Booklist articles from February 2006

Booklist archives from February 2006

Carroll, James. House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Carroll, James. House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power. May 2006. 704p. illus, index. Houghton, $30 (0-61818780-4). 355.021. Carroll is the author of the 1996 National Book Award-winning memoir An American...

Grimes, Martha. The Old Wine Shades.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Grimes, Martha. The Old Wine Shades. Feb. 2006.342p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03479-7). Crime Fiction. The Richard Jury series (this is the twentieth installment) is known for having an English pub in some sort of starring or supporting role,...

Hoag, Tami. Prior Bad Acts.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Hoag, Tami. Prior Bad Acts. Mar. 2006. 376p. Bantam, $26 (0-55380198-8). Crime Fiction. Law-enforcement officials throughout Hennepin County thought they'd have an advocate on the bench when one of their own--former state prosecutor Carey...

Iggulden, Conn. Emperor: The Gods of War.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Iggulden, Coon. Emperor: The Gods of War. Mar. 2006. 383p. Delacorte, $25 (0-385-33767-1). General Fiction. Iggulden concludes his magnificent four-part saga of Julius Caesar with a veritable bang. The many fans of the previous three...

Keyes, Marian. Anybody Out There?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Keyes, Marian. Anybody Out There? June 2006.464p. Morrow, $ 24.95 (0-06-073130-3). General Fiction. So tantalizing is the mystery behind Anna Walsh's multiple debilitating and disfiguring injuries, it would be criminal to explain why the...

Asensi, Matilde. The Last Cato.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Asensi, Matilde. The Last Cato. Tr. by Pamela Carmell. Apr. 2006. 480p. HarperCollins/Rayo, $ 24.95 (0-06-082857-9). Crime Fiction Asensi's first novel to be published in English features a clandestine religious organization, a code...

Parker, T. Jefferson. The Fallen.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Parker, T. Jefferson. The Fallen. Mar. 2005. 336p. Morrow, $ 24.95 (0-06-056238-2). Crime Fiction. Robbie Brownlaw was just another San Diego police officer until a fall from a sixth-story hotel window literally changed his perspective...

Mortimer, John. Quite Honestly.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Mortimer, John. Quite Honestly. Mar. 2006.288p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03483-5). General Fiction. Novelist, playwright, and former barrister Mortimer departs from his hugely popular Rumpole series in this lively romp revolving around love...

Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. Poison.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. Poison. Apr. 2006.608p. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-06101-9). General Fiction. Nobel Laureate author Peter Grovesnor was poison to women. His first wife, poet Evelyn Graves, committed suicide by sticking her head in a...

Weldon, Fay. She May Not Leave.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Weldon, Fay. She May Not Leave. June 2006.288p. Grove/Atlantic, $24 (0-87113-942-1). General Fiction. The acerbic Weldon aims some well-honed barbs at political correctness in this amusing send-up of modern relationships and child-rearing...

Jacobsen, Douglas and Sawatsky, Rodney J. Gracious Christianity: Living the Love We Profess.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Jacobsen, Douglas and Sawatsky, Rodney J. Gracious Christianity: Living the Love We Profess. Feb. 2006. 144p. index. Baker Academic, paper, $12.99 (1-8010-3139-7). 230. Jacobsen, a professor of church history and theology and the late...

Martin, James. My Life with the Saints.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Martin, James. My Life with the Saints. Mar. 2006. 424p. Loyola, $22.95 (0-82942001-0). 270.092. It is one thing to read the lives of the saints, quite another to read about somebody who lives with the saints, who thinks about, researches,...

Nation, Mark Thiessen. John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Nation, Mark Thiessen. John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions. Feb. 2006. 222p. index. Eerdmans, paper, $20 (0-80283940-1). 230. Thirty-four years after The Politics of Jesus challenged Christians...

Claiborne, Shane. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Claiborne, Shane. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical. Feb. 2006. 192p. Zondervan, paper, $12.99 (0-31026630-0). 277.3. From dressing the wounds of lepers in Calcutta to living among the homeless in Philadelphia to...

Ratzinger, Joseph and Pera, Marcello. Without Roots: Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Ratzinger, Joseph and Pera, Marcello. Without Roots: Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam. Tr. by Michael F. Moore. Feb. 2006. 176p. index. Basic, $22 (0-46500634-5). 261 Complementary lectures delivered in May 2004 and the lecturers'...

Giving something back.(The Manley Arts)(Column)
February 1, 2006... Just about everyone in this country agrees that democracy is not a perfect form of government but that it is superior to the rest of the field. The concept of electing our government officials in a vote of the people, however, is not as deeply...

