraits of Columbus".
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus | Criticism
Following this trip, Nixon was ranked in a Gallup poll as one of the ten most admired men in the world. In 1986, Nixon addressed a convention of newspaper publishers, impressing his audience with his "tour d'horizon" of the world. At the time, political pundit Elizabeth Drew wrote, "Even when he was wrong, Nixon still showed that he knew a great deal and had a capacious memory, as well as the capacity to speak with apparent authority, enough to impress people who had little regard for him in earlier times." "Newsweek" ran a story on "Nixon's comeback" with the headline "He's back".
Richard Nixon | Author and elder statesman
Ambrose's special triumph that he has been able to fight through the memoranda, the directives, plans, reports, and official self-serving pieties of the World War II establishment to uncover the idiosyncratic people at its center." Ambrose also wrote a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon. Although Ambrose was a strong critic of Nixon, the biography was considered fair and just regarding Nixon's presidency.
Stephen E. Ambrose | Writings
Canadian academic and former diplomat Peter Dale Scott has written that "even Irving’s enemies give him grudging credit for his standard historical writings. And I believe that to write in this field, it is impossible to ignore what Irving has written." Holocaust deniers were still attending Irving's meetings and tours in 2010 but others may see him as unbalanced. According to journalist Julian Kossoff, "It's as if everyone has come round to realising that Irving's as pathetic as he's pathological. As one Holocaust survivor succinctly put it: "I used to really hate him but now I just think he's a nutter." In 2017, Irving claimed to have a younger generation of followers.
Critical responses to David Irving | 21st century
The Clintons are a modern political dynasty, like kings and queens of yore. Bill & Hillary, So This Is That Thing Called Love is the story of how his charm, and her ability to command respect have kept them in the political eye for over 25 years. Hillary ran for the Democratic candidacy before, and lost to Obama, but this time she’s ready. Even if she doesn’t win, she has earned her place in history, not just as a First Lady, but as a political legend.” from "The Midwest Book Review": “'James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes' arrives on the 60th anniversary of the violent death of a young star that became a legend, but if readers who are prior fans of other James Dean biographies expect this to be another rehash of information, they'd be happily mistaken.
Darwin Porter | Criticism
Klein received extensive criticism for his 2005 biography of Hillary Clinton, "The Truth About Hillary". "Politico" criticized the book for "serious factual errors, truncated and distorted quotes and overall themes [that] don't gibe with any other serious accounts of Clinton's life." The conservative columnist John Podhoretz criticized the book in the "New York Post", "Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower. Sixty pages into it, I wanted to be decontaminated. And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn't have to suffer through another word." In the "National Review", conservative columnist James Geraghty wrote, "Folks, there are plenty of arguments against Hillary Clinton, her policies, her views, her proposals, and her philosophies.
Edward Klein | Criticism
Yet even in a spirit of historical revisionism, no simple verdict is possible." Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns asked of Nixon, "How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?" Political historian and pollster Douglas Schoen argues that Nixon was the most important American figure in post-war U.S. politics, while constitutional law professor Cass Sunstein noted in 2017, "If you are listing the five most consequential Presidents in American history, you could make a good argument that Nixon belongs on the list." Historian Melvin Small argues that, "If it is possible to evaluate Nixon's years in the White House without considering his character and the scandals that led to his resignation, then his presidency certainly seems far from a failure." But Small also states, "Watergate did not begin when CREEP operatives broke into Democratic headquarters in 1972.
Presidency of Richard Nixon | Historical reputation
At times, she was vague when discussing her loyalties to Britain, her strong belief in fascism, and her attitude to Jews. In her 1977 autobiography "A Life of Contrasts", she wrote, "I didn't love Hitler any more than I did Winston [Churchill]. I can't regret it, it was so interesting." In her final interviews with Duncan Fallowell in 2002, she responded that her reaction to the newsreels of death camps was "Well, of course, horror. Utter horror. Exactly the same probably as your reactions." However, when asked about having revulsion against Hitler for this, she said that "I had a complete revulsion against the people who did it but I could never efface from my memory the man I had actually experienced before the war.
