Booklist articles from April 2002

Booklist archives from April 2002

The Russia Hand: a Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Talbott, Strobe. The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy. June 2002. 480p. illus. index. Random, $29.95 (0-375-50714-0). 327.73047. This fascinating insider's account of U.S.-Russian diplomatic relations during the Clinton...

Master of the Senate: the Years of Lyndon Johnson.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Caro, Robert A. Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Apr. 2002. 1, 152p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (0-394-52836-0). 973.9 The obvious question about the third volume in Caro's dynamic, definitive biography of LBJ, following...

Fire Lover.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Wambaugh, Joseph. Fire Lover. May 2002. 352p. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-009527-X). 364.16 Former LAPD detective sergeant and best-selling author Wambaugh, author of the classic true crime story The Onion Field (1973), returns to nonfiction with...

Fire Ice.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Cussler, Clive and Kemprecos, Paul. Fire Ice. June 2002. 448p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-14872-8). Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Special Assignments Team and Marine protagonist-hero of Serpent (1999) and...

Thieves' Paradise.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Dickey, Eric Jerome. Thieves' Paradise. May 2002. 320p. Dutton, $19.95 (0-525-94663-2). Dante is a 25-year-old casualty of the dotcom layoffs, tortured by flashbacks of his youth with an abusive father and compliant mother. Jackson,...

Inez.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Fuentes, Carlos. Inez. Tr. by Margaret Sayers Peden. May 2002. 112p. Farrar, $16 (0-374-17553-5). There's no questioning the influence of distinguished Mexican writer Fuentes, from his popular novel The Old Gringo (1985) to the powerful...

Sin Killer.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... McMurtry, Larry. Sin Killer. May 2002. 304p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-3302-6). The Great Western Novel is alive and well, thanks in no small part to McMurtry, who here embarks on the first of four tales of the Berrybender family. It's...

The Emperor of Ocean Park.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Carter, Stephen L. The Emperor of Ocean Park. June 2002. 672p. Knopf, $26.95 (0-375-41363-4). Freed from the constraints of nonfiction, Yale law professor Carter offers scathing social commentary in his first novel. This suspenseful tale...

Mortal Prey.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Sandford, John. Mortal Prey. May 2002. 368p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-14863-9). Minneapolis Deputy Police Commissioner Lucas Davenport is preparing for the next stage of his life. He's finally set a wedding date with his soul mate, Weather....

Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Gooch, Brad. Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America. Apr. 2002. 400p. index. Knopf, $25 (0-679-44709-1). 200. Gooch is a sophisticated spiritual tourist, and this travelogue is an engaging account of a journey driven, as he tells one person...

The Next Christendom: the Coming of Global Christianity.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Religion Christianity. Apr. 2002. 304p. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19-514616-6). 270.8. Fear of Islam is peaking, fueled by reports that the religion is burgeoning in numbers as well...

Through the Rose Window: Art, Myth, and the Religious Imagination.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hayward, John F. Through the Rose Window: Art, Myth, and the Religious Imagination. Apr. 2002. 160p. Skinner House; dist. by International Publishers Marketing, $18 (1-55896-428-2). 230. The title of this collection of eight sermons, three...

Jihad: the Trail of Political Islam.
April 1, 2002... Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political, Islam. Apr. 2002. 416p. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-00877-4). 297.7. We hear more about Muslim extremists than ever before, but Kepel argues that the terrorism seen today throughout the world results...

The Manley arts: too good.(The Lord of the Ring series and The Fellowship of the Ring motion picture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Several years ago, in the midst of a literary midlife crisis, I asked the readers of B00klist to send me the titles of five books that they felt everyone should read before they died. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that J. R. R....

The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Leloup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Tr. by Joseph Rowe. 2002. 192p. illus. Inner Traditions, paper, $14.95 (0-89281-911-1). 229. Interest in Mary Magdalene, the quasi-legendary woman of the Gospels who stood in an ambiguous...

Faith beyond Faith Healing: Finding Hope after Shattered Dreams.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Winston, Kimberly. Faith beyond Faith Healing: Finding Hope after Shattered Dreams. Apr. 2002. 150p. Paraclete, paper, $12.95 (1-55725-299-8). 234. Faith is easy when everything is going our way, but when suffering and an overwhelming...

The Force of a Feather: the Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Demaratus, DeEtta. The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom. Apr. 2002. 240p. illus. Univ. of Utah, $27.95 (0-87480-714-X). 306.6 In the 1850s, lohn Smith, a failed Mississippi farmer, took his...

