Booklist articles from June 2007

Booklist archives from June 2007

Circling My Mother.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Circling My Mother. By Mary Gordon. Aug. 2007. 272p. Pantheon, $24 (9780375424564). 813. A "word-drunk child," Gordon became a poet, but after a sequence of family tragedies, she switched to writing fiction (Pearl, 2005) and memoirs. The...

Ike: An American Hero.(a book on Dwight D. Eisenhower)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Ike: An American Hero. By Michael Korda. Aug. 2007. 784p. illus. HarperCollins, $34.95 (9780060756659). 973.921 Eisenhower's life has been so thoroughly researched (see the definitive biographies by Stephen Ambrose and Carlo d'Este) that...

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. By Carl Bernstein. June 2007. 640p. Knopf, $27.95 (0-375-40766-9). 328.73092. Eight years in the making, Bernstein's thorough look at Hillary Clinton is both fair and fascinating....

Beyond Reach.(crime fiction)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Beyond Reach. By Karin Slaughter. Aug. 2007.416p. Delacorte, $25 (0-385-33947-X). Crime Fiction. After producing last year's stand-alone thriller Triptych, Slaughter returns with the sixth entry in the series that has propelled her onto...

The Devil's Labyrinth.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Devil's Labyrinth. By John Saul. July 2007. 368p. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-48703-6). Crime Fiction. Horror specialist Saul's new thriller is a career high for him, one that may prove controversial. It's a demonic-possession yarn set...

In at the Death: Settling Accounts.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... In at the Death: Settling Accounts. By Harry Turtledove. July 2007. 624p. Del Key, $26.95 (0-345-49247-1). General Fiction. Here ends (probably) alternate history's closest rival-10 volumes and a prequel--to Robert Jordan's plethoric...

Lean Mean Thirteen.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Lean Mean Thirteen. By Janet Evanovich. June 2007. 320p. St. Martin's, $27.95 (0-312-34949-1). Crime Fiction. Stephanie Plum works as a bail bondswoman for her cousin Vinnie in Trenton. She's mostly in love with Morelli the cop, who calls...

Heartsick.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... * Heartsick. By Chelsea Cain. Sept. 2007. 288p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $23.95 (0-312-36846-1). Crime Fiction. It's a long way from a Nancy Drew parody (Confessions of a Teen Sleuth, 2005) to one of the most original serial-killer thrillers...

New England White.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... * New England White. By Stephen L. Carter. July 2007. 551 p. Knopf, $26.95 (9780375413629). General Fiction. When Kellen Zant, a brilliant black economist on the faculty of a New England college, is murdered in an apparent robbery attempt,...

Booklist editors recommend.(Booklist Online)
June 1, 2007... Whether you're a librarian helping a patron find read-alikes, or you're looking for a good book for yourself, Booklist Editors Recommend is the key to your next good read. In Booklist Online, you can generate read-alike lists by matching...

Sandworms of Dune.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Sandworms of Dune. By Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Aug. 2007. 496p. Tor, $27.95 (0-7653-1293-X). SF/Fantasy. By the time of this second volume of the third Dune prequel trilogy, battles and plagues have nearly destroyed humans and...

The Seventh Sacrament.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... * The Seventh Sacrament. By David Hewson. July 2007. 416p. Delacorte, $22 (0-385-33956-9). Crime Fiction. Hewson's uncompromising trio of ant/establishment Roman cops--Nic Costa, Gianni Peroni, and their boss, Leo Falcone--are back in the...

We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age. By Scott Gant. June 2007. 226p. Free Press, $26 (9780743299268). 071. With the growth of the Internet and common access to technology,...

Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. By Gerd Gigerenzer. July 2007. 269p.Viking, $25.95 (9780670038633). 153.4. Trust your hunches, for intuition does have an underlying rationale, according to this accessible account from a...

The Seven T's: Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Seven T's: Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy. By Judy Collins. June 2007. 192p. Tarcher, paper, $14.95 (1-58542495-1). 155.9. Many mourning the loss of a family member or friend to suicide will find solace and practical...

Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion. By David Gelernter. June 2007. 240p. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-51312-7). 200.973. American Enterprise Institute fellow Gelernter argues that America is a biblical republic and Americanism a...

Caring for Mother: A Daughter's Long Goodbye.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Caring for Mother: A Daughter's Long Goodbye. By Virginia Stem Owens. June 2007. 176p. Westminster/John Knox, paper, $16.95 (9780664231521). 259. With the 85-and-older population the fastest-growing segment of the elderly, and with...