Diana Mitford | Post-war
The British historian John Charmley commented that "Irving's sources, unlike the conclusions which he draws from them, are usually sound", and that Irving "has been unjustly ignored".
Critical responses to David Irving | 1980s
The work received a large amount of attention in the media, some of it hostile and abusive, vilifying Lyndon. Rather than addressing the issues and arguments raised by Lyndon, many critics instead chose to make verbal personal attacks. They suggested he was sexually inadequate, questioned the size of his penis, his masculinity, his ability to attract women and even the smell of his breath. Almost two decades later feminist writer Julie Burchill continued the verbal personal attack, suggesting he was a "sad-sack" and "the opposite of a man". According to Lyndon, in one review of books of the year, Helena Kennedy refused to even discuss the publication, simply instructing people not to buy it.
Neil Lyndon | Reception
Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Nixon as a below average president. In a 2018 poll of the American Political Science Association's Presidents and Executive Politics section, Nixon was ranked as the 33rd greatest president. A 2017 C-Span poll of historians ranked Nixon as the 28th greatest president. According to historian Stephen E. Ambrose, "Nixon wanted to be judged by what he accomplished. What he will be remembered for is the nightmare he put the country through in his second term and for his resignation." Biographer Jonathan Aitken, by contrast, feels that "Nixon, both as a man and as a statesman, has been excessively maligned for his faults and inadequately recognised for his virtues.
Presidency of Richard Nixon | Historical reputation
He would later attribute much of his expertise to the four years spent working closely with Nixon on his memoirs.
Ken Khachigian | Presidential memoirs and Frost/Nixon interviews
Emery suggests Nixon's definition of a full presidential term as "until the president loses support in Congress" implies that Nixon knew he would not win his impending impeachment trial and he was using this definition to quickly escape office. In his book "Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990", Stephen Ambrose finds that response from United States media to Nixon's speech was generally favorable. This book cites Roger Mudd of CBS News as an example of someone who disliked the speech. Mudd noted that Nixon re-framed his resignation speech to accent his accomplishments rather than to apologize for the Watergate scandal.
Richard Nixon's resignation speech | Critical reaction and analysis
His periodic overindulgences, especially during stressful times such as during Apollo 13, concerned Price and others, including then-advisor Ehrlichman and long-time valet Manolo Sanchez. Author and former British politician David Owen deemed Nixon an alcoholic. Biographer Elizabeth Drew summarized Nixon as a "smart, talented man, but most peculiar and haunted of presidents". In his account of the Nixon presidency, author Richard Reeves described Nixon as "a strange man of uncomfortable shyness, who functioned best alone with his thoughts". Nixon's presidency was doomed by his personality, Reeves argues: He assumed the worst in people and he brought out the worst in them ...
Richard Nixon | Personality and public image
Eden felt the Eisenhower administration's unexpected opposition was hypocritical in light of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état and the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. Eden published three volumes of political memoirs, in which he denied that there had been any collusion with France and Israel. Like Churchill, Eden relied heavily on the ghost-writing of young researchers, whose drafts he would sometimes toss angrily into the flowerbeds outside his study. One of them was the young David Dilks.
