cover image Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties

Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties

Richard N. Goodwin. HarperCollins Publishers, $13 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097241-7

``Billed as a sweeping personal retrospective of the 1960s, and coming with high praise from luminaries, this is essentially a speechwriter's memoir that functions best as high-level insider's gossip,'' maintained PW , calling this ``self-congratulatory'' and ``rhetorically high-flown.'' The book caused a stir in hardcover with its portrayal of LBJ as paranoid and out of touch with reality. $25,000 ad/promo . (Sept.)