A City upon a Hill: How the Sermon Changed the Course of American History.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... A City upon a Hill: How the Sermon Changed the Course of American History. By Larry Witham. Aug. 2007. 336p. illus. Harper San Francisco, $24 (0-06-085427-8). 251.009. Witham's highly readable history of the American sermon strongly...

The 41-page syndrome.(The Manley Arts)
June 1, 2007... I tried to raise my son Stephen right. As he grew up, I gave him a steady dose of baseball, football, and basketball. Even though he was never much of an athlete, I succeeded in instilling in him a love of sports. At the time, I thought it was...

The Five Percenters: Islam, Hiphop, and the Gods of New York.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Five Percenters: Islam, Hiphop, and the Gods of New York. By Michael Muhammad Knight. June 2007. 352p. illus. Oneworld, $27.95 (9781851685134). 297. Korean War vet and martial-arts enthusiast Clarence Jowars Smith founded the Nations...

From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible. By Eric H. Cline. June 2007. 256p. illus. National Geographic, $26 (9781426200847). 221.6. Cline, a professor at George Washington University who has written several popular books on...

God's Echo: Exploring Scripture with Midrash.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... God's Echo: Exploring Scripture with Midrash. By Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. June 2007. 176p. Paraclete, $19.95 (9781557254788). 296.1. Midrash, the discovery of meanings other than literal ones in the Hebrew Bible, is derived from the root...

Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... * Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish. By Joe Mackall. June 2007. 256p. Beacon, $24.95 (9780807010648). 289.7. As this wonderful and enlightening book makes clear, the Amish are hardly a monolithic group. Actually, there are many...

Rather Laugh Than Cry: Stories from a Hassidic Household.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Rather Laugh Than Cry: Stories from a Hassidic Household. By Malka Ziporah. July 2007. 160p. Vehicule, $17.95 (1-55065-220-6). 296. Malka Ziporah is the pseudonym of a Montreal Hassidic woman who has raised a family of 12 children. She was...

Cutting Up Touches: A Brief History of Pockets and the People Who Pick Them.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Cutting Up Touches: A Brief History of Pockets and the People Who Pick Them. By David Avadon. June 2007. 150p. illus. Squash, $25 (0-9744681-6-9). 364.16. At first blush, Avadon's study seems a combination of fashion screed and true crime....

Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's. By Lauren Kessler. June 2007. 304p. Viking, $24.95 (9780670038596). 362.196. Assigned to write about Alzheimer's disease, Kessler took a page from a handful of notable...

Fair and Balanced, My Ass!(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Fair and Balanced, My Ass! By Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer. June 2007. 304p. Nation, paper, $14.95 (1-56858347-8). 302.23. Minton Amann and Breuer, famous for their animus toward Bill O'Reilly, take Fox News to task, not because of...

The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time. By Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen. June 2007. 300p. Three Rivers, paper, $12.95 (9780307381354). 333.72. Environmental matters get the star...

Honor Betrayed: Sexual Abuse in America's Military.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Honor Betrayed: Sexual Abuse in the U.S. Military. By Mic Hunter. June 2007. 256p. Barricade, $24.95 (1-56980-325-0). 355.1. Illuminating a problem U.S. armed services still try to hide, Hunter shows that women and homosexuals in all four...

Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia. By Lesley Chamberlain. Aug. 2007. 300p. St. Martin's, $26.95 (0-31236730-9). 325. In the autumn of 1922, 160 intellectuals and their families...

Plato's Republic.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Plato's Republic. By Simon Blackburn. July 2007. 171p. Atlantic Monthly, $19.95 (9780871139573). 321. A premier name in philosophy, Blackburn candidly expresses diffidence toward Plato's Republic. His objections are partly...

Secrets Can Be Murder: What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us about Ourselves.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Secrets Can Be Murder: What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us about Ourselves. By Jane Velez-Mitchell. June 2007. 336p. illus. Simon & Schuster/ Touchstone, $26 (0-7432-9936-1). 364. The true-crime spectrum runs from lurid quickie...

Sentinel of the Seas.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Sentinel of the Seas. By Dennis M. Powers. Aug. 2007. 432p. illus. Citadel, $21.95 (0-80652842-7). 387.1. Powers returns to the northern California setting of the excellent The Raging Sea (2005) and Treasure Ship (2006) to tell the story of...