Anthony Eden | Memoirs
Such criticism had already been addressed by Sarah Sheppard in her "Characteristics of the Genius and Writings of L E L" of 1841. Her opening paragraph runs: Because they whose decision it is, are subjects of the superficial spirit of the age, which leaves them unacquainted with all of which it appoints them judges. Because, either from a dislike of trouble, or inability to pursue the inquiry, these judges never deviate from their own beaten right line to observe how genius acts and is acted upon,—how it is influenced, and what effects it produces on society. Hence the mistaken opinions concerning literary characters one is often compelled to hear from those who, it is to be feared, know little of what they affirm; and of literary works from those who, it is also to be feared, are not competent to decide on their merits.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon | Reputation
In the course of his work he interviewed and wrote about many celebrities from the entertainment industry, including Humphrey Bogart, Brigitte Bardot, David Niven, Ingrid Bergman, The Beatles, and Marilyn Monroe. In October 1967 he won a National Press Award as Descriptive Writer of the year, the citation spoke of his "bland outrageousness and a deadly certainty of aim". Extending his range, he interviewed major political figures such as a former Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the (then) leader of the Opposition Margaret Thatcher, Lord Mountbatten of Burma and the former Californian Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967, commenting: "it is a whimsical if not uneasy thought that an ex-movie star of many films that escape instant recollection could one day become President of the United States of America".
Donald Zec | Career
The novel is a "tour de force" in the genre of mixed history and fiction or rather in the writerly craft of stretching historical description to (and beyond) its accepted limits. No one seems to know more about Buchanan than Clayton/Updike, and that apparently is one reason why Clayton could never finish his Buchanan biography: he simply could not imagine his subject in any but the most intimate of terms. Writing a standard biography would have been too objectifying an act. He needs the prompt of "memories and impressions" concerning another president to get him going. Clayton also notes the way that sexual mores had changed during his lifetime, recalling that while in the 1970s, it was considered common for teachers at colleges to engage in sexual liaisons with their female students, but by the 1990s that was deemed to be totally unacceptable and even criminal behavior.
Memories of the Ford Administration | Major themes
Finally, Trevor-Roper commented: "When a historian relies mainly on primary sources, which we can not easily check, he challenges our confidence and forces us to ask critical questions. How reliable is his historical method? How sound is his judgment? We ask these questions particularly of a man like Mr. Irving, who makes a virtue of — almost a profession — of using arcane sources to affront established opinions". Trevor-Roper ended by writing "He may read his manuscript diaries correctly. But we can never be quite sure, and when he is at most original, we are likely to be least sure".
Critical responses to David Irving | 1960s–1970s
Heather Cox Richardson praised the book in "The Chicago Tribune", calling it "one of those rare books that delivers a great deal more than it promises"; though critical of what she saw as some factual errors and "unsubstantiated claims" by Applegate, such as Lyman Beecher's role in creating mass media, Richardson concluded that these flaws "do not cripple her story". On April 16, 2007, the book was announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Applegate said of her win, "Half of it is just good luck ... Had it come out four years ago, I don't think the climate was ready for it.
The Most Famous Man in America | Critical response
In "The New York Times" Stephen Pollard called it "an immensely frustrating book, the whole being less than the sum of its rather incompatible parts." Theodore Dalrymple took a favorable view of the biography, writing in "The Globe and Mail": "Without being a hagiography, it is about as powerful a defense of Thatcher's record as is likely ever to be written." In a review on "The Scotsman" Michael Fry argued that the book is an unremarkable, average account of the Thatcher years, but that it did have some redeeming qualities. He wrote: "Some of the books will be good and some bad.
There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters | Critical reception
Doyle furthered that her statements were never enough to offend others and the harshest criticism that could be bestowed upon her was that she was boring. She disagreed with Fox News' Chris Wallace in 2006 when Wallace asked why the American people were beginning to lose confidence in President Bush, saying, "Well, I don't think they are. And I don't really believe those polls. I travel around the country, I see people, I see their response to my husband, I see their response to me. There are a lot of difficult challenges right now in the United States ... All of those decisions that the President has to make surrounding each one of these very difficult challenges are hard.
