Gerry Adams' Hagiography?

Just finished reading Gerry Adams' autobiography (or "autohagiography", to coin a word) and, guess what, I hated it. Its written in pastiche Angela's Ashes speak, a few swipes at trying to describe what it was like growing up in the Catholic/Nationalist slum know as "Ballymurphy",but, and this struck me from the beginning, the book is principally about Gerry Adams, not Ballmurphy or Divis Block or Anderstown. 
I would liked to have know what it was was like to feel the Belfast Winter in a dilapidated public housing complex without sanitation, without adequate heating and with black mould encrusted onto the walls, but, while we get a few heavily controlled glimpses at the injustice and the hardship, the book's raison d'etre is managing and controlling the Republican establishment's version of the so called "troubles". 

There is however one memorable highlight. A story about Adam's efforts to organise a cross-community support for traffic lights at a busy road junction, which happened to straddle two warring estates. However, Gerry's first attempt at community reconciliation was doomed, on came a Paisleyite bigot, who I imagine was high on Jesus, Empire, Queen and other amphetamines, and I imagine told his Protestant brethren what the Bible says about upstart Micks who try and pressure the council to build traffic lights, and foiled Gerry's little microcosm of a United Belfast. The moral of the story is this, no matter how despicable Adam's is, and he probably has done some pretty despicable things, we must never loose sight of his historical context. It was interesting to read Adam's hagiography after Ed Maloney's stunning and bleak "The Secret History of the IRA". 

Two of Maloney's allegations in particular are difficult to reconcile with the image of the wholesome, avuncular, redeemed man Adam's preposterous book strives to project. 1. Adams organised the botched bombing campaign called "Bloody Friday" from his cell in Long Kesh (a tragic landmark in the war) and was actively involved in the remodelling of the IRA in the 1970s, away from the old British batallion system, in favour of the cellular structure favoured by Gurrilla groups on the Continent. 2. Jean McConville, a single mother of ten living in the Divis flat complex, was hired by the British authorities to spy on the Provisional IRA. For this sin, the IRA killed her and dumped her body in Carlingford Lough. As far as I am aware Maloney's main source is former IRA volunteer Brendan Hughes, who always struck me (along with Bobby Sands) as one of the more sane and introspective of these admittedly highly brutalised men. Hughes alleges Adam's organised this particularly grisly, evil exercise in counter-intelligence, and gave him the order to kill Jean McConville. Hughes, incidentally, (as far as I remember) agreed the impoverished mother of ten should have been killed, but disagreed with the highly disrespectful manner her body was disposed.