But Miller's tale is as notable for what it isn't as for what it is. It is not a hiss-and-tell attempt to settle scores and mold history like Donald Regan's For the Record, a spin-doctored account of his time as President Reagan's chief of staff.
1996, Ann Gerhart & Annie Groer, "The Reliable Source", The Washington Post, 10 October 1996:
The former hubby of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's third -- and current -- wife is penning a hiss-and-tell book about their six-year union.
Maybe that's what this hiss-and-tell book is all about, therapy for McEnroe's battered psyche, a nightmare marriage, a splendid career best remembered for screeching on-court tantrums.
There are songs about "imma yekara li" ("My dear mother" - sentimental fare, not the same thing at all as the Crawford hiss-and-tell movie and book "Mommie Dearest").
That old tease Peter Mandelson knew what he was doing when he promised that his forthcoming hiss and tell memoir would delve into the "soap opera" that was New Labour.