Laura Bush | Popularity and style
However, Benjamin Schwarz, writing for "The Atlantic", criticized the book, blaming Chernow's unfamiliarity with revolutionary American politics. While he praised Chernow's earlier biographies about Morgan and Rockefeller, his review of "Hamilton" stated, "he's just as obviously not at home in the eighteenth century; his grasp of its religion, attitudes, and intellectual history is unsure, and he lacks command of the ideological, political, sectional, and social differences that divided the early republic." Justin Martin, writing for the "San Francisco Chronicle" additionally thought the book "dry and speculative," as well as slow in pace; "one can only assume that Chernow, despite his abundant talent, is in the grip of a silly literary convention, namely, that bios of major figures must be very, very long."
Alexander Hamilton (book) | Critical response
Hillary's biographer, Denis Richards, writes that the book and its author met with instant acclaim, although the book was unusual in the depth of its storytelling: The author was acclaimed not only as a natural writer, but also as a representative of the doomed youth of his generation, although in his constant self-analysis he was in fact a most untypical British fighter pilot of 1940. In the preface for the book's first edition in 1942 J.B. Priestley wrote: "'The Last Enemy" differs from all other books about the R.A.F. because its author, Richard Hillary, is by temperament and inclination, and to some extent training, a writer.
The Last Enemy (autobiography) | Reception
With the exception of Harding's 1965 edition, there has been "no serious editorial engagement with the "Memoir" and little critical attention paid to it. However, as Sutherland writes, "James Austen-Leigh...assembled a major work of Austenian biography" which has been called the "prime source of all subsequent biographical writings".
A Memoir of Jane Austen | Reception and legacy
Joshua Reynolds, Johnson's friend, told James Boswell that "It seized his attention so strongly that, not being able to lay down the book till he had finished it, when he attempted to move, he found his arm totally benumbed." Walter Jackson Bate writes that the "Life of Savage" "remains one of the innovative works in the history of biography". Margaret Lane writes that the "Life of Savage" "is still the most absorbing of all Johnson's brief biographies and its news value at the time made it compulsive reading."
Life of Mr Richard Savage | Critical response
Nixon taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, from 1981 to 2000, and then joined the faculty at Mills College, Oakland, California. She retired from teaching in 2016. Nixon wrote two unpublished novels before becoming assistant professor at Indiana University. Her first published book was "Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women," a critical essay that examined what Nixon saw as the change in gender power dynamics between D. H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" and "Women in Love", a supposed sequel "The Rainbow". In 1991, Nixon wrote "Now You See It", a novel in stories. It was very favorably reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in the "New York Times, by Richard Locke in "The Wall Street Journal", in "The Chicago Tribune", and "Entertainment Weekly".
Cornelia Nixon | Career
She was described as "unrepentant" about her previous political associations by obituary writers such as the historian Andrew Roberts.
Diana Mitford | Introduction
"The Washington Post" ran a negative review by associate editor Robert G. Kaiser. Kaiser praised the early sections of the book showing Cheney's "rise from humble origins" as an interesting story "briskly told." However, Kaiser argued that Cheney "avoids a great deal" in Cheney's depiction of the Bush administration. Kaiser wrote, Military historian Victor Davis Hanson praised the memoir in "Defining Ideas", a journal published by the Hoover Institution, and he likened Cheney to the mythical Greek figure Ajax. Hanson remarked,
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir | Reviews
Brodie considered “Nixon the perpetrator of an assault on her privacy”.
Fawn M. Brodie | "Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character"
What he hated most in our usual manner of life was the artificial barriers that hold people apart, and the suspiciousness of one class towards another ..."
Ronald Poulton | "In memoriam"
Following his release from prison, Ehrlichman held a number of jobs, first for a quality control firm, then writer, artist and commentator. Ehrlichman wrote several novels, including "The Company", which served as the basis for the 1977 television miniseries "". He served as the executive vice president of an Atlanta hazardous materials firm. In a 1981 interview, Ehrlichman referred to Nixon as a "very pathetic figure in American history." His experiences in the Nixon administration were published in his 1982 book, "Witness To Power". The book portrays Nixon in a very negative light, and is considered to be the culmination of his frustration at not being pardoned by Nixon before his own 1974 resignation.
