Political memoir : essays on the politics of memory / edited by George Egerton
1994, First Edition. London, England ; Portland, Or. : F. Cass. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #394760
ISBN: 0714634719
Physical description; xix, 351 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Papers presented at the Conference on Political Memoirs, held at the University of British Columbia, Sept. 22-24, 1989. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents; Introduction / George Egerton -- The politics of memory : form and function in the history of political memoir from antiquity to modernity / George Egerton -- Bismarck's Gedanken und Erinnerungen / Otto Pflanze -- Partial recall : political memoirs and biography from the third French Republic / Robert Young -- Indian nationalist voices : autobiography and the process of return / Milton Israel -- Japanese nikki as political memoirs / Joshua Mostow -- "Let us now praise famous men" : political memoirs and biography in Canada / Robert Bothwell -- Rulers of the waves : British naval memoirs / Barry Gough -- The relativity of war : British military memoirs from the campaigns of Marlborough to the First World War / Tim Travers -- The diplomatic life : reflections on selected British diplomatic memoirs written before and after the Great war / Zara Steiner -- Shield of memory : memoirs of the British foreign policy-making elite, 1919-39 / B.J.C. McKercher -- "Married to affairs of state" : memoirs of the wives and daughters of British diplomats / Valerie Cromwell -- The published political memoirs of leading Nazis, 1933-1945 / Leonidas E. Hill -- Trials and tribulations : the making of the Diefenbaker and Pearson memoirs / John A. Munro -- Harry S. Truman : the writing of his memoirs / Francis H. Heller -- Truman : on and off the record / Robert H. Ferrell -- Nixon and his memoirs / Stephen Ambrose -- Political biography and memoir in totalitarian eastern Europe / János Bak -- Struggle in the spy house : memoirs of US intelligence / Wesley K. Wark -- British memoirs and official secrecy : from Crossman to Thatcher / John F. Naylor -- The anatomy of political memoir : findings and conclusions / George Egerton. Subjects; Schlichter, Rudolf 1890-1955. Autobiographie Congrès. Altpreussische Heer. Teil VIII Historiographie Congrès. CONFERENCE. Political memoirs. Politics and literature ; Congresses.
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