Nonfiction in September 2003…

History and politics dominate nonfiction; note that Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell's Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice, originally listed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/02, has been rescheduled for this month.

By Barbara Hoffert -- Library Journal, 5/15/2003

Coming in September 2003.big names from Forsyth and Grimes to Lahiri and Naslund, but look for a surprising number of new fiction writers for the busy fall season. History and politics dominate nonfiction; note that Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell's Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice, originally listed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/02, has been rescheduled for this month.

ALEXANDER, Caroline.
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on The Bounty.
Viking. Sept. 2003. 416p. ISBN 0-670-03133-X. $27.95.
Alexander sold 750,000 copies of The Endurance in hardcover alone, so following up with the tale of another shipboard tragedy was probably smart. A 15-city author tour; first serial to The New Yorker.

ANDERSON, Walter.
Meant To Be.
HarperCollins. Sept. 2003. 256p. ISBN 0-06-009906-2. $23.95.
Anderson had a real surprise when he returned from Vietnam; he learned that his real father was not the man who raised him but a POW with whom his mother had an affair. That didn't stop Anderson from becoming editor of Parade.

ARCHER, Jeffrey.
A Prison Diary.
St. Martin's. Aug. 2003. 288p. ISBN 0-312-32186-4. $24.95.
Convicted of perjury in 2001, best-selling novelist Archer spent the first few weeks of a four-year sentence at the high-security prison he describes here.

AYERS, Edward L.
In the Presence of Mine Enemy: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863.
Norton. Sept. 2003. 480p. ISBN 0-393-05786-0 $27.95.
Head of the 'Valley of the Shadow' project, a multidimensional work whose web site purportedly gets more hits than any other Civil War site, noted historian Ayers promises to change our view of that conflict.

BARRY, Dave.
Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism.
Crown. Sept. 2003. 256p. ISBN 0-4000-4757-9. $23.95.
The 'lies' are typical Barry humor, but there are also thoughtful columns on 9/11.

BERRA, Yogi.
Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons.
Morrow. Sept. 2003. 288p. ISBN 0-06-051381-0. $24.95.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-057002-4. $24.95.
Audio: abridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-056747-3. $25.95.
Berra boasts a championship ring for every finger-more than any other player. Here's how he won them.

BISSELL, Tom.
Chasing the Sea: Dispatches from Tashkent and Samarkand en Route to the Aral Sea.
Pantheon. Sept. 2003. 416p. ISBN 0-375-42130-0. $24.95.
After an aborted stint with the Peace Corps in mid-1990 Uzbekistan, Bissell felt compelled to return and investigate the ecological catastrophe surrounding the Aral Sea. With energetic Uzbek guide Rustam, the journey turned into a real escapade.

BRADLEY, James.
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage.
Little, Brown. Sept. 2003. 400p. ISBN 0-316-10584-8. $25.95.
Audio: abridged. Time Warner Audio. ISBN 1-58621-567-1. $25.98.
Audio: unabridged. Time Warner Audio. ISBN 1-58621-569-8. $39.98.
CD: abridged. Time Warner Audio. ISBN 1-58621-568-X. $31.98.
How can you follow up a blockbuster like Flags of Our Fathers? With a book that reveals what happened to seven U.S. airmen shot down over Chichi Jima and captured by Japanese troops, never to be seen again. An eighth airman who managed to escape happened to be named George H.W. Bush.

BRAUDY, Leo.
From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity.
Knopf. Sept. 2003. 448p. ISBN 0-679-45035-1. $30.
From chivalry to T.E. Lawrence to global terrorism, Braudy (The Frenzy of Renown) offers evidence that in European and American society, war has come to define men.

BURKE, James.
Twin Tracks: The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World.
S. & S. Sept. 2003. 288p. ISBN 0-7432-2619-4. $24.
In each of 25 chapters, popular science writer Burke starts out with a significant historical event, then shows how it led in two different directions that eventually merge in the present, giving us a new understanding of our world.

COLE, Keith.
Footnotes: What You Stand for Is More Important Than What You Stand In.
S. & S. Sept. 2003. 176p. ISBN 0-7432-4177-0. $30.
The founder and CEO of Kenneth Cole Productions writes about a company-and an ad campaign-that made history.

CONASON, Joe.
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth.
Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Sept. 2003. 240p. ISBN 0-312-31560-0. $24.95.
Liberals control the media? 'Big lies' like these come from the Right, claims Conason, best-selling author of The Hunting of the President.

GREENBERG, David.
Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image.
Norton. Sept. 2003. 384p. ISBN 0-393-04896-9. $26.95.
How-and why-Nixon has looked different to different people over time; from Columbia professor Greenberg.

GREIDER, William.
The Path to a Moral Economy: Reconstructing American Capitalism.
S. & S. Sept. 2003. 400p. ISBN 0-684-86219-0. $28.
Greider (Who Will Tell the People?) doesn't just tell us what's wrong with today's capitalism-e.g., stressed-out families, cheatin' CEOs-but offers some solutions. With a seven-city author tour.

KLUGMAN, Paul.
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.
Norton. Sept. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-393-05850-6. $25.95.
Never shy to speak up, New York Times columnist Klugman really takes his gloves off here.

LEHR, Dick & Mitchell Zuckoff.
Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders.
HarperCollins. Sept. 2003. 384p. ISBN 0-06-000844-X. $25.95.
Town-gown tensions writ large; from two investigative reporters.

MAYNARD, Micheline.
The End of Detroit: How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market.
Doubleday. Sept. 2003. 304p. ISBN 0-385-50769-0. $24.95.
Detroit's Big Three blew it in the 1990s by allowing themselves to be dazzled by SUVs when most Americans just wanted a safe, affordable car, claims a New York Times columnist who reports on the industry.

OUCHI, William G.
Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan To Get Your Children the Education They Need.
S. & S. Sept. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-7432-4630-6. $25.
Want to save American education? Then give talented principals control over budgets and personnel, claims Ouchi, after researching 223 schools in six cities.

PUTNAM, Robert D. & Lewis M. Feldstein with Don Cohen.
Better Together: Restoring the American Community.
S. & S. Sept. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-7432-3546-0. $26.95.
Putnam first caught our attention by documenting a crisis in American society-we're all Bowling Alone. Now he offers examples of some communities that are trying to bowl together again.

SILVER, Daniel B.
Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis.
Houghton. Sept. 2003. 256p. ISBN 0-618-25144-8. $24.
How 800 Jews survived the Holocaust in a Berlin hospital-with the help of its remarkable German Jewish director.

STERN, Jessica.
Terror in the Name of God.
Ecco: HarperCollins. Sept. 2003. 400p. ISBN 0-06-050532-X. $27.95.
A lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Public Policy, Stern spent four years talking to terrorists of all stripes to determine that recent terrorist organizations have been preempted by opportunists.

VAN SUSTERN, Greta & Elaine Rafferty.
My Turn at the Bully Pulpit: Straight Talk About the Things That Drive Me Nuts.
Crown. Sept. 2003. 304p. ISBN 0-4000-4662-9. $25.
Audio: abridged. Random. Audio. ISBN 0-7393-0653-7. $29.95.
Since van Sustern has a big hit with On the Record, her hour-long prime-time news program on Fox, does she really need a bully pulpit?

WOLFF, Geoffrey.
The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara.
Knopf. Sept. 2003. 400p. ISBN 0-679-42771-6. $30.
A noted novelist, also biographer of Harry Crosby, takes on a writer overshadowed by Hemingway and Fitzgerald.