Nonfiction in June 2000....
Staff -- Library Journal, 2/1/2000
BARRAS, Jonetta Rose. BINCHY, Maeve. BLOOM, Harold. BRADLEY, James with Ron Powers. CARTER, W. Hodding. the New World. DUE, Tananarive. Black Female Millionaire. KANFER, Stefan. KANLUK, Yoram. KLEBNIKOV, Paul. O'NAN, Stewart. POLLACK, William S. ROKER, Al. ROSEN, Jeffrey. STEIN, Harry. TAYLOR, Murray A. WILLS, Garry.
Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women.
Ballantine. May 2000. 272p.
ISBN 0-345-42246-5. $25.
Offering a personal perspective, journalist Barras (The Last of the Black Emperors) here identifies a "fatherless woman syndrome" that includes rage, addiction, and sexual acting-out.
Aches & Pains.
Delacorte. Jun. 2000. 96p.
ISBN 0-385-33510-5. $10.
A humorous account of surviving hospitalization, written after Binchy's hip replacement surgery.
How To Read and Why.
Scribner. Jun. 2000. 288p.
ISBN 0-684-85906-8. $25.
Advice on getting wrapped up in literature, from Shakespeare to Faulkner.
Flags of Our Fathers.
Bantam. Jun. 2000. 400p.
ISBN 0-553-11133-7. $24.95.
The story of those six young American flag raisers in the famed portrait of Iwo Jima, told by the son of one of the soldiers.
A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to
Ballantine. May 2000. 304p.
ISBN 0-345-42003-9. $25.
The popular journalist (e.g., Esquire) recounts his attempt, with 11 others, to re-create Leif Erikson's voyage to the New World in a Viking longboat.
The Black Rose: The Magnificent Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America's First
One World: Ballantine. Jun. 2000. 352p.
ISBN 0-345-43960-0. $25.95.
How the daughter of slaves made good. Journalist-turned-novelist Due picks up a story begun by Alex Haley.
Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx.
Knopf. Jun. 2000. 480p.
ISBN 0-375-40218-7. $30.
Former Time editor Kanfer examines the sorrow behind the laughter.
Commander of the Exodus.
Atlantic Monthly. May 2000. 208p.
ISBN 0-8021-1664-7. $25.
A celebrated Israeli novelist re-creates the story of the Exodus, which ran the British blockade to deliver Holocaust survivors to Palestine.
Godfather of the Kremlin: The Life and Time of Boris Berezovsky.
Harcourt. Jun. 2000. 353p.
ISBN 0-15-100621-0. $28.
Forbes senior editor Klebnikov, who has covered Russia for the last ten years, profiles Russian business magnate Berezovsky -- a suspected assassin, himself nearly the victim of a car bomb, who became Yeltsin's adviser. The pub date may slip as new information is added on recent changes in Russia's government.
The Circus Fire: A True Story.
Doubleday. Jun. 2000. 320p.
ISBN 0-385-49684-2. $24.95.
Celebrated novelist O'Nan re-creates the 1944 burning of a circus tent in Hartford, CT, which killed 167 people.
Real Boys' Voices.
Random. Jun. 2000. 224p.
ISBN 0-679-46299-6. $22.95.
In Real Boys, Pollack, codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, explained how to break the "boy code." Here, he lets boys voice their anger and confusion.
Don't Make Me Stop This Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood.
Scribner. Jun. 2000. 256p.
ISBN 0-684-86893-8. $24.
abridged. S. & S. Audio.
ISBN 0-7435-0028-8. $23.
That is, misadventures in fatherhood; from the popular NBC weatherman.
The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America.
Random. Jun. 2000. 288p.
ISBN 0-679-44546-3. $24.95.
From the legal affairs editor at the New Republic: how business and government monitor personal information.
How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace).
Delacorte. Jun. 2000. 304p.
ISBN 0-385-33396-X. $23.95.
A left-wing journalist/novelist becomes a right-wing dad.
Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire.
Harcourt. Jun. 2000. 400p.
ISBN 0-15-100589-3. $27.
Fighting wildfires -- since 1965.
Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit.
Doubleday. Jun. 2000. 304p.
ISBN 0-385-49410-6. $25.
No, not fornication and the Crusades but the Church's current rigidity.
