Memoir, Bush, George, delivers, engrossing, unexpectedly

George W. Bush delivers an unexpectedly engrossing memoir

By TIM RUTTEN LOS ANGELES TIMES The first great American autobiographies both appeared in the 19th century, were born of conflict, and written by public men -- The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass and The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant . Since then, what we might call the publishing-industrial complex has turned the reminiscences of our public men and women into a never-ending stream ...

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Presidential Memoirs Are Rarely 'Reflective,' Historian Says

President George W. Bush's book is out, and it's a straight-forward account of what he was thinking at key moments. But, says historian George Edwards, such memoirs are usually "a bit boring" and don't offer many new insights.

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