Viewer Discretion Advised: Taking Control of Mass Media Influences.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Viewer Discretion Advised: Taking Control of Mass Media Influences. By Jeffrey McCall. 2007. 288p. Rowman & Littlefield, $65 (0-74255519-4); paper, $19.95 (0-7425-5520-8). 302.2. More alarming than the amount of time Americans spend...

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... * Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. By Dana Thomas. Aug. 2007. Penguin, $27.95 (9781594201295). 338.4. Thomas has been the fashion writer for Newsweek in Paris for 12 years and writes about style for the New York Times Magazine and other...

The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling. By Rachel Gathercole. June 2007. 288p. Maple Tree, paper, $14.95 (9781600651076). 371.04. Gathercole, who has spent 10 years homeschooling her three children, says what most...

Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant. By Drew Whitelegg. June 2007. 320p. illus. NYU, $70 (9780814794074); paper, $20 (9780814794081). 387.7. In his new history of flight attendants, Whitelegg, of...

The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity. By Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder. June 2007. 288p. Collins, $26.95 (9780060896232). 333. Alternative energy, once the domain of hippies and off-the-grid fringe...

The Either/Or Investor: How to Succeed in Global Investing, One Decision at a Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Either/Or Investor: How to Succeed in Global Investing, One Decision at a Time. By Clark Winter. 2007.224p. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6592-5). 332.6. Prominent investment strategist Winter presents a new approach for investors facing an...

The Elephant and the Dragon.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Elephant and the Dragon. By Robyn Meredith. July 2007. 384p. Norton, $27.95 (0-393-06236-8). 330.951. Meredith, a foreign correspondent, describes the global power shift occurring in India and in China as computers continue to change...

Leviathan: The History of American Whaling.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Leviathan: The History of American Whaling. By Eric Jay Dolin. July 2007. 416p. illus. Norton, $27.95 (9780393060577). 639.2. Many people regard the hunting of whales as an archaic and even barbaric practice that threatens a magnificent,...

Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want. By M. P. Dunleavey. June 2007. 256p. Broadway, $18.95 (0-76792278-6). 332.024. Not another how-to-manage-your-money book of advice?! Well, yes and no. New York Times business...

New Ideas from Dead CEOs: Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... New Ideas from Dead CEOs: Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office. By Todd G. Buchholz. 2007. 320p. Collins, $26.95 (9780061197628). 338.092. In selecting great ideas from dozens of entrepreneurial CEOs, Buchholz insisted that these...

Surrounded by Geniuses.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Surrounded by Geniuses. By Alan S. Gregerman. June 2007. 256p. Sourcebooks, $16.95 (1-40220910-X). 658.4. In business today, it's the soft stuff that leaders discover to be the most difficult, which is one reason behind the onslaught of...

The Ugly Truth about Managing People: 50 Must-Get-Right Management Challenges ... and How to Really Handle Them.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Ugly Truth about Managing People: 50 Must-Get-Right Management Challenges... and How to Really Handle Them. By Ruth King. July 2007. 320p. Sourcebooks, paper, $16.95 (1-4022-0913-4). 658. Award yourself a nickel for every time you--or...

The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook. By Glenn Ruffenach and Kelly Greene. June 2007. 320p. Three Rivers, paper, $14.95 (9780307350992). 646.7. "Be prepared" should now be the boomers' slogan for the upcoming wide world of...

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... * Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog. By Ted Kerasote. July 2007. 416p. Harcourt, $25 (9780151012701). 636. Merle showed up at the San Juan River at the same time Kerasote and his river-rafting friends arrived. Merle looked at...

The Wall Street Journal Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect Yourself from the Most Pervasive Crime in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Wall Street Journal Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect Yourself from the Most Pervasive Crime in America. By Terri Cullen. 2007. 208p. illus. Three Rivers, paper, $13.95 (9780307338532). 362.88. Identity theft is one of the...

What Were They Thinking: Unconventional Wisdom about Management.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... What Were They Thinking: Unconventional Wisdom about Management. By Jeffrey Pfeffer. July 2007. 256p. Harvard Business, $25 (1-4221-0312-9). 658. There is much to laud about the objective perspective that Stanford professor and author...

The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. By John Ray. June 2007. 208p. illus. Harvard, $19.95 (0-674-02493-1). 493. The renowned key to Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Rosetta Stone is an awe-inspiring object; seeing it inspired Ray...

