Volume 50, Number 10 · June 12, 2003
An American Family
By Russell Baker
Memoirs
by David Rockefeller
Random House, 517 pp., $35.00
David Rockefeller has good reasons to leave memoir-writing to others. He has been a successful banker, turned down presidents who wanted him to be secretary of the Treasury, met a mind-numbing horde of celebrated people, been happily married, is gloriously rich, and is now well into his eighties. At this age trying to master the literary craft must feel like heavy lifting, but, not content with so many blessings, he has written a memoir anyhow.
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