Book reviews: Non-Fiction 1997

Abbott, Berenice
Berenice Abbott -- Changing New York: The Complete WPA Project
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97
She took Manhatten, 11/23/97

Adams, Ansel
Ansel Adams' California
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Agosin, Marjorie
Ashes of Revolt: Essays on Human Rights
Going 'home' to Budapest, 1/19/97

Anderson, Jon Lee
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Revolution then, 5/11/97

Anno, Mitsumasa
Math Games
Presenting whales, a mummy, a rooftop garden, a lone eagle, 12/7/97

Antler, Joyce
The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century
From womanhood to Adams and the Aurora, 7/6/97

Appiah, Kwame Anthony
Gates Jr., Henry Louis
The Dictionary of Global Culture
Going 'home' to Budapest, 1/19/97

Arluke, Arnold
Sanders, Clinton R.
Regarding Animals
Going 'home' to Budapest, 1/19/97

Ash, Garton
The File: A Personal History
After the wall, 10/26/97

Barsky, Robert F.
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
Oh Chompsky, sanity, crime, and war, 3/16/97

Bawler, Bruce
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
The roots of the fundamentalists, 12/21/97

Berkow, Robert
Beers, Mark H.
Fletcher, Andrew J.
The Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition
All the aches, pains, maladies one could want, and more, 12/21/97

Benfey, Christopher
Degas in New Orleans
When the painter met the creoles, 11/30/97

Bennett, Michael
When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America
Books on the mind, the feelings, and on the winds of war, 1/26/97

Beschloss, Michael
Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964
Roll tape, 10/19/97

Beyer, Marcel
The Karnau Tapes
European novelists continue grappling anew with Nazi Era, 11/23/97

Borysenko, Joan
A Woman's Book of Like: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle
From womanhood to Adams and the Aurora, 7/6/97

Bridge, Marilyn
This Land is Your Land: Across America by Air
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Brudnoy, David
Life Is Not a Rehearsal
Saving his life, 1/5/97

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs
The Body Project
Where the girls are, 9/28/97

Buderi, Robert
The invention that Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution
Books on the mind, the feelings, and the winds of war, 1/26/97

Chinoy, Mike
China Live: Two Decades in the Heart of the Dragon
Venturing onward, 7/27/97

Coetzee, J.M.
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
Private Lives, 10/2/97

Coleman, Jonathan
Long Way to Go: Black and White in America
The color of change, 11/9/97

Collison, Gary
Shadrach Minkins
Up form slavery, 2/9/97

Crabtree, Charolette
Dunn, Ross E.
Nash, Gary B.
History on Trial
Who Owns History, 11/30/97

Daverio, John
Robert Schumann: Herald of 'New Poetic Age'
From womanhood to Adams and the Aurora, 7/6/97

Davies, Nicola
Maland, Nick
Big Blue Whale
Presenting whales, a mummy, a rooftop garden, a lone eagle, 12/7/97

Davis, Peter
The American Opera Singer
Voice of America, 12/21/97

Deacon, Terrence
The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
We think, therefore..., 11/9/97

Delbanco, Andrew
Required Reading
Riding to battle, again, in the academic culture wars, 9/21/97

Donald, David Herbert
Lincoln
Scenes from the lives: the seductions of biography, 9/7/97

Dwyer, Kevin
Ireland, Our Island Home
Best of Photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Epstein, Helen
Where She Came from : A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History
In the motherland, 12/14/97

Ezrahi, Yaron
Rubber Bullets
How the ideal of zionism evolved in the ongoing history of Israel, 2/9/97

Faas, Horst
Page, Tim
Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Fagen, Herb
Duke: We're Glad We Knew You
Duke of America, 2/23/97

Feliciano, Hector
The Lost Museum
The Great Art Robbery, 8/24/97

Fitch, Noel Riley
Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child
The all American chef, 10/19/97
In celebration oof a banana, a pineapple, and a pomme de terre, 10/12/97

Flem, Lyndia
Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women
A real casanova, 11/30/97

Francis, Richard
Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands and Walden
Views of the New England countryside, 6/22/97

French, Albert
Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption
The fields of battle, between armies, between father and son, 2/16/97

Fussell, Paul
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
The fields of battle, between armies, between father and son, 2/16/97

Garment, Leonard
Crazy Rhythm
True tales of Nixon from a boy in the band, 3/2/97

Gendzier, Irene L.
Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervation in Lebanon and the Middle East
Oh Chompsky, sanity, crime, and war, 3/16/97

