Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.

From the 17th century onwards, " scandalous memoirs " by supposed libertines, serving a public taste for titillation, have been frequently published.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Julie Manet became the subject for many of her mother's paintings and a book of her memoirs Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet, was published in 1987.

Babur wrote his memoirs and these form the main source for details of his life.

In her own memoirs, Olga Ivinskaya blames herself for pressuring her lover into making both decisions.

Shortly after the publication of his memoirs, Chaplin began work on what would be his final completed film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), based on a script he had written for Paulette Goddard in the 1930s.

He had cause for alarm, because as Anastas Mikoyan noted in his memoirs, Stalin strived to prevent as many pro-Trotsky officials as possible being elected as congress delegates.

Although Hoover is regularly criticized for his laissez-faire approach to the Depression, in his memoirs, Hoover claims that he rejected Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's suggested " leave-it-alone " approach, and called many business leaders to Washington to urge them not to lay off workers or cut wages.

Robert Lochner claimed in his memoirs that Kennedy had asked him for a translation of " I am a Berliner ", and that they practiced the phrase in Brandt's office.

According to a new edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, Severn fathered an illegitimate child named Henry ( b. 31 Aug 1819 ) about a year before leaving England for Italy.

A faithful Muslim, as evidenced by his memoirs, he expressed his gratitude to Allah for his many victories.

" The trigger for Guru Arjun's execution was his support for Jahangir's rebel son Khusrau Mirza, yet it is clear from Jahangir's own memoirs that he disliked Guru Arjun before then: " many times it occurred to me to put a stop to this vain affair or bring him into the assembly of the people of Islam.

The origin of Justin's use the name " memoirs of the apostles " as a synonym for the gospels is uncertain.

103: 5-6 ) of Jesus, which are believed to have originated from the Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus, illustrate the use of gospel narratives and sayings of Jesus in a testimony source and how Justin has adopted these " memoirs of the apostles " for his own purposes.

As Nikolai Ryzhkov describes it in his memoirs, " every Thursday morning he ( Mikhail Gorbachev ) would sit in his office like a little orphan – I would often be present at this sad procedure – nervously awaiting a telephone call from the sick Chernenko: Would he come to the Politburo himself or would he ask Gorbachev to stand in for him this time again?

He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.

According to Nancy Reagan in her memoirs published in 1989, Reagan disclosed to his parents in 1987 a very painful incident in his boyhood that he had kept secret for many years.

The author used the title A Moveable Feast for his late-life memoirs of his early life as a struggling writer in Paris in the 1920s.

In his 1988 memoirs, Regan wrote about Nancy's consultations with the astrologer, the first public mention of them, which resulted in embarrassment for the First Lady.

He continued his feud with Wilhelm II by attacking him in his memoirs and by publishing the text of the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia, a breach of national security for which any individual of lesser status would have been prosecuted.

Former prime ministers also commonly penned autobiographies — Tupper, for example — or published their memoirs — such as Diefenbaker and Paul Martin.

He is working on two versions of his memoirs, one for immediate release, and another detailing his career at CIA, to be published posthumously.

160 ), sometimes refers to written sources consisting of narratives of the life of Jesus and quotations of the sayings of Jesus as " memoirs of the apostles " ( Greek: ἀπομνημονεύματα τῶν ἀποστόλων ; transliteration: apomnêmoneúmata tôn apostólôn ) and less frequently as gospels ( Greek: εὐαγγέλιον ; transliteration: euangélion ) which, Justin says, were read every Sunday in the church at Rome ( 1 Apol.

In his memoirs, I Commentarii, the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti mentions Lorenzetti ’ s interest in an antique statue uncovered during an excavation in Siena at the time, attributed to the Greek sculptor, Lysippus.

The fighters for the Greek cause labelled themselves Makedonomachoi ( Μακεδονομάχοι-Macedonian Fighters ) and were portrayed by Greek writer Penelope Delta in her novel Τά μυστικά τοῦ Βάλτου ( Ta Mystiká tou Váltou-The Secrets of the Swamp ), as well as in the book of memoirs Ὁ Μακεδονικός Ἀγών ( The Macedonian Struggle ) by Germanos Karavangelis, while on the other side, the fighters of IMRO and their activities are depicted in the book Confessions of a Macedonian Bandit: A Californian in the Balkan Wars, written by Albert Sonnichsen, an American volunteer in the IMRO during the Macedonian Struggle.

More recently, references are found in the memoirs of several warriors who fought during the Greek War of Independence ( 1821 ).

Emperor John VI Cantacuzenus, a big supporter of Greek education, in his own memoirs always refers to the Byzantines as " Romans ", yet, in a letter sent by the sultan of Egypt, Nasser Hassan Ben Mohamed, referred to him as " Emperor of the Hellenes, Bulgars, Sassanians, Vlachs, Russians, Alanians " but not of the " Romans ".

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Elsewhere he has insisted: With regard to the 1930s, he has written that Gina Herrmann, in her 2010 study of Spanish communists ' memoirs, claimed that " of the many myths that Western Communists lived by, perhaps the most abiding is that of Communist anti-Fascism of the 1930s and 1940s — one that was consolidated in Spain's Civil War of 1936 – 1939.

Indeed, evidence suggests that Rosales was very nearly shot as well for helping García Lorca by the Civil Governor Valdes. The Basque Communist poet Gabriel Celaya wrote in his memoirs that he once found García Lorca in the company of Falangist José Maria Aizpurua.

" Beginning in the 1870s, many Civil War generals published memoirs, justifying their decisions or refighting old battles, but Thomas, who died in 1870, did not publish his own memoirs.

After the Civil War, he wrote extensive memoirs and analyses of the conflict, which have received much praise for their insight and objectivity.

Many historians regard Alexander's memoirs as one of the most objective and sharpest sources produced by a Civil War combatant.

A practicing attorney, he published two memoirs related to the Civil War years, as well as a book on Texas prior to its annexation, and a postwar book on the legal profession and courts in the South.

A large cast of actors voiced correspondence, memoirs, news articles, and stood in for historical figures from the Civil War.

It has been suggested by some critics and his daughters in their memoirs that his support for Francisco Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War has caused him to be labelled politically incorrect and blacklisted from modern poetry anthologies.

He advocated the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and wrote a book of memoirs before his sudden death in August 1919.

This version of the story was related by Albert Speer in his memoirs, who stated that the " mission " to Spain was an elaborate practical joke, concocted by Hitler and Goebbels, designed to punish Hanfstaengl after he'd displeased the Führer by making " adverse comments about the fighting spirit of the German soldiers in combat " in the Spanish Civil War.

He is the author of three books of memoirs, Sweet Killough: Let Go Your Anchor ; Black Puddings with Slim: A Downpatrick Boyhood ; and Minority Verdict: Experiences Of A Catholic Civil Servant.

Her memoirs have been important sources for historians doing research on southern society during and after the Civil War.

After the war, Richard Taylor wrote his memoirs, Destruction and Reconstruction, which is one of the most credited reports of the Civil War.

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Three years later, Evans authored the Military History of Georgia, heavily based upon his Civil War memoirs.

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