Publishers Weekly articles from January 2001

Publishers Weekly archives from January 2001

[0] February Publications.(Review)
January 29, 2001... Tales of preachers' kids who rebel and then eventually convert to the faith of their fathers are a dime a dozen, and Live the Adventure: Experience the Excitement of Encountering God and Living in His Love Forever fits the standard mold. The...

7B.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... STELLA CAMERON. Mira, $6.99 448p) ISBN 1-55166-795.9 In Cameron's third Regency set at 7 May-fair Square (following All Smiles), 28-year-old Sibyl Smiles resolves to have a child without the hindrance of a husband. Her dilemma lies in...

ATLANTIS: Devil's Sea.(Review)
January 29, 2001... GREG DONEGAN. Berkley, $6.99 (320p) ISBN 0-425-17859-5 It may seem unlikely that a combination thriller/fantasy/pro-ecological/historical romance would have any resonance, much less coherence, but that is exactly what readers will find...

ONE NATION... INDIVISIBLE?(Review)
January 29, 2001... SARA S. CHAPMAN AND URSULA S. COLBY. State Univ. of New York, $59.50 (256p) ISBN 0-7914-4837-1; paper $19.95 -4838-X In a provocative but undisciplined work, Chapman, former president of The Sage Colleges and visiting resident...

LINUS PAULING, SCIENTIST AND PEACEMAKER: A Centenary Volume.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... EDITED BY CLIFFORD MEAD AND THOMAS HAGER. Oregon State Univ., $35 (288p) ISBN 0-87071-489-9 When Linus Pauling was nine, his father proclaimed proudly his son's voracious reading appetite and his keen interest in ancient history and the...

NAPOLEON AND HIS COLLABORATORS: The Making of a Dictatorship.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... ISSER WOLOCH. Norton, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 0393-05009-2 The principal contention of this work by Columbia University historian Woloch (The New Regime) is that the nature of Napoleon's regime can best be seen by examining the careers of the...

MAMA PROVI AND THE POT OF RICE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
January 29, 2001... SYLVIA ROSA-CASANOVA, ILLUS. BY ROBERT ROTH. S&S/Aladdin, $5.99 ISBN 0-689-84249-X. "Friendly faces and the warm exchanges between characters take center stage in each spread, creating a truly neighborly mood," said PW of this story about bow...

A SMALL TALL TALE FROM THE FAR FAR NORTH.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
January 29, 2001... PETER SIS. FSG/Sunburst, $6.95 ISBN 0-374-46725-0. In a starred review of this story about a maybe-real, maybe-fictitious Czech explorer, PW said, "readers are borne rapturously along on Sis's exquisitely intricate artwork." Ages 6-up. (Apr.)

Paperback Bestsellers.(Bibliography)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
January 29, 2001... Paperback Bestsellers LAST WEEKS Mass Market WEEK ON LIST 1 The Brethren. John Grisham. 1 4 Dell Island, $7.99...

Hardcover Bestsellers.(Bibliography)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
January 29, 2001... Hardcover Bestsellers LAST WEEKS Fiction WEEK ON LIST 1 A Day Late and a Dollar Short. Terry McMillan. ...

February Publications.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Stefano Luconi delivers a compelling study of 20th-century identity politics in From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia. Focusing on key historical moments ("World War I... offered... Italians and Italian...

Therese of Lisieux.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... The writings of St. Therese of Lisieux have influenced thousands of people, including American Catholic convert Dorothy Day and Pope John Paul II, who made a pilgrimage to Lisieux in her honor in 1980. Of late there has been a rekindled...

Spiritual Healing.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Dr. Harold Koenig, founder of the Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health at Duke University Medical Center, advocates the power of spiritual healing in The Healing Connection: A World-Renowned Medical Scientist Explores the...

Catholicism Through the Ages.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Two millennia of Catholic thought are distilled in Teresa de Bertodano's graceful compendium, The Book of Catholic Wisdom: 2,000 Years of Spiritual Writing. Bertodano perceptively arranged the volume's quotes and prayers according to theme,...