Giblin, James Cross
Charles A. Lindbergh" A Human Hero
Presenting whales, a mummy, a rooftop garden, a lone eagle, 12/7/97

Gifford, Barry
The Phantom Father: A Memoir
With the proper selection, there's no need to fear the dark, 11/9/97

Goodwin, Doris Kearns
What Till Next Year
Dogers 'r' us, 10/12/97

Gormley, Ken
Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation
Before the deluge, 11/16/97

Graham, Billy
Just as I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham
Simple gifts, 8/24/97

Guth, Alan W.
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of the Cosmic Origins
Venturing onward, 7/27/97

Hagen, Margaret
Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of the American Justice System
Oh Chomsky, sanity, crime, and war, 3/16/97

Harlan, David
The Degradation of American History
Who owns history, 11/30/97

Hersh, Seymour M.
The Dark Side of Camelot
In Kennedy's Shadows, 11/23/97

Hill, L. Rust
How to Do Thinks Right
The books that truely help the self are not in the self-help section, 9/28/98

Hines, Lewis
Kids at Work: Lewis Hines Crusade against Child Labor
Men's work and child's work were the same, 9/28/98

Hobsbawm, Eric
On History
Who owns history, 11/30/97

Honnef, Klaus
Sachsse, Rolf
Thomas, Karin
German Photography 1870-1970: Power of a Medium
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Jacobson-Hardy, Michael
The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers & Workplaces
On the job, 1/26/97

Judd, Alan
Ford Madox Ford
Scenes from the lives: the seductions of biography, 9/7/97

Judd, Richard W.
Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in New England
Views of the New England countryside, 6/22/97

Kaiser, Charles
The Gay Metropolis
To be young and gay in old Manhattan, 11/23/97

Kanigel, Robert
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
Beat the clock, 6/15/97

Kincaid, Jamaica
My Brother
A death in the family, 11/2/97

Kotlowitz, Robert
Before Their Time
The field of battle, between armies, between father and son, 2/16/97

Kutler, Stanley
Abuse of Power : The New Nixon Tapes
Nixon was the one, 12/21/97

Kwitny, Jonathan
Man of the Century
The historic role of 'one man in a white robe', 11/23/97

LaFeber, Walter
The Clash
Star, stripes, and rising sun, 10/26/97

Larson, Edward J.
Summer for the Gods
Of monkeys and men, 8/3/97

Lax, Eric
A.M. Sperber
Bogart
Rounding up an unusual suspect, 4/27/97

Lear, Linda
Rachel Carson
In love with nature, 9/21/97

Lee, Herminone
Virgina Woolf
Scenes from the lives: the seduction of biography, 9/7/97

Leider, Emily Wortis
Becoming Mae West
In celebration of a banana, a pineapple, and a pomme de terre, 10/12/97

Lesy, Michael
Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Lionni, Leo
Between Both Worlds: The Autobiography of Leo Lionni
A master who believed in the meaning of each line, 11/2/97

Louvish, Simon
Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W.C. Fields
In celebration of a banana, a pineapple, and a pomme de terre, 10/12/97

Lukacs, John
The Hitler of History
The many Hitlers, 12/14/97

Maier, Pauline
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths, 6/29/97

Margulis, Lynn
Sagan, Dorion
What is Sex
The Itch of Ecstacy, 12/28/97

Maurensig, Paolo
The Lueneburg Variation
European novelists continue grappling anew with Nazi Era, 11/23/97

May, Ernest R.
Zelikow, Philip
The Kennedy Tapes
Roll tapes..., 10/19/97

McCabe, John
Cagney
A tough cookie who was really an introvert, 12/28/97

McLynn, Frank
Carl Gustav Jung
Analyzing Jung, 9/28/97

Mergen, Bernard
Snow in America
Snow, sleet, ice, frost, slush ..., 12/14/97

Meyers, Jeffery
Bogart: A Life in Hollywood
Rounding up an unusual suspect, 4/27/97

Michals, Duane
The Essential of Duane Michals
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Milton, Peter
Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996
The fine print, 2/23/97

Mosher, Howard Frank
North Country
On the line 'twixt states and provinces, 6/15/97

Moyes, Norman B.
Battle Eye: A History of American Combat Photography
Into the beack, 1/12/97

Niven, Penelope
Steichen: A Biography
Getting the picture, 12/28/97

Noble, David
The Religion of Technology
The scientific quest for salvation, 10/5/97

Nokes, David
Jane Austen: A Life
Looking for Jane, 11/23/97

Noll, Richard
The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung
Analyzing Jung, 9/28/98