This Incomplete One: Sermons Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... This Incomplete One: Sermons Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person. Ed. by Michael D. Bush. Feb. 2006. 175p. Eerdmans, paper, $12 (0-8028-2227-4). 252. When the sticks and stones of illness, accident, and suicide cut young lives short,...

Tisdale, Sallie. Women of the Way: Discovering 2500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Tisdale, Sallie. Women of the Way: Discovering 2500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom. Mar. 2006. 320p. HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95 (0-06-059816-6). 294.3. When Tisdale began practicing Zen Buddhism 25 years ago, she had no sense of sexism within...

Axelrod, Alan. Patton.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Axelrod, Alan. Patton. Feb. 2006. 224p. illus. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $21.95 (1-4039-7139-0). 355. George S. Patton, aka "Old Blood and Guts," inaugurates Palgrave's Great Generals series, with Grant, Eisenhower, and World War II...

Bartlett, Bruce. Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Bartlett, Bruce. Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. Feb. 2006. 320p. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-51827-7). 330.973. Bartlett, an economist and former Reagan administration official, attacks the Bush...

Boese, Alex. Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Boese, Alex. Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. Apr. 2006. 288p. illus. Harcourt, paper, $14 (0-15603083-7). 001.9. From the author of the entertaining Museum of Hoaxes (2002) comes an even more entertaining follow-up....

Buchman, Dana. A Special Education: One Family's Journey through the Maze of Learning Disabilities.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Buchman, Dana. A Special Education: One Family's Journey through the Maze of Learning Disabilities. Mar. 2006. 224p. Perseus, $21.95 (0-7382-1033-1). 306.874. Fashion designer Buchman, in the midst of a career of accomplishments, knew...

Daly, Mary. Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Daly, Mary. Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big. Feb. 2006. 240p. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95 (1-40396853-5). 305.42. Daly has her reputation as a radical feminist with little patience for the foibles and menace of...

Eberstadt, Fernanda. Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Eberstadt, Fernanda. Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France. Mar. 2006. 256p. Knopf, $24.95 (0-375-41116-X). 305.891. What began as an attempt to document the fortunes of a successful Gypsy rumba...

Dreher, Rod. Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (or at Least the Republican Party).(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Dreher, Rod. Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save...

Kilmer-Purcell, Josh. I Am Not Myself These Days.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Kilmer-Purcell, Josh. I Am Not Myself These Days. Feb. 2006. 320p. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper, $13.95 (0-06-081732-1). 306.77. To say Kilmer-Purcell lived a double life is an understatement. If his memoir can be believed and even if it...

Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families. Ed. by Leslie Morgan Steiner. Mar. 2006. 368p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6415-5). 306.874. Steiner has set out to resolve the "cat fight" between...

Ormerod, Paul. Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Ormerod, Paul. Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics. Feb. 2006. 272p. illus. index. Pantheon, $24.95 (0-375-42405-9). 330.1. Economist Ormerod addresses "what is probably the most fundamental feature of both biological...

Redefining Sovereignty.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Redefining Sovereignty. Ed. by Orrin C. Judd. Mar. 2006. 520p. Smith & Kraus, $29.99 (1-57525-416-6). 327.73. Editor Judd is the more prolific half of brothersjudd.com, a neoconservative blogsite as dedicated to providing up-to-the-minute...

Richelson, Jeffrey T. Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Richelson, Jeffrey T. Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea. Mar. 2006. 608p. illus. index. Norton, $34.95 (0-393-05383-0). 347.1. Richelson traces the evolution of U.S. nuclear...

The Seventy Great Battles in History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... The Seventy Great Battles in History. Ed. by Jeremy Black. 2005. 304p. illus. index. Thames and Hudson, $40 (0-500-25125-8). 355.409. Black explains that two major criteria guided the selection of 70 great battles: the cultural consequence...

Smith, Harriet J. Parenting for Primates.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Smith, Harriet J. Parenting for Primates. Feb. 2006. 394p. illus. index. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-01938-5). 306.874. Emerging from a fusion of Smith's training and education in primatology and clinical psychology, this look at parental...

Easterly, William. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Easterly, William. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much III and So Little Good. Mar. 2006. 418p. illus. index. Penguin Press, $27.95 (1-59420-037-8). 338.91. As the dictator of Haiti for...

Tucker, Jonathan B. War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Tucker, Jonathan B. War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda. Feb. 2006. 496p. index. Pantheon, $30 (0-375-42229-3). 358. Nerve agents have been in existence since the 1930s, when German scientists invented them. But...

