Usually when you agree to write a f...

Usually when you agree to write a foreword. you do in such a manner because you truly care about the book: it's readable, the literary quality is high, you like or at least admire the author. This work however, is the of the highest opposite.

Primo Levi, Foreword to Rudolf Hoess's "My Soul"

Great autobiographers have generally been heroes, personalities whose memoirs are justified by way of exemplary lives. To be certain the stories these exemplary Figures relate are not without taint. Augustine, Rousseau, and Mary McCarthy, for example, all implicate themselves in theft, and thereby point out to ...