Norwich, John Julius
A Short History of Byzantium
Zooming to Byzantium, 3/23/97

O'Connor, Thomas H.
Civil War Boston
On the Home front, 12/21/97

Oberdorfer, Don
Two Koreas
Forgotten peninsula, forgotten flashpoint, 11/16/97

Patterson, Orlando
The Ordeal of Integration
The great divide, 11/2/97

Peters, Margot
May Sarton
May Sarton unvarnished, 4/13/97

Peterson, Christian A
After Photo-Session: American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955
After Stieglitz, 3/16/97

Pinker, Steven
How the Mind Works
We thinks, therefore..., 11/9/97

Pinkhassov, Gueorgui
Magnum Landscape
The Earth below, 8/31/97

Plowden, David
Imprints: David Plowden: A retrospective
American made, 10/5/97

Rampersad, Arnold
Rampersand, Jackie
Jackie Robinson
Mister Robinson, 10/12/97

Real, Terrence
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
Books on the mind, the feelings, and on the winds of war, 1/26/97

Reed, Eli
Eli Reed: Black in America
Ordinary people, 2/16/97

Riboud, Mark
Mark Riboud in China: Forty Years of Photography
Middle kingdom, 6/22/97

Roberts, David
Escape Routes: Further Adventure Writings of David Roberts
Venturing onward, 7/27/97

Rose, Norman
Churchill: The Unruly Giant
Scenes from the lives: the seductions of biography, 9/7/97

Rosenfeld, Richard N.
American Aurora
From womanhood to Adams and the Aurora, 7/6/97

Russo, Carolyn
Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots
The birds, 4/20/97

Saville, Lynn
Acquainted with the Night
G'night, 7/6/97

Schaechter, Elio
In the Company of Mushrooms
A field guid to one biologist's love of mushrooms, 8/17/97

Schlessinger, Dr. Laura
Ten Stupid Things Men do to Screw Up Their Lives
The books that truely help the self are not in the self-help section, 9/28/97

Seabrook, John
Deeper: My Two Year Odyssey in Cyberspace
Lighting out for the cybertory, 2/9/97

Shesol, Jeff
Mutual Contempt
JFK, LBJ and the fall of liberalism, 11/9/97

Shipler, David K.
A Country of Strangers
The great divide, 11/2/97

Shorris, Earl
New American Blues
Finding a better future in the classical past, 11/23/97

Smith, Lacy Baldwin
Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World
To lay down a life, 7/13/97

Spoto, Donald
Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman
Her own woman, 8/10/97

Stanley, Jerry
Children of the Dusk Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Men's work and child's work were the same, 9/28/98

Stavans, Ilan
Art & Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination
Going 'home' to Budapest, 1/19/97

Stokes, Edward
Photography Book
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Suleiman, Susan Rubin
Budapest Diary: In Searhc of the Motherbook
Going 'home' to Budapest, 1/19/97

Swafford, Jan
Johannes Brahms: A Biography
The music man, 11/23/97

Szarkowski, John
Benson, Richard
A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories
La Mer, 12/21/97

Tallchief, Maria
Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
A muse of Balanchine, 4/13/97

Thernstrom, Stephan
Thernstrom, Abigail
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible
The color of change, 11/9/97

Thomas, Benjamin P.
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
Scenes from the lives: the seductions of biography, 9/7/97

Thomas, Hugh
The Slave Trade : The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870
Recalling the cruel horrors of the Atlantic slave trade, 12/14/97

Thompson, Jim
Bad Boy
With the proper selection, there's no need to fear the dark, 11/9/97

Thomsen, Moritz
My Two Wars
The fields of battle, between armies, between father and son, 2/16/97

Tomalin, Clarie
Jane Austen: A Life
Looking for Jane, 11/23/97

Tripp, Nathaniel
Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam
The fields of battle, between armies, between father and son, 2/16/97

Walker, Valerie
Daddy's Girls: Young Girls and Popular Culture
Where the girls are, 9/28/97

Walsh, Frank
Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry
Going 'home' to Budapest, 1/19/97

Westbeck, Colin
Irving Penn: Career in Photography
Best of photo books: from war to Ireland, 12/7/97

Wills, Gary
John Wayne's America
Duke of America, 2/23/97

Wilson, Charles McMoran
Baron Moran
Churchill: Taken form the Diaries of Lord Moran: The Struggle for Survival 1940-1965
Scenes from the lives: the seduction of biography, 9/7/97

Windschuttle, Keith
The Killing Of History
Who Owns History, 11/30/97

Wood, Joseph S.
The New England Village
Views of the New England Countryside, 6/22/97