Ballard, Chris. The Butterfly Hunter: Adventures of People Who Found Their True Calling Way off the Beaten Path.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Ballard, Chris. The Butterfly Hunter: Adventures of People Who Found Their True Calling Way off the Beaten Path. Apr. 2006. 272p. Broadway, $23.95 (0-7679-1868-1). 650.92. You hear about it all the time: the dream job, the one occupation...

Crowley, Katherine and Elster, Kathi. Working with You Is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Crowley, Katherine and Elster, Kathi. Working with You Is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work. Mar. 2006. 256p. index. Warner, $22.95 (0-44657674-3). 650.1. "I don't want to quit my job; I want to quit my manager (or...

Fishman, Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Fishman, Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy. Feb. 2006. 304p. index. Penguin, $25.95 (1-59420-076-9). 381. The "Wal-Mart effect" has become a...

Frieden, Jeffry. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Frieden, Jeffry. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. Feb. 2006. 448p. index. Norton, $29.95 (0-39305808-5). 337. Frieden, an academic, traces the history of globalization from the late 1800s to the present,...

Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America. Mar. 2006. 400p. index. Pantheon, $26.95 (0-375-42237-4). 977.3. Green, an academic, offers a narrative...

Hanlon, Patrick. Primal Branding: Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Hanlon, Patrick. Primal Branding: Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future. Feb. 2006. 256p. index. Free Press, $25 (0-684-04100-6). 658.8. Hanlon, founder and CEO of Thinktopia Inc., has worked on such famous brands as...

Grambo, Rebecca L. Wolf: Legend, Enemy, Icon.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Grambo, Rebecca L. Wolf: Legend, Enemy, Icon. Feb. 2006. 17p. illus. index. Firefly, $34.95 (1-55407-044-9). 599.773. Humans have always been fascinated by wolves. These top predators' lives resemble ours in many ways, not the least of...

Hirshfeld, Alan. The Electric Life of Michael Faraday.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Hirshfeld, Alan. The Electric Life of Michael Faraday. Mar. 2006. 272p. illus. Walker, $24 (0-8027-1470-6). 530.092. This is the second recent biography of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), following the lengthier A Life of Discovery, by James...

Levy, Bob. Club George: The Diary of a Central Park Bird Watcher.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Levy, Bob. Club George: The Diary of a Central Park Bird Watcher. Mar. 2006. 384p. illus. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-34167-9). 598. George is a red-winged blackbird, resident of a small pond in New York's Central Park. Levy was...

Seife, Charles. Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Seife, Charles. Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes. Feb. 2006. 288p. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03441-X). 006.3. Bit by bit, cutting-edge...

What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty. Ed. by John Brockman. Mar. 2006. 288p. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper, $13.95 (0-06-084181-8). 500. In this informative and often surprising book...

Brown, David J. Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Brown, David J. Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature. 2005. 208p. illus. index. Firefly, paper, $29.95 (1-55407099-6). 624.2. Brown offers a history of more than 100 of the world's greatest bridges, organized chronologically. He...

Fagan, Brian. Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting and the Discovery of the New World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Fagan, Brian. Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting and the Discovery of the New World. Mar. 2006. 368p. illus. index. Basic, $26 (0-465-02284-7). 639.2. Anthropologist Fagan traces the rise of the European fishing industry. He posits the root...

Foster, Ken. The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Foster, Ken. The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind. Mar. 2006. 240p. Lyons, paper, $12.95 (1-59228-749-2). 636.7. Foster believes that dogs are like tattoos: they leave an indelible mark. His warm, candid,...

Chu, Miyoko. Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Chu, Miyoko. Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds. Mar. 2006. 320p. illus. index. Walker, $23 (0-8027-1468-4). 598.252. The wonder of bird migration has puzzled humans for centuries. Literally millions of birds...

Reece, Erik. Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness; Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Reece, Erik. Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness; Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia. Feb. 2006. 240p. Riverhead, $23.95 (I-59448-908-4). 622. Criminal.That's the word that comes to mind upon reading...

Maitre-Allain, Thierry and Piednoir, Christian. Aquariums: The Complete Guide to Freshwater and Saltwater Aquariums.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Maitre-Allain, Thierry and Piednoir, Christian. Aquariums: The Complete Guide to Freshwater and Saltwater Aquariums. Feb. 2006. 288p. illus. index. Firefly, $39.95 (1-55407-085-6). 639.34. Fish keeping has been a popular form of recreation...

