Volume 30, Number 11 · June 30, 1983
Bradley's Class
By Gordon A. Craig
A General's Life: An Autobiography
by Omar N. Bradley, by Clay Blair
Simon and Schuster, 752 pp., $19.95
The publishers of A General's Life apparently agree with Humpty Dumpty. The title page describes the book as an autobiography but then contradicts itself by telling us that it is by two people. As it turns out, it is an autobiography of neither, for General Bradley wrote no part of it and, indeed, saw only the first 113 pages, and Clay Blair, who did write it, talks about himself only in the 'collaborator's foreword.' What we have here is a biography that has been written to sound like an autobiography.
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