Living Proof: a Medical Mutiny.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Gearin-Tosh, Michael. Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny. Apr. 2002. 336p. Scribner, $22 (0-7432-2517-1). 362.1. Gearin-Tosh's story of cancer and his choice of treatment for it (which is where the mutiny comes in) engages us with his and his...

From Hardtack to Homefries: an Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals.
April 1, 2002... Haber, Barbara. From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals. Apr. 2002, 288p. illus. index. Free Press, $25 (0-684-84217-3). 394.1. Haber's wonderfully readable, intelligent, and eclectic history of cooking...

One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change Our World.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hill, Julia Butterfly. One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change Our World. Apr. 2002. 194p. HarperSanFrancisco, paper, $14.95 (0-06-251756-2). 333.7. An inspiration to many in the environmental movement following her...

Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Jones, Gerard. Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence. Apr. 2002. 288p. index. Basic, $25 (0-465-03695-3). 303.6. Jones, a former comics writer and the author of The Comic Book Heroes (1996),...

A Mind at a Time.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Levine, Mel. A Mind at a Time. Apr. 2002. 352p. index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-0222-8). 370.15. Levine, a pediatrician with 30 years of experience, offers a straightforward look at why some children struggle with learning and...

A Working Stiff's Manifesto.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Levison, Iain. A Working Stiff's Manifesto. Apr. 2002. 176p. Soho; dist. by Farrar, $20 (1-56947-280-7). 305.5. Ten years after getting army experience and an English degree, Levison had 42 jobs behind him and an insightful tale to tell...

Climbing Parnassus: a New Apologia for Greek and Latin.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Simmons, Tracy Lee. Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin. Apr. 2002. 290p. ISI, $24.95 (1-882926-73-0). 480. The old-fashioned term grammar school originally designated a school that taught the classical curriculum of...

Heaven on Earth: the Rise and Fall of Socialism.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Muravchik, Joshua. Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. Apr. 2002. 400p. index. Encounter, 665 Third St., Ste. 330, San Francisco, CA 94107, $27.95 (1-893554-45-7). 335. Just a few generations ago, socialism was regarded as the...

Hidden Secrets: a Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Owen, David. Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It. May 2002. 224p. illus. index. Firefly, $35 (1-55297-565-7); paper, $24.95 (1-55297-564-9). 327.12. This is a compelling overview of the...

The Poet and the Murderer: a True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Worrall, Simon. The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery. May 2002. 288p. Dutton, $23.95 (0-525-94596-2). 364.15. When a writer can make the formation of letters in handwriting an act of...

What Zizi Gave Honeyboy.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Celente, Gerald. What Zizi Gave Honeyboy. Apr. 2002. 224p. Morrow, $23.95 (0-06-621266-9). 305.85. Celente, a top trends analyst featured in newspapers and on TV, was going through a painful divorce. Zizi, his 80-year-old aunt, had just...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: a Leadership Fable.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Lencioni, Patrick. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Apr. 2002. 224p. Jossey-Bass, $22 (0-7879-6075-6). 658.4. The final installment in a trilogy that includes The Five Temptations of a CEO (1998) and The Four Obsessions...

Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions and Healing.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Bekoff, Marc. Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions and Healing. Apr. 2002. 240p. illus. index. Oxford, $27.50 (0-19-515077-5). 591.5. Bekoff is an ethologist: a scientist who studies animal behavior. In this new look at the consciousness of...

The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War against the World's Most Famous Scientist.
April 1, 2002... Jerome, Fred. The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War against the World's Most Famous Scientist. May 2002. 384p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-28856-5). 530.092. Science journalist Jerome uses information from Einstein's...

The Biggest Bangs.
April 1, 2002... Katz, Jonathan I. The Biggest Bangs. June 2002. 256p. illus. Oxford, $28 (0-19-514570-4). 522. A member of the exotic astrophysical zoo discovered in the 1960s, gamma-ray bursts were not as easily measured or explained as quasars and...

A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape.
April 1, 2002... Mares, Michael A. A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape. Apr. 2002. 320p. illus. index. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-00747-6). 599.1754. The word desert, from the Latin deserare ("abandoned"), evokes a hot, dry wasteland. This view...

The Big Questions: Probing the Promise and Limits of Science.
April 1, 2002... Morris, Richard. The Big Questions: Probing the Promise and Limits of Science. June 2002. 288p. index. Holt/Times, $26 (0-8050-7092-3). 616.8. With a levelheaded style and concise diction, acclaimed science writer and physicist Morris...

Square Wheels and Other Easy-to-Build, Hands-on Science Activities.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Rathjen, Don and others. Square Wheels and Other Easy-to-Build, Hands-on Science Activities. Apr. 2002. 144p. illus. index. Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon St., San Francisco, CA 94123, paper, $19.95 (0-943451-55-8). 507. Teachers and parents are...