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming. By Chris Mooney. June 2007. 400p. illus. Harcourt, $26 (9780151012879). 551.6. Mooney, whose The Republican War on Science (2005) offered a hard-hitting look at the...

To Full Term: A Mother's Triumph over Miscarriage.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... To Full Term: A Mother's Triumph over Miscarriage. By Darci Klein. June 2007. 288p. Berkley, paper, $14 (9780425215876). 618.3. Pregnant for the fifth time, Klein knew she would have to marshal all available resources to ensure a healthy...

Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes. By Ani Phyo. June 2007. 272p. illus. Marlowe, $19.95 (1-60094-000-5). 641.5. A cookbook dedicated to raw food appears oxymoronic to the uninitiated, but people who aim to...

Core collection: the Iraq war, four years in.(books on Iraq war)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Where does one begin talking about the war in Iraq and about the many books that have been published on the topic? We leave the first discussion to government spokespeople, televison pundits, and political journalists. The latter discussion we...

Confessions, Romances, Secrets, and Temptations: Archer St. John and the St. John Romance Comics.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Confessions, Romances, Secrets, and Temptations: Archer St. John and the St. John Romance Comics. By John Benson. 2007. 112p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $9.95 (9781560977919). 741.5. One of the most popular comic-book genres half a...

Jane Campion.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Jane Campion. By Kathleen McHugh. June 2007. 196p. illus. Univ. of Illinois, $50 (9780252032042); paper, $19.95 (9780252074479). 791.43. Best known for her third feature, The Piano, Campion had already won widespread praise for Sweetie and...

Once upon a Time: Walt Disney; The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Once upon a Time: Walt Disney; The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios. Ed. by Bruno Girveau. Tr. by Maria Balkan and others. June 2007. 390p. illus. Prestel, $75 (9783791337708). 791.43. What makes the Disney Studio feature films...

The Playboy Interviews: The Comedians.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Playboy Interviews: The Comedians. Ed. by Stephen Randall. Sept. 2007. 448p. M Press, $22.95 (1-59582-066-3). 792.702. The immensely readable fifth collection of Playboy interviews supports believing that at least some of those who said...

The Rockabilly Legends: They Called It Rockabilly Long before They Called It Rock and Roll.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Rockabilly Legends: They Called It Rockabilly Long before They Called It Rock and Roll. By Jerry Naylor and Steve Halliday. June 2007. 286p. illus. Hal Leonard, $35 (9781423420422). 781.6. Labors of love come no handsomer than this...

Roman Polanski.(biography)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Roman Polanski. By James Morrison. July 2007. 200p. illus. Univ. of Illinois, $50 (0-25203205-5); paper, $19.95 (0-252-07446-7). 791.43. Polanski first drew critical note with such early-1960s arthouse fare as Knife in the Water and...

Jessica's McClintock's Simply Romantic Decorating: Creating Elegance and Intimacy throughout Your Home.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Jessica's McClintock's Simply Romantic Decorating: Creating Elegance and Intimacy throughout Your Home. By Jessica McClintock and Karen Kelly. June 2007. 224p. illus. Rodale, $32.50 (1-59486-467-5). 747. It's not every day that celebrities...

The Backwash Squeeze & Other Improbable Feats: A Newcomer's Journey into the World of Bridge.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The Backwash Squeeze & Other Improbable Feats: A Newcomer's Journey into the World of Bridge. By Edward McPherson. July 2007. 288p. HarperCollins, $23.95 (0-06-112764-7). 795.41. Like Anthony Holden's Big Deal (1990), this entertaining book...

Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race. By Nick Ward and Sinead O'Brien. Aug. 2007. 208p. illus. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-59691-455-6). 797.1. With journalist O'Brien's assistance, Ward offers all maritime buffs,...

Ten Points: A Father's Promise, a Daughter's Wish--How a Magical Season of Bicycle Riding Made It All Come True.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Ten Points: A Father's Promise, a Daughter's Wish--How a Magical Season of Bicycle Riding Made It All Come True. By Bill Strickland. July 2007. 256p. Hyperion, $23.95 (1-4013-0258-0). 796.609. When the executive editor of Bicycling told his...

Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume. Ed. by Jennifer O'Connell. June 2007. 288p. Pocket/Downtown, $23 (1-4165-3104-1). 813.54. "I remember how painful it was to be invisible to those other kids. And I...

