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Job of the Week
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LSSI needs a creative and dynamic administrator to lead the recently reopened and revitalized Jackson County Library Services in Southwestern Oregon.
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Police: Lewiston PL's It's Perfectly Normal Not Obscene
Police have cleared the Lewiston Public Library, ME, of obscenity allegations stemming from its circulation of children's sexual health guide It's Perfectly Normal. A patron had removed the book and refused its return, claiming the title violated community standards.
IEEE's Plosker Among San Jose State's Top Alums
San Jose State U's library school has named George Plosker, IEEE client services manager, one of its "40 most influential alumni."
PW Names Perseus Publisher of the Year
For its purchase of the Avalon Publishing Group and rescue of 124 contracts left in limbo by PGW's bankruptcy, Publishers Weekly has crowned the Perseus Books Group Publisher of the Year!
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Wyatt's World: Reading and Viewing Art
- See: The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Read: The Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker (Three Rivers)
- See: Edward Hopper at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Read: Edward Hopper by Carol Troyen (MFA)
- See: Maps: Finding Our Place in the World at the Field Museum, Chicago
Read: Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations by Vincent Virga (Little, Brown)
- See: Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Read: Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund (Morrow)
- See: Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800-1815 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Read: The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe, and The Last Great Dance on Earth, by Sandra Gulland (Scribner)
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Religion/Magazine Reviewers Wanted
Readers interested in reviewing materials on all aspects of religion are invited to email a résumé and two writing samples to Mirela Roncevic at mroncevic@
reedbusiness.com. Additionally, readers interested in reviewing magazines and journals for LJ should send a résumé and two writing samples to Anna Katterjohn at anna.katterjohn@
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Steele, Shelby.
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win.
Free Pr: S. & S. Dec. 2007. c.160p.
ISBN 978-1-41655-917-7. $22. POL SCI
Wilson, John K.
Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest.
Paradigm. 2007. c.192p. photogs. index.
ISBN 978-1-59451-476-0. $22.95. POL SCI
Contemporary presidential campaigns produce a plethora of books, ranging from the unabashedly self-promoting autobiography to critical policy analysis. Regarding freshman U.S. Senator Barack Obama's quixotic (at least by conventional standards) quest for the Oval Office, these two books fall somewhere between those extremes. The more thought-provoking is Steele's, who argues that while he shares much in common with Obama, he's convinced that the senator cannot prevail in his White House race. In his brief polemic that almost appears as a literary jazzlike riff on U.S. politics, race relations, and contemporary sociology, Steele examines the significance and implications of Obama's candidacy, concluding that while it is historical—even iconic—he cannot
be elected because he is "a bound man," that although he seeks to transcend superficial racial identities, he is in a double bind, suspended between attempted black racial solidarity and white liberal guilt. Steele admires Obama yet questions his character and policy commitments.
If Steele is an Obama agnostic, Wilson, who studied law under Obama, is an Obama disciple. While Obama's candidacy is perhaps the "improbable quest" that he himself declared in his announcement speech in 2007, Wilson contends that Obama is the most electorally appealing progressive candidate, one who has truly sparked a grassroots movement. While Steele argues that race may be the downfall of Obama's campaign, Wilson counters that Obama, through his policy proposals and charisma, has transcended race in large measure, and, if elected in 2008, would help the country move further down the road toward what Martin Luther King called the beloved community. With caucuses and primaries fast upon us, we soon will find out which of these books proves the more deeply insightful. Neither is fully
persuasive but each is essential reading for anyone wishing to try to make more sense of contemporary American presidential politics and social policy. Highly recommended for all libraries.
—Stephen K. Shaw, Department of History and Political Science, Northwest Nazarene Univ., Nampa, ID
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| FICTION |
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
- You've Been Warned
James Patterson and Howard Roughan
- The Quickie
James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
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| NONFICTION |
- Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
- 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Don Piper
- Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
• Full List |
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