CROCO'NILE.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
January 29, 2001... ROY GERRARD. FSG/Sunburst, $5.95 ISBN 0-374-41611-7. In a starred review, PW called this Egyptian tale "an innovative amalgam of ancient history lesson, introduction to hieroglyphics and fanciful story." Ages 5-8. (Apr.)

DANCING IN THE CADILLAC LIGHT.(Review)
January 29, 2001... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT. Putnam, $15.99 (176p) ISBN 0-399-23402-1 Holt's (When Zachary Beaver Came to Town) latest novel opens in the summer of 1968 in Moon, Tex., and captures a child's sense that time stretches endlessly before her....

BLIND BEAUTY.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... K.M. PEYTON. Dutton, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 0-525-46652-5 When Tessa's parents split up and she is torn from the side of Shiner, the eyeless mare she has doted on since early childhood, Tessa grows into an angry and rebellious spitfire....

FREEWILL.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... CHRIS LYNCH. HarperCollins, $15.95 (160p) ISBN 0-06-028176-6 Despite the redemptive themes suggested by its title and its division into three sections expansively entitled "Faith," "Hope" and "Charity," Lynch's (Whitechurch) latest novel...

Bound for Antarctica.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Two books adopt a journal format to explore the South Pole. Author Meredith Hooper and artist Lucia deLeris chronicle their trip south in Antarctic Journal: The Hidden Worlds of Antarctica's Animals. Beginning in Boston in autumn with a...

Books Geared for Girls.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Several books aimed at girls cover everything from birth to biography. My Girl Power Journal by Kelli Chipponeri, illus. by Shelly Meridith, begins with a blank page for baby pictures and places to fill in birth statistics and makes room to...

They're Back!(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Established characters appear in two picture book adaptations. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery is adapted by M.C. Helldorfer, illus. by Ellen Beier. This adaptation is most fluid in the beginning, when Mr. Cuthbert conies to pick up a...

You're Not Alone.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Divided into two parts, the first "For girls and boys," the second for parents, For Better, For Worse: A Guide to Surviving Divorce for Preteens and Their Families by Janet Bode and Stan Mack offers quotes from children who have lived through...

TOP CAT.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
January 29, 2001... LOIS EHLERT. Harcourt/Voyager, $6 ISBN 0-15-202425-5. A new cat in the house threatens the top cat -- until he turns mentor. PW wrote, "Children and other feline fans will quickly warm to this spunky story of rivalry and acceptance." Ages...

SOLDIER X.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... DON WULFFSON. Viking, $15.99 ISBN O-670-88863-X * Wulffson (Point Blank; The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle) poses haunting questions of allegiance, not only for his characters but for readers, with this behind-enemy-lines look at WWII....

FLOODLAND.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MARCUS SEDGWICK. Delacorte. $15.95 (144p) ISBN 0-385-32801-X British illustrator Sedgwick's futuristic first novel begins with an interesting premise -- that global warming has caused the seas to rise, submerging whole sections of England...

HATSHEPSUT: His Majesty, Herself.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... CATHERINE M. ANDRONIK, ILLUS. BY JOSEPH DANIEL FIEDLER. S&S/Atheneum, $17 (40p) ISBN 0-689-82562-5 Andronik (Quest for a King: Searching for the Real King Arthur) pieces together a thoughtful biography of "ancient Egypt's only successful...

ODD GODS: New Religions and the Cult Controversy.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... EDITED BY JAMES R. LEWIS. Prometheus, $33 (425p) ISBN 1-57392-842-9 (New Religious Movements/Sociology) This valuable compendium of data about religious minority groups, many of which have been branded as "cults" by the media, challenges...

LOVE IS...(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... WENDY ANDERSON HALPERIN. Simon & Schuster, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-689-82980-9 * Adapting the apostle Paul's definitions of love in I Corinthians 13, Halperin (Hunting the White Cow) combines Paul's words with an intricate mosaic of...

BECAUSE NOTHING LOOKS LIKE GOD.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... LAWRENCE KUSHNER AND KAREN KUSHNER, ILLUS. BY DAWN M. MAJEWSKI. Jewish Lights, $16.95 ISBN 1-58023-092-X Lawrence Kushner (The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spiritual Awareness) and Karen Kushner (contributor to How...