John Ehrlichman | Post-political life
The "I can't believe Nixon won" quote also was sometimes attributed to other liberal female writers, including Katharine Graham, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion, and was sometimes said to have instead been stated after Ronald Reagan's reelection in 1984.
Pauline Kael | Nixon quote
In 2017 he published his memoirs as a series of essays entitled "I Hate Everyone, Except You". Kelly described the experience of writing his memoirs: This book really was about finally allowing myself to open up to the people who watched me on television for the past 15 or so years. It's basically a way of me saying, “I know that you probably have an idea of who I am, and to a certain extent you’re right, but that’s not all of who I am.” I'm actually just kind of a regular guy who got lucky enough to have a job on television.
Clinton Kelly (TV personality) | Books
From the Midwest Book Review: “Love Triangle: Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman & Nancy Davis may find its way onto many a Republican Reagan fan's reading shelf; but those who expect another Reagan celebration will be surprised: this is lurid Hollywood expose writing at its best, and outlines the truths surrounding one of the most provocative industry scandals in the world. “There are already so many biographies of the Reagans on the market that one might expect similar mile-markers from this: be prepared for shock and awe; because Love Triangle doesn't take your ordinary approach to biography and describes a love triangle that eventually bumped a major Hollywood movie star from the possibility of being First Lady and replaced her with a lesser-known Grade B actress (Nancy Davis).
Darwin Porter | Criticism
Morris has written several books, many co-authored with his wife, Eileen McGann. He authored "Condi vs. Hillary" in which he argues that only Condoleezza Rice could block Hillary Clinton's anticipated 2008 bid for the White House. "Rewriting History" was published in May 2004 as a rebuttal to Hillary Clinton's book, "Living History" (). In it, he argues that Hillary Clinton has presented a false "nice" persona in the book. Morris instead remembers her as manipulative, cold, and single-minded in her pursuit of power. Similarly, Morris and McGann wrote "Because He Could" in response to Bill Clinton's memoir "My Life" ().
Dick Morris | Books
In his review for the Saturday "Age", Guy Rundle wrote that the memoir "follows the party line" when discussing the various scandals that "marked" Kennedy's long career in the Senate. He thought it was useful in documenting the campaigns that Kennedy ran in the 1970s and 1980s. Jonathan Yardley for "The Washington Post" said that "Kennedy [seeks] to be modest about the successes in his long public life and honest about the failures" but that "like virtually all political autobiographies these days, it has the air of having been written by committee. ... It is not always possible to tell where Kennedy's voice ends and that of his capable collaborator, Ron Powers, begins." "The Washington Times" said that "Kennedy has produced a revelatory – though not tabloidesque – account of his storied life and career.
True Compass | Critical and commercial reception
His books were well received by critics who afforded him a title in circles which supported the official culture.
Joan Alcover | Biography
"He was at times overwhelmed by the burdens of the presidency, yet seemed to revel in the struggles and challenges it posed for him." Barry D. Karl, in "The American Historical Review", said that although "not designed and edited with a scholarly audience in mind," Ferrell's commentary was "lively, partisan, and generally helpful to those who do not know the period," and that the book "adds a great deal to our understanding of the personality of the man who succeeded the complex FDR." Conversely, University of Massachusetts professor Robert Griffith, writing in "Reviews in American History", called the book "highly disappointing" and that Ferrell's choice of which material to include ignored "sources that might suggest a darker side to Truman's personality and character."
Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman | Critical response
These more senior artists "adopted" the Normands, but their criticism was not always welcome. In her memoirs, Henrietta described the overbearing attitudes and conduct of some of the more senior artists.
