Which reminds me, willow...the book may well "misrepresent" reality. 

All autobiographies do, to some extent.  Because they are written by people who were IN the history they write about, or, in some instances, WERE the history they write about. Memories are short and they are selective.  Some selectivity is unconscious (that's bad) some is deliberate (that's worse.) Sometimes, nobody knows for sure. 

I like what Winston Churchill said about his multi-volume History of WW II: "This is not history; this is my case."

So, given all that, Ms. Wente's column is extremely valid.