“I am confident in the accounts I presented, which came from a variety of first-hand participants; but [General Eric] Shinseki, who could have had a lucrative career on the talk show/lecture circuit giving 'I told you so' presentations, has not indulged that taste at all.”
"The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquotedcatchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century...
"Scholars are divided as to why [Mark] Twain wanted the first-hand account of his life kept under wraps for so long. Some believe it was because he wanted to talk freely about issues such as religion and politics. Others argue that the time lag prevented him from having to worry about offending friends."
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