Mullane, Mike. Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Mullane, Mike. Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut. Feb. 2006. 352p. Scribner, $26 (0-7432-7682-5). 629.450092. One of the first astronaut memoirs from the space-shuttle era tells a thoroughly absorbing story....

Reston, James. Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Reston, James. Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey. Mar. 2006. 256p. Harmony, $23 (1-4000-8243-9). 618.92. When Hillary was born, in 1981, she was a happy-surprise third child for Reston and his wife,...

Austin, David. The English Roses: Classic Favorites and New Selections.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Austin, David. The English Roses: Classic Favorites and New Selections. Feb. 2006. 304p. illus. index. Timber, $39.95 (0-88192-753-8). 635.9. Austin achieved great success as a hybridizer of his so-called English Roses, which possess a...

Greenfeld, Karl Taro. China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Greenfeld, Karl Taro. China Syndrome. The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic. Apr. 2006. 464p. index. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-058722-9). 614.5. Former Time Asia editor Greenfeld was in China when evidence of a new...

Chandler, Charlotte. The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis; A Personal Biography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Chandler, Charlotte. The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis; A Personal Biography. Mar. 2006. 352p. illus. index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-6208-8). 792.028. Chandler, author of such celebrity biographies as Hello, I Must Be...

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute. Ed. by George Stevens. Feb. 2006. 736p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (1-4000-4054-X). 791.4302. When the American Film Institute opened the...

Emerick, Geoff and Massey, Howard. Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Emerick, Geoff and Massey, Howard. Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. Mar. 2006. 304p. Gotham, $26 (1-592-40179-1). 782.42. Emerick was only 15 when he began working with the Beatles as an assistant...

Hackett, Thomas. Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Hackett, Thomas. Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling. Mar. 2006. 288p. illus. Ecco, $24.95 (0-060-19829-X). 796.812. Hackett approaches the subject of professional wrestling from the premise that it is not dishonest....

Scdoris, Rachel and Steber, Rick. No End in Sight: My Life as a Blind Iditarod Racer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Scdoris, Rachel and Steber, Rick. No End in Sight: My Life as a Blind Iditarod Racer. Rev. ed. Mar. 2006. 288p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $22.95 (0-312-35273-5). 798.8. For the uninitiated, the Iditarod Trail International Sled Dog Race...

Schoemer, Karen. Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Schoemer, Karen. Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music. Feb. 2006. 256p. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-7246-3). 782.42166. This is no conventional music history. Although Schoemer, Newsweek's former chief pop-music critic,...

Barich, Bill. A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Barich, Bill. A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish. Mar. 2006. 320p. Knopf, $24 (I-4000-4279-8). 798.4009417. The topics that bring out the best in Barich, which is very good indeed, are fishing, horse racing and...

Cooper, Bernard. The Bill from My Father.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Cooper, Bernard. The Bill from My Father. Feb. 2006. 256p. Simon & Schuster, $23 (0-7432-4962-3). 813. Coopers midlife coming-of-age story was undertaken after a New York editor read his essay about his father and encouraged a book. Dad, a...

White, Edmund. My Lives.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... White, Edmund. My Lives. Apr. 2006. 368p. illus. Ecco, $25.95 (0-06-621397-5). 813. Readers will quickly come to realize the reason why this esteemed American writer pluralizes the word life in the title of his memoirs. Now in his...

Odegard, Knut. Judas Iscariot and Other Poems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Odegard, Knut. Judas Iscariot and Other Poems. Tr. by Brian McNeil. Feb. 2006. 72p. Waxwing; dist. by Dufour, paper, $16.95 (0-9549771-0-6). 839.82. Though among the most "advanced" of nations, Norway is remote and sparsely populated,...

Pushkin, Alexander. The Gypsies & Other Narrative Poems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Pushkin, Alexander. The Gypsies & Other Narrative Poems. Tr. by Antony Wood. Feb. 2006. 160p. illus. Godine, $24.95 (1-56792272-4). 891.71. Wood adds value to his sparkling versions of five story-poems by Pushkin (1799-1837) with a good...

Brown, Malcolm. Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, the Legend.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Brown, Malcolm. Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, the Legend. 2005. 208p. illus. index. Thames and Hudson, $45 (0-500-51238-8). 940.41. Lawrence was a Welsh-born British soldier, adventurer, and writer who led the Arab revolt against the Turks...

Hirshfield, Jane. After.(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Hirshfield, Jane. After. Feb. 2006. 112p. HarperCollins, $23.95 (0-06-077916-0). 811. A number of the finely measured and carefully weighted poems in Hirshfield's stirring new collection carry the subtitle "An Assay," meaning a trial or...

