What allows a political memoir to stand the test of time?

This is no more surprising than the next political memoir.

It is one of four recent political memoirs to sell more than two million copies.

Wit and learning are ingredients for an unusual political memoir.

But that was before the era of the kiss-and-tell political memoir.

This does not mean that a political memoir need be a dry account of statecraft.

A political memoir, combined with economic analysis, by a secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration.

King left no published political memoirs, although his private diaries were extensively detailed.

A political memoir by a journalist who served as a senior adviser to President Clinton.