Ernest Normand | Life and career
Following the release of Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency, Reagan biographers Craig Shirley, Steven Hayward, Paul Kengor, and Kiron Skinner, along with a handful of former Reagan aides, immediately began to challenge the book on its factual inaccuracies and historical fabrications. Those four Reagan biographers, who had written 19 biographies on Ronald Reagan among them, penned an op-ed for "The Washington Post" on October 16 that highlighted what they claimed to be major historical inaccuracies and outright fabrications used in O'Reilly's book. Additional criticisms surfaced from officials that served in the Reagan Administration, who were present at the events discussed in the book, yet dispute what actually happened.
Killing Reagan | Criticism
A writer can not endorse bloodshed". "But people like Rybakov are few and far between in our 'democratic' camp, and such people there are being disliked", Shokhina remarked.
Letter of Forty-Two | Criticism
It was termed "a masterpiece" by Conrad Black, one of his biographers. Black opined that "What was intended to be an unprecedented humiliation for any American president, Nixon converted into a virtual parliamentary acknowledgement of almost blameless insufficiency of legislative support to continue. He left while devoting half his address to a recitation of his accomplishments in office."
Richard Nixon | Resignation
Appraisal of Beattie's recent work has been mixed. Writing in "The New York Times", Michiko Kakutani called her novel "Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life" (2011) "preposterous," "narcissistic," and "self-indulgent"—the "sort of pretentious volume that makes people hate academics." In "The Washington Post", Book World Editor Marie Arana characterized it as "a bill of goods" devoid of "anything resembling a story line" that is "less about the eponymous Mrs. than about an endless parade of wordsmiths trotted out for show." The book "is not, except in the most perfunctory way, about Mrs. Nixon," Arana determined. "It's about Beattie." "[T]he book does not succeed," wrote William Deresiewicz in "The Nation".
Ann Beattie | Recent works
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973–1990 is a 1991 book by American historian Stephen Ambrose and the third part of a three-volume biography of President of the United States Richard Nixon. The series began with "" and continued with "". "Ruin and Recovery" details Nixon's fall from grace after his resounding 1972 reelection, including the Watergate scandal and his eventual resignation of the Presidency in 1974. It also describes Nixon's life after his presidency and the partial restoration of his reputation. Although many Nixon aides and associates cooperated with Ambrose, Nixon himself declined to be interviewed. Nixon told an interviewer that he did not read the book after publication either, labelling Ambrose as "just another left-wing historian".
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973–1990 | Introduction
Ultimately the book's authors were unable to find anyone who knew Smith during the 1950s who could corroborate any of the details in her allegations.
Michelle Remembers | Criticism
This line of criticism would not be fully explored until the 1970s with the rise of feminist literary criticism.
Reception history of Jane Austen | Criticism
Former First Lady Barbara Bush reflected, "I loved Pat Nixon, who was a sensational, gracious, and thoughtful First Lady", and at the dedication of the Reagan Library, Bush remembered, "There was one sad thing. Pat Nixon did not look well at all. Through her smile you could see that she was in great pain and having a terrible time getting air into her lungs." The Nixons moved to a gated complex in Park Ridge, New Jersey, in 1991. Pat's health was failing, and the house was smaller and contained an elevator. A heavy smoker most of her adult life who nevertheless never allowed herself to be seen with a cigarette in public, she eventually endured bouts of oral cancer, emphysema, and ultimately lung cancer, with which she was diagnosed in December 1992 while hospitalized with respiratory problems.
Pat Nixon | Later life
Courage and Hesitation: Notes and Photographs of the Nixon Administration is a 1971 non-fiction book by Allen Drury. It is an inside look at U. S. President Richard Nixon and those closest to him midway through his first term in office, with photographs by Fred J. Maroon.
Courage and Hesitation | Introduction
From the beginning, opinions have been divided on the character. Anne Isabella Milbanke gave a glowing review of the novel, while Mary Russell Mitford criticizes Elizabeth's lack of taste. The modern exegetes are torn between admiration for the vitality of the character and the disappointment of seeing Elizabeth intentionally suppress her verve and submit, at least outwardly, to male authority. In Susan Fraiman's essay "The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennett", the author criticises the fact that Elizabeth must forgo her development as a woman in order to ensure the success of "ties among men [such as her father and Darcy] with agendas of their own".
