memoirs

He published interesting, but not that truthfully ghost-written memoirs (he does not mention that he killed several islanders).

Similarly, in the aftermath of the Second World War there was a large number of exculpatory memoirs by German generals.

Omar Bongo was hand-chosen by De Gaulle (cf Foccart's memoirs) and trained and educated in France.

According to Gene Kranz in his memoirs, the white team had been fed a program alarm during a pre-flight simulation.

Asimov himself was even aware of some of his weaknesses as a writer and talked about them occasionally in his memoirs and such.

Alternatively, you can read their memoirs, which are even easier to find.

Bush wrote in his memoirs about how advanced interrogation wasn't really torture.

If you read Lee Kuan-yew's memoirs, you'll see the lengths to which the Singaporean government went to kowtow to Western (and later, Japanese) multinationals.

In the 1990s, when he wrote his memoirs admitting as much, anyone who was anyone in the Beltway attended the celebratory launch of his book.

If you know ahead of time, record some memoirs and thoughts.

Without a doubt, this book was one of the most moving memoirs I've ever read.

If you roll the dice and you live, you're a genius and in a few years you get to write your memoirs as the next Thoreau.

Memoirs, personal files, government files: people are willing to say more, as it would come at no cost to them.