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. Apr. 2002. 272p. Farrar, $25 (0-374-23643-7). 660.6. The man who vaulted into the headlines in 1989 with his announcement of "the end of history" has...

Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Watson, Lyall. Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant. May 2002. 384p. illus. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05117-X). 599.67. In this evocative meditation on elephants, boyhood, and a sense of place, Watson has created a blend of natural history,...

Dirt under My Nails: an American Farmer and Her Changing Land.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Foster, Marilee. Dirt under My Nails: An American Farmer and Her Changing Land. May 2002. 184p. illus. Bridge Works, $22.95 (1-882593-54-5). 630. With such a title, one could imagine this being an ode to the rigors of plowing the north 40...

The Parenting Bible: the Answers to Parents' Most Common Questions.
April 1, 2002... Goldstein, Robin and Gallant, Janet. The Parenting Bible: The Answers to Parents' Most Common Questions. May 2002. 496p. Sourcebooks, paper, $14.95 (1-57071-907-1). 649. Goldstein has compiled questions she's encountered in 20 years of...

It's NOT that Complicated: the Twelve Rules for Raising Self-Reliant Children.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Peine, Douglas. It's NOT That Complicated: The Twelve Rules for Raising Self-Reliant Children. Apr. 2002. 150p. Health Communications, paper, $10.95 (0-7573-0004-9). 649. "Parenting is not quantum mechanics," Peine asserts. But effective...

Deck Scaping: Gardening and Landscaping on and around Your Deck.
April 1, 2002... Ellis, Barbara W. Deck Scaping: Gardening and Landscaping on and around Your Deck. 2002. 168p. illus. index. Storey, $27.50 (1-58017-459-0); paper, $19.95 (1-58017-408-6). 712. The Great American Deck, that no-man's land between house and...

The Conservatory Book.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Marston, Peter. The Conservatory Book. May 2002. 160p. illus. index. Cassell; dist. by Sterling, $34.95 (0-304-35638-7). 635. The introduction of double-glazed windows transformed chilly greenhouses into elegant year-round living spaces...

Two Gardeners: a Friendship in Letters.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... White, Katharine S. and Lawrence, Elizabeth. Two Gardeners: A Friendship in Letters. Apr. 2002. 256p. illus. index. Beacon, $24 (0-8070-8558-8). 635. Who knows why or how friendships develop? What fate brings together two kindred spirits?...

American Mavericks.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Ed. by Susan Key and Larry Rothe. 2001. 150p. illus. index. Univ. of California/San Francisco Symphony, $45 (0-520-23304-2); paper, $24.95 (0-520-23305-0). 780.97. In June 2000, the San Francisco Symphony presented a concert series to...

Luba in America.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hernandez, Gilbert. Luba in America. 2001. 170p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $19.95 (1-56097-467-2). 741.5. For two decades, alternative-comics artist Hernandez has documented the Latin American villagers of Palomar, creating a body of...

Art beyond the West: the Arts of Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Kampen O'Riley, Michael. Art beyond the West: The Arts of Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas. Apr, 2002. 344p. illus. Abrams, $75 (0-8109-1433-6). 709. Kampen O'Riley covers a colossal...

Soul Picnic: the Music and Passion of Laura Nyro.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Kart, Michele. Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro. Apr. 2002. 352p. illus. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-20941-X). 782.42166. "Some will feel saved by her music," Kart says, and that accurately indicates her...

Orson Welles: Interviews.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Ed. by Mark W. Estrin. Apr. 2002. 222p. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $46 (1-57806-208-X); paper, $18 (1-57806-209-8). 791.43. After Hollywood had turned its back on him, arson Welles became better known as a raconteur than as a film...

Hey, Mister: the Fall Collection.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Sickman-Garner, Pete. Hey, Mister: The Fall Collection. 2002. 176p. illus. Top Shelf; dist. by LPC, paper, $12.95 (1-891830-25-2). 741.5. In Andrew Crumey's comic novel Pfitz (1997), characters and other characters they create intrude in...

Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX.(More than a Game: One Woman's Fight for Gender Equity in Sport)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Gavora, Jessica. Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX. Apr. 2002. 300p. index. Encounter, 665 Third St., Ste. 330, San Francisco, CA 94107, $24.95 (1-893554-35-X). 796. Pemberton, Cynthia Lee A. More than a Game: One...

Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Neale, Jonathan. Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends. May 2002. 352p. illus. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.95 (0-312-26623-5). 796.52. Among the many accounts of mountain climbing in the...

