Our Favorite Memoirs
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hope for the best. |
| 0:07.0 | the worst. |
| 0:09.0 | Expect the worst. |
| 0:11.0 | Some bring champagne, some die of furs. |
| 0:14.0 | A first. |
| 0:15.0 | No way of knowing which way it's going. |
| 0:19.0 | Hope for the best expect the worst. |
| 0:22.0 | Well, Welcome to the special edition of the Commentary magazine Daily Podcast. I am John. It's the editor of Commentary and we are doing some special shows as we are on break. |
| 0:37.0 | Taping them early. Today's show will be dedicated to our favorite memoirs. |
| 0:44.1 | And by our, I mean Executive Editor A Greenwald. |
| 0:47.4 | Hi Abe, |
| 0:48.2 | Hi, John. |
| 0:49.0 | Media Commentary Columnist Christine, |
| 0:50.9 | Hi, Christine. |
| 0:51.9 | Hi, John. |
| 0:52.8 | And Washington commentary columnist Matthew Cottonetti, |
| 0:55.6 | hi Matt. |
| 0:56.2 | Hi, John. |
| 0:57.6 | So the memoir, as old as time itself, almost. I I mean I don't know what the first great |
| 1:06.1 | memoir was maybe Augustine's confessions so that would have been fifth century, |
| 1:14.0 | C.E. something like that. |
| 1:17.0 | But obviously, the craze of the last 20 years |
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