According to the NY Times, Blair’s memoir – despite its rough reception in Ireland – is doing very well indeed. Details: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/world/europe/09blair.html?_r=1
Month: September 2010
Tony Blair’s memoirs: filed under crime fiction
Always something fun to talk about in the world of memoirs! Tony Blair’s memoir, A Journey, is causing all sorts of fuss and fuming in Britain and beyond. Check out this link for more details: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/05/tony-blair-memoirs-facebook-g
Journalist Gwynne Dyer has a few choice words of his own about Blair’s memoir and his seeming attempt to re-write larger history as well as his own: http://www.straight.com/article-344685/vancouver/gwynne-dyer-tony-blair-and-great-islamic-threat#comments_here
Sometimes the idea that My Version is Truth, just doesn’t work out for memoirists….too many long(er) memories and dissenting opinions.