May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
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Nationality: British Type: Journalist Born: May 25, 1957 |
And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