A STOWAWAY ON NOAH'S ARK.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... CHARLES SANTORE. Random, $16.95 ISBN 0-679-88820-9 What if a stowaway secretly upped the head count on Noah's Ark? That's the crux of Santore's (The Wizard of Oz) imaginative retelling of the Bible story. All the familiar elements are...

BROTHER WOLF OF GUBBIO: A Legend of Saint Francis.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... COLONY ELLIOTT SANTANGELO. Handprint (718-768-3696), $15.95 (32p) ISBN 1-929766-07-6 Some unnecessary embellishing reduces the drama in this adaptation of the legend of Saint Francis of Assisi's taming of a fierce wolf. Debut...

PATHS OF FAITH: Conversations About Religion and Spirituality.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MICHAEL THOMAS FORD. Simon & Schuster, $17 (272p) ISBN 0-689-82263-4 Bringing the interdenominational approach of such anthologies as Reeve Lindbergh's In Every Tiny Grain of Sand to an older and more critical audience, Ford (Outspoken:...

LIVE IN A BETTER WAY: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA, COMPILED AND EDITED BY RENUKA SINGH. Viking Compass, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 0-670-89671-3 (Buddhism/Practice) The packaging of talks given by the Dalai Lama has become a publishing staple in the last decade. Here...

YOUR GOD IS TOO SAFE: Finding Passion in the Heart of Complacency.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MARK BUCHANAN. Multnomah, $12.99 paper (240p) ISBN 1-57673-774-8 (Evangelical Christianity/Spirituality) Canadian pastor and first-time author Buchanan says that he "hit the ground running" when he first became a Christian. He got...

ZEN GIFTS TO CHRISTIANS.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... ROBERT KENNEDY. Continuum, $18.95 (144p) ISBN 0-8264-1282-3 (Zen Buddhism, Christianity/Interfaith Dialogue) Kennedy is a Jesuit who teaches theology at St. Peter's College, a psychotherapist in private practice and a Zen teacher who...

AT HOME IN THE COSMOS.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... DAVID TOOLAN. Orbis, $25 (256p) ISBN 1-57075-341-5 (Christianity/Science) Toolan, associate editor of America magazine, surveys the rapprochement between religion and science, not for its own sake but to illuminate questions of...

THE WAY INTO ENCOUNTERING GOD IN JUDAISM.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... NEIL GILLMAN. Jewish Lights, $21.95 (176p) ISBN 1-58023-025-3 (Judaism/Theology) * This audacious exploration of the Jewish concept of God squarely faces many contradictions and conundrums. Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at...

DOING WELL AND DOING GOOD: Money, Giving and Caring in a Free Society.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Os GUINNESS. NavPress, $15 paper (328p) ISBN 1-57683-161-2 (Evangelical Christianity/Economics) The latest installment in NavPress's Trinity Forum Study Series, this impressively wide-ranging examination of charity and philanthropy is...

SEEDS OF GRACE: A Nun's Reflections on the Spirituality of Alcoholics Anonymous.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MOLLY MONAHAN. Riverhead, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 1-57322-175-9 (Spirituality/Recovery) * Much attention has been paid in re cent years to the spiritual underpinnings of that quiet fellowship known as Alcoholics Anonymous and its famous...

GOING ON BEING: Buddhism and the Way of Change.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MARK EPSTEIN. Broadway, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 0-7679-0460-5 (Buddhism/Psychology) Psychiatrist Epstein revisits territory he explored in his earlier books, Thoughts Without a Thinker and Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart....

SOUL PRINTS: Your Path to Fulfillment.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MARC GAFNI. Pocket, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-7434-1699-6 (Spirituality/Self Help) * Just as fingerprints are unique, so, too, says Rabbi Gafni, are soul prints: each human soul has an individual mark that it leaves behind on everyone it...

THE CONNECTING CHURCH: Beyond Small Groups to Authentic Community.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... RANDY FRAZEE. Zondervan, $16.95 (256p) ISBN 0-310-23308-9 (Christianity/Church Life) Pastor and consultant Frazee begins with a problem that many church leaders admit only hesitantly: small groups, widely hailed as a means to achieve...

SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME: A Prophetic Look at God's Unfolding Plan.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... RICK JOYNER. Thomas Nelson, $14.99 paper (228p) ISBN 0-7852-6784-0 (Charismatic Christianity/Prophecy) Charismatic Christian author Joyner (The Final Quest and The Call) draws upon years of research into church history to warn modern...

THE COMMITTEE OF SLEEP: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving and How You Can Too.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... DEIRDRE BARRETT. Crown, $24 (288p) ISBN 0-8129-3241-2 Taking her title from John Steinbeck, who once wrote that "a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it," Barrett gathers...

KINDRED SPIRITS: How the Remarkable Bond Between Humans & Animals Can Change the Way We Live.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... ALLEN M. SCHOEN. Broadway, $25 (352p) ISBN 0-7679-0430-3 Invoking the "mystical, magical, or meta-physical" aspects of our relationships with animals, veterinarian Schoen (Love, Miracles and Animal Healing) recounts his dawning awareness...

BEST FRIENDS: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... SAMANTHA GLEN, INTRO. BY MARY TYLER MOORE. Kensington, $15 paper (304p) ISBN 1-57566-735-5 The largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the country, Best Friends houses between 1,800 and 3,000 creatures--from dogs, rabbits and birds to sheep,...

BIRTHPLACE OF THE WINDS: Storming Alaska's Islands of Fire and Ice.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JON BOWERMASTER. National Geographic Adventure, $26 (304p) ISBN 0-7922-7506-3 Bowermaster (The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa) admits that he is known "more as a 'writer' than as an 'adventurer.' "And indeed, his...

SONGS OF THE UNSUNG: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... HORACE TAPSCOTT, EDITED BY STEVEN ISOARDI. Duke, $24.95 (260p) ISBN 0-8223-25314 He could've been a star, but instead became a catalyst, warming people with his expressive music and fiery social activism. This raw, intimate autobiography...

A TIME WELL SPENT.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... LAWRENCE S. FREUNDLICH. Welcome Rain, $24.95 (232p) ISBN 1-56649-173-8 In this biography of restaurateur Jerome Brody, Freundlich (president of New York book packager Freundlich Communications) brings to the fore the man originally...

Trips to Paradise.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Barrie Kerper's Provence: The Collected Traveler provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the area before they travel there. Although some have described her as an obsessive collector of articles, books and other resources with...

CULTIVATING COMPASSION: A Buddhist Perspective.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JEFFREY HOPKINS, FOREWORD BY HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA. Broadway, $19.95 (176p) ISBN 0-7679-0499-0 (Buddhism/Ethics) "Jeffrey Hopkins is an old persona] friend who has been of great help to me as an interpreter," writes the Dalai Lama...

THE ART OF INNOVATION: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... TOM KELLEY WITH JONATHAN LITTMAN. Doubleday/Currency, $26 (304p) ISBN 0-385-49984-1 * "Routine is the enemy of innovation," declares Kelley, general manager of IDEO, in this lively and practical guide to nurturing that elusive...

MOLIERE: A Theatrical Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... VIRGINIA SCOTT. Cambridge Univ., $54.95 (334p) ISBN 0-521-78281-3 As the first substantive English-language biography of Moliere since 1930, this is a happy arrival for students of the theater and of French literature and culture. In...

THUS SPAKE THE CORPSE: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988--1998 Volume 2--Fictions, Travels & Translations.(Review)
January 29, 2001... EDITED BY ANDREI CODRESCU AND LAURA ROSENTHAL. Black Sparrow, $17.50 paper (485p) ISBN 1-57423-141-3 Aptly known as "the anti-literary literary magazine" (read anti--New Yorker), Exquisite Corpse, edited by prolific writer and translator...

FAMILIAR SPIRITS: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... ALISON LURIE. Viking, $22.95 (192p) ISBN 0-670-89459-1 Novelist Lurie's brief, disturbing memoir covers her four decades of acquaintance with the important American poet Merrill (1926-1995) and his longtime partner, Jackson. Lurie grew...

MALLARME IN PROSE.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... EDITED BY MARY ANN CAWS. New Directions, $14.95 paper (144p) ISBN 0-8112-1451-6 While Stephane Mallarme wrote as much prose as poetry, little of that side of his writing has made its way into English. Caws (who also edited Stephane...