Coughlin, Con. American Ally: Tony Blair and the War on Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Coughlin, Con. American Ally: Tony Blair and the War on Terror. Feb. 2006. 400p. Ecco, $26.95 (0-06-073126-5). 941.086. A British journalist discusses Blair's pivotal role in two wars--against al Qaeda and against Saddam Hussein--as the...

Eicher, David J. Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Eicher, David J. Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War. Mar. 2006. 368p. index. Little, Brown, $27.95 (0-316-73905-7). 973.7. Much ink has been spilled debating the question of why the South lost the Civil War. Eicher...

Gaustad, Edwin S. Benjamin Franklin.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Gaustad, Edwin S. Benjamin Franklin. Feb. 2006. 160p. illus. index. Oxford, $17.95 (0-19-530535-3). 973.3. Despite its subject's great familiarity, Gaustad's second Lives and Legacies series entry is even more engrossing than Roger...

Grunwald, Michael. The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Grunwald, Michael. The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. Mar. 2006.464p. illus. index. Simon & Schuster, $27 (0-7432-5105-9). 917. The phrase teeming with life could have been coined to describe the Everglades...

Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. Feb. 2006. 400p. illus. index. Knopf, $30 (0-375-41135-6). 973.91. Today, evangelical Christianity, particularly the fundamentalist strain, is generally aligned with...

Gilmour, David. The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Gilmour, David. The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. Feb. 2006. 416p. illus. index. Farrar, $26 (0-374-28354-0). 954.03. Biographer of Lord Curzon and Rudyard Kipling, Gilmour deepens his study of British imperialists with...

Holland, James. Together We Stand: North Africa, 1942-1943; Turning the Tide in the West.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Holland, James. Together We Stand: North Africa, 1942-1943; Turning the Tide in the West. Feb. 2006. 688p. illus. Hyperion/ Miramax, $26.95 (1-4013-5253-7). 940.542. Britain's North Africa campaigns are one of the most heavily documented...

Jones, Ann. Kabul in Winter: Life without Peace in Afghanistan.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Jones, Ann. Kabul in Winter: Life without Peace in Afghanistan. Mar. 2006. 288p. index. Holt/Metropolitan, $24 (0-80507884-3). 958.104. In this chilling account, Jones, a native New Yorker, recounts her experiences as an aid worker in...

Klempner, Mark. The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers & Their Stories of Courage.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Klempner, Mark. The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers & Their Stories of Courage. Mar. 2006. 256p. illus. Pilgrim, $24 (0-8298-1699-2). 940.53. Klempner examines the lives of 10 Dutch rescuers who saved Jewish children during the Nazi...

Novak, Michael and Novak, Jana. Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Novak, Michael and Novak, Jana. Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country. Mar. 2006. 304p. illus. index. Basic, $26 (0-465-05126-X). 973.4. Though historians have frequently identified George Washington as a deist...

Adams, Nick. Making Friends with Black People.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Adams, Nick. Making Friends with Black People. Mar. 2006. 208p. Kensington/ Dafina, paper, $14 (0-7582-1295-X). 305.8. Stand-up comic Adams takes a hilarious look at race relations in the U.S. and the varied and often ridiculous ways we try...

African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader. Ed. by Gene Andrew Jarrett. Mar. 2006. 440p. index. NYU, $79 (0-8147-4287-4); paper, $25 (0-8147-4288-2). 810. "African American literature should be defined in the broadest...

Binstock, Jonathan P. Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Binstock, Jonathan P. Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective. 2005. 237p. illus. index. Univ. of California, $60 (0-520-24634-9); paper, $34.95 (0-520-24645-4). 759.13. In 1968 Gilliam liberated his abstract expressionist canvases from their...

Blakely, Robert J. and Shepard, Marcus. Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and Equality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Blakely, Robert J. and Shepard, Marcus. Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and Equality. Mar. 2006. 232p. illus. index. Northwestern Univ., $24.95 (0-8101-2335-5). 977.3. Dickerson's life as social activist, history-making lawyer, and...

Carr, Cynthia. Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Carr, Cynthia. Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America. Mar. 2006. 512p. illus. index. Crown, $25.95 (0-517-70506-0). 305.896. Marion, Indiana, was the site of a lynching in 1930 that was...

Colaiaco, James A. Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Colaiaco, James A. Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July. Feb. 2006. 256p. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95 (1-4039-7033-5). 973.7. Antebellum audiences enjoyed patriotic speeches on Independence Day, but a white Rochester, New York,...