Elizabeth Bennet | Analysis
Crowley, while conceding that Kelley's books in particular her Sinatra biography, have revealed core truths not addressed by more sympathetic biographers, has also stated that her investigative methods are questionable, and many of the claims in her books have been falsified, as with her 1990 "People" magazine story about John F. Kennedy and organized crime boss Sam Giancana, and her Nancy Reagan biography. Similar criticism has been leveled at her by Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" and Joe Klein of "Time" magazine.
Kitty Kelley | Criticism
Besides his literary criticism (books, conference papers and critical essays), Kennedy also published poems and short stories.
Andrew Karpati Kennedy | Short fiction and memoirs
When it comes to the Clintons, there is not a single line of comparable acuity or detachment in the whole of "The Clinton Wars". What you get instead are passages that would have been regarded as above par but hardly fresh if they had appeared in a news magazine cover story ten years ago."
Sidney Blumenthal | Published works and memoirs
Biographers write an account of another person's life. Richard Ellmann (1918–1987), for example, was an eminent and award-winning biographer whose work focused on the Irish writers James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and Oscar Wilde. For the Wilde biography, he won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Writer | Biographer
This "most important historical effort of his career" was upset, however, when J. Fred Rippy and Herbert E. Putnam both published Poinsett biographies that year. While Chandler sharply criticized these books in the "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography", stressing that "neither can be considered a definitive and final biography", it did not prevent his own work from being rejected by Princeton's and Harvard's university presses. The manuscript was revised but never published. Following a switch to the Democratic Party in the 1920s, Chandler became a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, exchanging some personal letters with the president.
Charles Lyon Chandler | Later career
David H. Donald, noted biographer of Abraham Lincoln, relates that when he met John F. Kennedy in 1961, Kennedy voiced his deep dissatisfaction and resentment with historians who had rated some of his predecessors. Kennedy remarked, "No one has a right to grade a president — even poor James Buchanan — who has not sat in his chair, examined the mail and information that came across his desk, and learned why he made his decisions". Historian and political scientist Julian E. Zelizer has argued that traditional presidential rankings explain little concerning actual presidential history and that they are "weak mechanisms for evaluating what has taken place in the White House".
Historical rankings of presidents of the United States | Criticism and alternatives
Author J. C. Furnas regretted that "a Presidential year always makes Dooleyites feel frustrated. In 1960 we need Mr. Dooley to deal adequately with such things as public-opinion polls; Mr. Truman's opinion of primaries; the spring swarming of the Kennedys in Minnesota; [and] the problem [of] whether Mr. Nixon should invite Checkers back into the act". Writing again in 1991, Furnas suggested potential Dooley targets might include the Bork and Souter confirmation hearings, and the omnipresence of blue jeans; but that an impediment to a revival of interest in Dooley was the present-day view of dialect works as demeaning. English professor John W.
Mr. Dooley | Legacy and remembrance
Wills began his career as an early protégé of William F. Buckley Jr. and was associated with conservatism. When he first became involved with "National Review" he did not know if he was a conservative, calling himself a distributist. Later on, he was self-admittedly conservative, being regarded for a time as the "token conservative" for the "National Catholic Reporter" and writing a book entitled "Confessions of a Conservative". However, during the 1960s and 1970s, driven by his coverage of both civil rights and the anti-Vietnam War movements, Wills became increasingly liberal. His biography of president Richard M. Nixon, "Nixon Agonistes" (1970) landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.
