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Original Title:	Memory Hold-the-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan
ISBN:	0460022644 (ISBN13: 9780460022644)
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Memory Hold-the-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan

John Buchan

Hardcover | Pages: 130 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 87 Users | 13 Reviews

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Title	:	Memory Hold-the-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan
Author	:	John Buchan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 130 pages
Published	:	Favorite Books of John F. Kennedy 18 books — 5 voters
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. History

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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) completed his autobiography not long before his death. A highly accomplished man, his was a life of note. Although now known by many chiefly as an author, he was also an historian, Unionist politican and Governor General of Canada. Although he stated that it was not strictly an autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door provides a reflective, personal account of his childhood in Scotland, his literary work from his time at Oxford University to the famous Hannay and Leithen stories and his extensive public service in South Africa, Scotland, France in the Great War, and Canada. Of great interest are his accounts of key contemporary figures, including Lord Grey, Lord Haldane, Earl Balfour, Lord Haig, T.E. Lawrence and King George V.

Known in the United States as Pilgrim's Way, Memory Hold-the-Door was reportedly one of the favourite books of John F. Kennedy.

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Beautifully written reminiscences with fascinating sidelights on history. I'd no idea that Buchan had been an assistant to Lord Milner during the Boer War. Or that he'd been a co-owner of the publisher Nelson. And the people he knew! Apparently this book was a favourite of JFK's. I can see why.

Memoirs come in a couple of different flavors. One of the most popular is the score-settling of which Hemingway's Moveable Feast is a prime example.This one is really the total opposite, which makes it pretty boring. Not just because Buchan is complimenting famous people, but he is complimenting famous people whose relevance is a bit obscure. If you uncle from New Mexico told you about how great his high school classmates were, the connection between you (the reader) and the story would be a



I picked this up after reading that John F. Kennedy considered it one of his favorite books and after finishing it I can see why. John Buchan, who held the awesomely P.G. Wodehouse-esque peerage of 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a pioneering Scottish crime fiction author who became Governor General of Canada back in 1935 when it was necessary to import bored British aristocrats for the position instead of bored local personalities. This is his memoir, and I took away two main things from it. First,

John Buchan's lyrical writing has extended to his autobiography. A very insightful book, which only touches on his personal life but mostly talks about his public life. Unfortunately he inherited his father's abilities to preach (he was the son of a minister) and fairly often he preaches his views, and a hundred years later, some are proven to be more accurate than others. An enjoyable book.

First published in 1940, 'Memory Hold-The-Door' is the autobiography of the writer John Buchan, and was completed shortly before his death in early 1940. This covers his school life and his university life, before touching on his career in law, writing and politics amongst others. He seems to spend a lot of text delivering eulogies on friends from school and university who were lost in the Great War or just after. This is not such a bad thing, as he new a lot of famous people and so his opinion

Kennedy favorite.