The Long and the Short of It.
April 1, 2002... North, Andy and Rocks, Burton. The Long and the Short of It. Apr. 2002. 304p. illus. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-28797-6). 796.352. North won the U.S. Open twice, but because he only won one other professional golf tournament...

The Art of Chess.
April 1, 2002... Schafroth, Colleen. The Art of Chess. May 2002. 176p. illus. index. Abrams, $29.95 (0-8109-1001-2). 794.1. Historian Schafroth offers an engaging history of the game of chess. She traces its migration from India and/or China to Persia and...

Bronx Boy.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Charyn, Jerome. Bronx Boy. July 2002. 192p. St. Martin's, $22.95 (0-312-27810-1). 813. This very funny and almost hallucinatory "memoir" is, as Charyn states, "inspired" by his memories but quite fictionalized. It is written in an arc of...

Jerusalem Creek: Journeys into Driftless Country.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Leeson, Ted. Jerusalem Creek: Journeys into Driftless Country. July 2002. 256p. Lyons, $24.95 (1-58574-554-5). 799.1. Spring creeks (streams rising from subsurface aquifers) loom large in Leeson's angling life, even though less than...

Nothing Makes you Free: Writing by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Ed. by Melvin Jules Bukiet. Apr. 2002. 384p. Norton, $27.95 (0-393-05046-7). 808.8. Excerpts from the works of 30 writers whose parents survived the Holocaust make up this anthology of fiction and memoirs. They include Carl Friedman, the...

No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Offutt, Chris. No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home. Apr. 2002. 272p. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-684-86551-3). 818. Kentuckian Offutt's first memoir, The Same River Twice (1992), recounts his adventures as an escapee from the hill country he...

The Invisible World.
April 1, 2002... Canaday, John. The Invisible World. Apr. 2002. 88p. Louisiana State, $24.95 (0-8071-2775-2); paper, $16.95 (0-8071-2776-0). 811. Canaday tutored King Hassan's children in Jordan, but these poems about his time there don't touch on life...

Mother in Summer.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hahn, Susan. Mother in Summer. Apr. 2002. 88p. TriQuarterly, $39.95 (0-8101-5129-4); paper, $15.95 (0-8101-5130-8). 811. Hahn slashed and burned new ground in Holiday [BKL O 1 01] and now offers yet another dauntless collection, a tightly...

Collected Poems.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hartnett, Michael. Collected Poems. Apr. 2002. 256p. index. Gallery; dist. by Dufour, $44.95 (1-85235-296-5); paper, $24.95 (1-85235-295-7). 821. Hartnett, whose recent death was mourned by all lovers of the Irish language, is best known...

Dancing on the Edge.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Murray, Joan. Dancing on the Edge. Apr. 2002. 88p. Beacon, paper, $15 (0-8070-6871-3). 811. Here Murray further develops the sympathetic understanding of the individual as exemplar that she demonstrated in the extended monologue Queen of...

Collected Works.
April 1, 2002... Niedecker, Lorine. Collected Works. Ed. by Jenny Penberthy. Apr. 2002. 466p. illus. index. Univ. of California, $45 (0-520-22433-7). 811. Niedecker (1903-70) is often likened to Emily Dickinson. She, too, remained in the backwater where she...

Wild Stories: the Best of Men's Journal: Ten Years of Strange Trips, Narrow Escapes, and Men who Changed the World.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... May 2002. 304p. Crown, $24.95 (0-609-61046-5). 910.4. Men's Journal, with a paid circulation of more than 600,000, has won numerous awards for design and literary excellence. It tends to focus on travel and adventure rather than the...

No such Country: Essays toward Home.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Lueth, Elmer. No Such Country: Essays toward Home. Apr. 2002. 182p. Univ. of Iowa, paper, $22.95 (0-87745-796-4). 973. The miracle of language is revealed to the best of writers, including Lueth, a German emigre to America, who not only...

Route 66 A.D. on the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Perrottet, Tony. Route 66 A.D. on the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists. Apr. 2002. 320p. illus. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50432-X). 909. This retrospective travel guide and contemporary travel memoir pays tribute to intrepid tourists of the past...

French Gastronomy: the History and Geography of a Passion.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Pitte, Jean-Robert. French Gastronomy: The History and Geography of a Passion. Tr. by Jody Gladding. Apr. 2002. 176p. illus. index. Columbia, $24.95 (0-231-12416-3). 641. The triumph of French gastronomy owes as much to France's geography...

Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust. Ed. by Alexandra Zapruder. Apr. 2002. 472p. index. Yale, $35 (0-300-09243-1). 940.531. For the millions who read The Diary of Anne Frank (1952), this collection of 14 Holocaust...