I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature. By Lucia Perillo. June 2007. 256p. Trinity Univ., $24.95 (1-59534-031-9). 814. In her thirties, Perillo was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis--a difficult thing...

Fatherhood: Poems about Fathers.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Fatherhood: Poems about Fathers. Ed. by Carmela Ciuraru. June 2007. 256p. Everyman's Library, $12.50 (0-307-26458-0). 808.81. The first verse in this thematic anthology, "Golden slumbers kiss your eyes," gives us pause. Doesn't Paul...

Tugs in the Fog.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Tugs in the Fog. By Joan Margarit. Tr. by Anna Crowe. June 2007. 174p. Bloodaxe, paper, $26.95 (1-85224-751-7). 861.54. For American readers to whom Margarit is being introduced in English translation, the melancholy Catalan poet may seem...

How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer. By Vic Darkwood. July 2007. 256p. illus. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $19.95 (0-312-36692-2). 917.304. Humorist Darkwood offers travel tips for...

33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... 33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask. By Thomas E. Woods. July 2007. 272p. Crown Forum, $25.95 (0-307-34668-4). 973. Spread among current events and constitutional law, Woods' 33 questions extend his criticism of...

Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change. Ed. by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher. June 2007. 336p. New Press, $29.95 (9781595581327). 951.06. Can the promise represented by Chinas liberalized economy satisfy its citizens and...

Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press. By Edward Alwood. June 2007. 208p. Temple Univ., $21.95 (1-59213342-8). 973.921. Alwood's look back at the 1950s congressional investigations of Communist infiltration of the press...

In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... * In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century. By Geert Mak. Tr. by Sam Garrett. Aug. 2007. 896p. Pantheon, $35 (0-375-42495-4). 940.5. Sweeping in scope, brimmming with luxurious and telling detail, electric in prose style, and...

Desperate Engagement: How a Little Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Desperate Engagement: How a Little Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History. By Marc Leepson. June 2007. 304p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.95 (0-312-36364-8). 973.7. Old Glory was the topic of popular...

God's Gold: A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... God's Gold: A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem. By Sean Kingsley. June 2007. 320p. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-085400-6). 933. Indiana Jones would tip his hat to Kingsley, an intrepid archaeologist who has spent 15 years...

Guernica and Total War.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Guernica and Total War. By Ian Patterson. June 2007. 208p. illus. Harvard, $22.95 (0-67402484-2). 946.081. Seventy years ago, the Basque market town of Guernica was almost obliterated as the German Condor Legion attacked from the air....

In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia. By Ronald L. Spector. July 2007. 368p. Random, $27.95 (9780375509155). 950.4. Although some Allied political and military officials hoped the dropping of two...

Onward We Charge: The Heroic Story of Darby's Rangers in World War II.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Onward We Charge: The Heroic Story of Darby's Rangers in World War II. By Paul Jeffers. July 2007. 320p. NAL, $24.95 (9780451221285). 940.54. Journalist-turned-military-historian Jeffers here offers a useful, up-to-date study of Colonel...

A Sacred Landscape: The Search for Ancient Peru.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... A Sacred Landscape: The Search for Ancient Peru. By Hugh Thomson. June 2007. 376p. illus. Overlook, $27.95 (1-58567-901-1). 985. After traveling across Peru for more than two decades, writer and 'documentary filmmaker Thomson (White Rock,...

Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place. By Sudye Cauthen. Aug. 2007. 168p. illus. Univ. of Georgia, $29.95 (1-930066-58-9). 975. After her divorce and her father's death, Cauthen returns to Alachua, a small town north of Gainesville,...

Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold. By Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle. Aug. 2007. 304p. illus. Walker, $24.95 (0-80271497-8). 966. Timbuktu is a city in central Mali near the Niger River. Founded in the eleventh century by the...

A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency. By Glenn Greenwald. June 2007. Crown, $24.95 (0-307-35419-9). 973.931092. Bush's rise and fall are most evident in the 2002 election, which brought him control...

The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo. By Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins. Aug. 2007. 534p. Viking, $27.95 (9780670038640). 940.2. In the nineteenth century, the British created the greatest...

Way off the Road.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Way off the Road. By Bill Geist. 2007. 256p. Broadway, $23.95 (9780767922722). 973.924020. This year marks Geist's twentieth anniversary as an on-air correspondent for the CBS News program Sunday Morning, and by way of celebration, he...