THE OTHER SIDE OF EDEN: Life with John Steinbeck.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JOHN STEINBECK IV & NANCY STEINBECK. Prometheus, $27 (350p) ISBN 1-57392-858-5 The title conveys the dual focus of this memoir: "life with John Steinbeck" refers both to the famous American novelist as seen by his son, and to Nancy...

MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... BARBARA CARSON. Viking, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-670-86660-1 * In this high-concept book, Garson (The Livelong Day) puts her publisher's advance against royalties into a local bank account and a mutual fund, then sets out to trace "a few...

DEATH OF AN OVERSEER: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MICHAEL WAYNE. Oxford Univ., $39.95 (240p) ISBN 0-19-514003-6 Elements of class privilege, social ambition, interracial sex and violent death lend the flavor of a mystery to this crime story-cum-history about the brutal murder of an...

ORPHAN TRAINS: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... STEPHEN O'CONNOR. Houghton Mifflin, $26 (384p) ISBN 0-395-84173-9 From 1854 to 1929, an estimated 250,000 children were "emigrated" out of "vice-ridden" urban areas and put up for grabs in the West, where labor was in short supply. Brace...

AN AMERICAN FAMILY.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JON AND MICHAEL GALLUCCIO WITH DAVID GROFF. St. Martin's $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-312-26123-3 Written by two gay men whose court challenge helped rewrite New Jersey law to allow joint adoption by unmarried couples, this moving, often funny...

IF MEN COULD TALK: Here's What They'd Say.(Review)
January 29, 2001... ALON GRATCH. Little, Brown. $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-316-17861-6 Women drawn to this book by its promise to unlock men's secrets will find that following Gratch's premise requires more effort and sophistication than following the work of John...

PW Talks with Stacy Horn.(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 29, 2001... PW: The dust jacket of Waiting for My Cats to Die (speaks to a predominantly single, middle-aged female audience. Do you hope to break out of this readership and reach another demographic, or did you write this book specifically for that...

ME AND TED AGAINST THE WORLD: The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... REESE SCHONFELD. HarperCollins/Cliff St., $25 (416p) ISBN 0-06-019746-3 "CNN is my invention," proclaims Schonfeld at the outset of this entertaining, vindictive memoir of founding the world's first 24-hour news network with media mogul...

WAITING FOR MY CATS TO DIE: A Memoir.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... STACY HORN, St. Martin's $22.95 (288p) ISBN 0-312-26692-8 Horn, a cyber-pioneer who launched Echo, a successful Gotham-based online community in the early '90s (and documented it in 1997'S Cyberville), assembles haphazard thoughts on her...

DARK REMEDY: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... TRENT STEPHENS AND ROCK BRYNNER. Perseus, $26 (240p) ISBN 0-7382-0404-8 * Thalidomide, the drug notorious for causing deformities in infants during the late 1950s and early '60s, has been hack in the news--amazingly, it has been found...

BURIED ALIVE: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JAN BONDESON. Norton, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 0-393-04906-X "The huge modern textbooks on forensic medicine.., choose to ignore the fact that less than 150 years ago many medical practitioners freely admitted to being uncertain whether...

MAN MADE: A Memoir of My Body.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... KEN BAKER. Putnam, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 1-58542-083-2 Describing the locker-room banter of his college hockey team, Baker writes, "They don't realize how lucky they are. If they like a girl, just about the only thing stopping them from...

DEFENDING ANDY: One Mother's Fight to Save Her Son from Cancer and the Insurance Industry.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MARILYN AZEVEDO. Health Communications, $12.95 paper (340p) ISBN 1-55874-906-3 In this deeply affecting memoir, Azevedo, a registered nurse and speaker for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, details the years her son spent battling cancer....

SMART COUPLES FINISH RICH: Nine Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... DAVID BACH. Broadway, $25 (256p) ISBN 0-7679-0483-4 Bach, author of the bestselling Smart Women Finish Rich and host of a popular PBS series, offers his advice on how couples can keep their financial lives in sync. Familiar financial...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE ROAD TO EMANCIPATION, 1861-65.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... WILLIAM K. KLINGAMAN. Viking, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 0-670-86754-3 On January 1, 1863, Lincoln declared free all slaves found in states rebelling against the Union. This epochal event is popularly regarded as the definitive triumph of...

BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Ghost of Madness 1921-1970.(Review)
January 29, 2001... RAY MONK. Free Press, $40 (574p) ISBN 0-7432-1215-0 Monk offers the second and culminating volume of his biography of the philosopher and controversialist. Russell's original contributions to mathematics and logic by 1914 had established...

THE GREAT HEDGE OF INDIA: The Search for the Living Barrier That Divided a People.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... ROY MOXHAM. Carroll & Graf, $22 (256p) ISBN 0-7867-0840-9 Moxham, a British library conservator, chanced one day on a book describing a giant hedge, running east to west, 2,500 miles long and six to 12 feet thick, and guarded by 12,000...

GODDESSES IN OLDER WOMEN: How to Be a Green and Juicy Crone--Archetypes in Women over Fifty.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JEAN SHINODA BOLEN. HarperCollins, $25 (256p) ISBN 0-06-019152-X Recycling a format she successfully employed in Goddesses in Everywoman (1984), Bolen, the author of seven works of Jungian psychology, addresses an older audience, urging...

MARGINALIA: Readers Writing in Books.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... H.J. JACKSON. Yale, $27.95 (314p) ISBN 0-300-08816-7 It's difficult to imagine a scholarly enterprise easier to mock than a study of marginalia, the marks left behind by readers making their way through a text. Few readers pause to...

BEFORE THE STORM: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... RICK PERLSTEIN. Hill and Wang, $25 (656p) ISBN 0-8090-2859-X In the 1964 presidential campaign, LBJ ate Barry Goldwater for lunch and thereby, according to the pundits, stuck a fork in the heart of American conservatism. But Goldwater's...

THE FOUR SEASONS.(Review)
January 29, 2001... MARY ALICE MONROE. Mira, $6.50 (416p) ISBN 1-55166-789-4 A familiar formula receives skillful handling in this heartfelt family drama involving three sisters--feisty European model Jilly, authoritative pediatrician Birdie and reclusive...

AMERICA'S UNDECLARED WAR: What's Killing Our Cities and How We Can Stop It.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... DANIEL LAZARE. Harcourt, $26 (384p) ISBN 0-15-100552-4 "I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man," said Thomas Jefferson, voicing a concern of many early Americans about the moral-and,...

TRUE BLUE: The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Told by the Men Who Lived It.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... STEVE DELSOHN. Morrow, $24 (288p) ISBN 0-380-977559 Delsohn traces the storied Dodgers, arguably the greatest franchise in National League history, from the time they left Brooklyn in 1957 to the present. He includes highlights, like...

ARCTIC CROSSING: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JONATHAN WATERMAN. Knopf, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 0-375-40409-0 In 1997, Waterman (In the Shadow of Denali) embarked on a series of solo journeys across the arctic, taking the southernmost water route through Canada's northern islands. During...

STOLEN LIVES: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MALIKA OUFKIR AND MICHELE FITOUSSI. Talk Miramax [Hyperion, dist.] $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-7868-6732-9 While accounts of the unjust arrest and torture of political prisoners are by now common, we expect such victims to come with a just...

EDWARD THE CARESSER: The Playboy Prince Who Became Edward VII.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... STANLEY WEINTRAUB. Free Press, $28 (416p) ISBN 0-684-853-18-3 Following successful biographies of Victoria and Albert, Weintraub turns to their son and heir, a young man he describes as "a walking argument for the defects of...

THE MERELY PERSONAL: Observations on Science and Scientists.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JEREMY BERNSTEIN. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (256p) ISBN 1-56663-344-3 In this collection of 13 essays, some original, some previously published in the American Scholar, Commentary and elsewhere, Bernstein, a theoretical physicist and veteran...

KANT: A Biography.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MANFRED KUEHN. Cambridge Univ., $34.95 (552p) ISBN 0-521-49704-3 For opposite reasons, Kant's life (1724-1804) and ideas are equally difficult to expound engagingly: the ideas, because of their philosophical complexity; the life, because...