Lusitania: an Epic Tragedy.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. May 2002. 544p. illus. index. Walker, $30 (0-8027-1375-0). 940.4. The destruction of the liner Lusitania in 1915 is two stories rolled into one: a Titanic-type tale of personal catastrophes and a...

Terrors and Marvels: How Science and Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Shachtman, Tom. Terrors and Marvels: How Science and Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II. June 2002. 368p. illus. index. Morrow, $26.95 (0-380-97876-8). 940.54. Military research in the Second World War foreshadowed...

Of Spies and Lies: a CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Sullivan, John F. Of Spies and Lies: A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam. May 2002. 280p. index. Univ. Press of Kansas, $29.95 (0-7006-1168-1). 959.704. There is no shortage of Vietnam War memoirs, of course, but here is one with what...

The Double Bond: Primo Levi.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Angier, Carole. The Double Bond: Primo Levi. May 2002. 416p. illus. index. Farrar, $27 (0-374-11315-7). 853.914. The story of Levi's private life is what's new in this monumental biography of the Italian writer and Holocaust survivor, from...

Camille Claudel.
April 1, 2002... *Ayral-Clause, Odile. Camille Claudel. May 2002. 280p. illus. index. Abrams, $29.95 (0-8109-4077-9). 730. In a just world, sculptor Claudel (1864-1943) would have been rewarded for her artistic genius, but instead she was ostracized. The...

Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Carmona, Michel. Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris. Tr. by Patrick Camiller. May 2002. 490p. illus. index. Ivan R. Dee, $35 (1-56663-427-X). 307.1. Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, the architect of modern Paris,...

The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Faulks, Sebastian. The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives. May 2002. 336p. illus. Vintage, paper, $14 (0-375-72744-2). 941.082. Through his novels Birdsong (1996) and Charlotte Grey (1999), Faulks has examined Britain's maturation into...

Fred Stone: Circus Performer and Musical Comedy Star.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Fields, Armond. Fred Stone: Circus Performer and Musical Comedy Star. May 2002. 304p. illus. index. McFarland, paper, $45 (0-7864-1161-9). 791. During the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth,...

The Three Stooges: the Triumphs and Tragedies of the Most Popular Comedy Team of All Time.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Forrester, Jeff and Forrester, Tom. The Three Stooges: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Most Popular Comedy Team of All Time. Ed. by Joe Wallison. 2002. 200p. illus. Donaldson, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #492, Los Angeles, CA 9002, paper, $29.95...

Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Gammel, Irene. Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity. May 2002. 546p. illus. index. MIT, $39.95 (0-262-07231-9). 700. Tantalizing glimpses of the ultra avant-garde Baroness Elsa (1814-1927) are found in histories of dada and...

The Last American Man.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Gilbert, Elizabeth. The Last American Man. May 2002. 271p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03086-4). 813. Eustace Conway discovered nature's wonders as a boy growing up in South Carolina during the 1960s. Miserable at home, a born perfectionist and...

The Long Recessional: the Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Gilmour, David. The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling. May 2002. 368p. illus. index. Farrar, $26 (0-374-18702-9). 828. For 50 years, Rudyard Kipling projected his political and social views in prose fiction and, more...

Can't Be Satisfied: the Life and Times of Muddy Waters.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... *Gordon, Robert. Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. May 2002. 416p. illus. index. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-32849-9). 782.421643. Gordon's biography of Muddy Waters starts on Stovall's farm, where a barefoot...

Top 10 biographies of social activists. (Spotlight On Biography).(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
April 1, 2002... It takes a certain combination of circumstances and personality--an often contrary mix of passion, conscience, expertise, and egoism--to become an activist and sacrifice so much time, energy, and privacy. Social activists are heroes when they...

Franco.
April 1, 2002... Hodges, Gabrille Ashford. Franco. Apr. 2002. 304p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $27.95 (0-312-28285-0). 946.082. In recent years, a revisionist view of Francisco Franco has emerged. Instead of the strutting Fascist dictator, this view...

A Mind's Matter: an Intellectual Autobiography.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Jaki, Stanley L. A Mind's Matter: An Intellectual Autobiography. Apr. 2002. 320p. Eerdmans, paper, $25 (0-8028-3960-6). 530. Philosopher, physicist, historian, priest--the multifaceted Jaki defies easy categorization. Against the...

Napoleon.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Johnson, Paul. Napoleon. May 2002. 190p. Viking/Lipper, $19.95 (0-670-03078-3). 944.05. McLynn, Frank. Napoleon. May 2002. 752p. illus. index. Arcade, $32.95 (1-55970-631-7). 944.05. Two new books, each one different in scope and...