Garry Wills | Politics
Historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony noted that ordinary citizens responded to, and identified with, Pat Nixon. When a group of people from a rural community visited the White House to present a quilt to the First Lady, many were overcome with nervousness; upon hearing their weeping, Pat hugged each individual tightly, and the tension dissipated. When a young boy doubted that the Executive Mansion was her house because he could not see her washing machine, Pat led him through the halls and up an elevator, into the family quarters and the laundry room. She mixed well with people of different races, and made no distinctions on that basis.
Pat Nixon | Public perception
The Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs was an organization founded to protest the release of "RN", the memoirs of former United States president Richard Nixon. A group of 19 people led by carpet cleaner Tom Flanigan and restaurateur Bill Boleyn gathered money and produced T-shirts, bumper stickers, and buttons with the slogan "Don't Buy Books By Crooks". The campaign's newspaper ads were turned down by the "New York Times" and the "Washington Post", but they did get media attention, including their shirt being seen on "Saturday Night Live". During the controversy over the publication, the "New York Times", who themselves had paid to publish excerpts of the memoirs, published an editorial stating that they favoured letting the "marketplace decide the issue", stating that the newspaper was against "blacklists of any sort."
Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs | Introduction
His reporting got him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. He died of emphysema in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Richard Rovere | Biography
The book received generally positive reviews from critics. David Browne in "Entertainment Weekly" gave the book A rating and wrote: "Most pop-music autobiographies are random notes; it's easy to believe David Crosby and Dion inhaled heavily simply because their memories are so vague. Faithfull, on the other hand, can recall most of the faces and places involved with her sundry rises and drug-sodden crashes of the last three decades." He also added that "it may be the most honest rock memoir yet published". Paul Jones from "The Independent" was critical. He wrote: "This is not an entertaining read. In fact, it's a while since I enjoyed a book as little as this one.
Faithfull: An Autobiography | Critical response
Jack Nelson of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that Nixon's speech "chose to look ahead," rather than focus on his term. This attribute of the speech coincides with John Poulakos's definition of sophistical rhetoric in "Towards a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric", because Nixon met the criterion of "[seeking] to capture what was possible" instead of reflecting on his term. In the British paper "The Times" the article "Mr. Nixon resigns as President; On this day" by Fred Emery took a more negative stance on the speech, characterizing Nixon's apology as "cursory" and attacking Nixon's definition of what it meant to serve a full presidential term.
Richard Nixon's resignation speech | Critical reaction and analysis
The press and public followed Grant's symptoms throughout his final year, and his work on the book was well known. While interest in his memoirs would have been high had Grant not been ill, his struggle to finish it before his death gave it even more attention. On release, the book received universal critical praise. Twain compared the "Memoirs" to Julius Caesar's "Commentaries". Matthew Arnold praised Grant and his book in an 1886 essay. Twain, however, felt Arnold's tone was condescending to both Grant and the United States, and the two authors feuded until Arnold's death in 1888. Gertrude Stein also admired the book, saying she could not think of Grant without weeping.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant | Legacy
Several years after the historian's death, "Publishers Weekly" remarked, Earlier in his life, Steiner had been a caustic critic of U.S. President Richard Nixon, arguing that the administration had sold out national interests in the West to private efforts by corporations.
Stan Steiner | Viewpoints
At 1,008 pages, the memoir was chided for its length, with comedian Jon Stewart joking, "I have to confess, I did not finish the entire book; I'm on ... page 12,000." President George W. Bush joked that it was "10,000 pages long." In 2007 Teletext carried out a survey of British readers, the results of which revealed that of the respondents who had purchased or borrowed "My Life", 30 percent had either not read it, or had begun to read it but had not finished it. Clinton's former advisor Dick Morris wrote a rebuttal named "Because He Could" (2004), criticizing "My Life." In his own book, Morris presented what he believed to be factual inaccuracies of different events Clinton depicted in "My Life."
My Life (Clinton autobiography) | Reaction
The question is one of proportionality: Did an Army general (who is now, as it happens, in the President's Cabinet) go too far?"
Barry McCaffrey | Seymour Hersh's allegations