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The Arizona Republican, who has said he's so offended by some programs on cable that he thinks parents should be allowed to choose, à la carte, the cable networks that come into their homes, appeared to plug the A&E flick based on his autobiography, "Faith of My Fathers," and to say how proud he is that it's running on A&E.

WASHINGTON — The biracial daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond more than once confronted her father over his racist politics, but cherished their relationship and ignored pleas from her family that she expose her parentage. "For all his bluster, for all his racist campaign posturing, I somehow couldn't dislike him the way I wanted to," writes Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 79, in "Dear Senator," an autobiography to be released next month. The daughter of the longtime champion of segregation and his family's black maid has refrained from speaking publicly since she revealed the secret of her birth. That was a...

Blowing in the Wind September 30, 2004 By David Asman As a creature of the '60s, I spent my early teens listening to and appreciating Bob Dylan (search). At first, his rebellious nature caught my interest. But what appealed to me more was that his sharp edge cut not just through the hypocrisies of middle-class culture, but also through the phoniness of the '60s counter-culture. He did not suffer fools lightly, no matter what their affiliation, as you can see from the brilliant film biography of him called "Don’t Look Back." He smacked down softheaded hippies as eagerly as he...

Ashlee Simpson starts the journey to emerge from out of the shadows cast by her elder sibling. Jessica. Jessica Simpson's has a hit reality TV show, multimillion-selling recording career an almost over marketed persona but now younger sister Ashlee releases her rock album "Autobiography." The album looks set to top the U.S. pop albums chart when sales data are issued later this week

Reading Between the Lines "Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (Simon and Schuster, 2003), 562 pages, $28" Fall 2003 by George Liebmann This campaign autobiography is Mrs. Clinton’s effort to establish that she knows “how Congress really works” and that she “developed relationships with foreign leaders.” In her acknowledgments, buried at the rear of the book, she thanks three associates for “spending two years of their lives working with me”; two lawyers, not part of the average author’s equipage, who “provid[ed] wise and practical counsel;” and three hundred other persons. This is not a work which will go on the shelf...

TO HIS enemies in the West, he is an evil dictator, the butcher of Baghdad, but by his own account he is the poor shepherd boy, beloved of his mother, who made the best of himself against all the odds. This is Saddam Hussein in his own words, revealed in Men and a City, the Iraqi president’s new autobiography detailing the struggles of his early life. The daily grind of out-facing the US and British forces who are closing in on him, of repressing the Kurds and the marsh Arabs, and of giving United Nations weapons inspectors the run around,...

Clinton is eager to tell his story Says writing memoirs is a way to 'come to terms' By Bob Minzesheimer USA TODAY Bill Clinton, who's getting nearly $12 million for his memoirs, says everyone eventually should write his or her life story. ''Everybody talks about how terrible this book-writing is. I've enjoyed it,'' the former president tells C-SPAN in an interview to be shown Sunday (6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ET/ 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. PT). ''Everyone who is fortunate enough to have lived to be 50 should sit down at some point and write the story of his...