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By Peter Mayle. 1991
Having settled in as a permanent visitor in Provence, Mayle continues his account of adventures in his adopted country. He…
describes going through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, attending a Pavarotti concert, finding two coins in the garden, and enjoying his fiftieth birthday bash. Sequel to A Year in Provence (DB 33617), Bestseller. 1991By Dominick Dunne. 1991
A collection of fifteen essays primarily about people who soared in the eighties. It was a decade that provided Dunne…
with numerous colorful subjects. They include the queen of Jordan, the only divorced wife of an American president, financial figures whose lifestyles landed them in jail, and people who overpaid for the Duchess of Windsor's jewels. BestsellerBy Tom Mangold. 1991
During the height of the Cold War, James Angleton was the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's counterintelligence staff. Although…
devoted to his employees, Angelton began a witch hunt for spies within the CIA after the defection of Kim Philby. 1991.By Jonathan Kozol. 1991
From 1988 to 1990, Kozol visited about thirty neighborhood schools in Chicago, East St. Louis, New York, San Antonio, and…
Washington, D.C. His picture of educational inequality, even within the same cities, is disturbing. He concludes that these disparities are caused by racism and calls upon educators to listen to what children say about the conditions under which they are educated. Bestseller. 1991By Molly Ivins. 1991
Ivins is a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald, which allows her to write about whatever she wants and to…
say whatever she wants. She aims mainly at Texas and its politics, but she also takes shots at nationally known figures. Her targets in this collection of more than fifty essays include Texas traditions, the Reagan and Bush administrations, and Texas women. Some strong language. BestsellerBy C. Everett Koop. 1991
Koop recalls the road he traveled from his Brooklyn boyhood, through Dartmouth and Cornell, to chief of pediatric surgery at…
Philadelphia's Children's Hospital and his appointment as surgeon general. He discusses key issues he faced as surgeon general. Which include AIDS, smoking, abortion, and infant and handicapped rights. He offers his views on major health concerns. Bestseller. 1991By Thomas Byrne Edsall, Thomas B. Edsall, Mary D Edsall. 1991
Covering the years 1964-1990, the authors explore the racial conflicts that allowed Republicans to retain control of the White House.…
Their major premise is that the chain reaction set off by the politics of race has helped Republicans overcome their image as party of the rich, thus garnering the votes of middle-class whites. BestsellerBy Dan Rather, Peter Wyden. 1991
By Thomas Hauser. 1991
Hauser states that his goal is to allow people to know the real Muhammad Ali--the man with a gentle and…
caring heart, a generous nature, and deep personal convictions that he strives to live up to every day. Hauser recounts Ali's life--from his youth in Louisville to his rebirth in the Islamic religion and his semi-retirement in Michigan--as told by family members and colleagues. BestsellerBy Sally Bedell Smith. 1990
Born in Chicago in 1901 to Jewish immigrants, Paley had by 1928 christened himself "Founding Chairman" of CBS--a collection of…
financially unstable radio stations. From that time on, he grabbed everything he could from life to satisfy his appetite for pleasure, including two wives, a string of lovers, and an extensive art collection. Bestseller. 1990By John Densmore. 1990
Founding Doors member and drummer chronicles the history of this popular rock group, dominated as it was by its superstar…
lead singer, Jim Morrison. Densmore has some personal adjusting to do as he moves from his middle-class, strict upbringing through five years with the band. But the same Morrison who once inspired him now haunts him. Strong language. BestsellerBy Sam Keen. 1991
Keen states that his book is an effort to get inside the dilemmas, delights, confusions, and cares of modern men.…
According to Keen, each man is a quest to find the grail of manhood. His suggestions for reaching that goal call for men to separate themselves from the world of women and to refine their vision of an appropriate vocation. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy Paul Harvey. 1991
A collection of "humorous hometown experiences" broadcast during the "For What It's Worth" section of Harvey's radio show. Includes stories…
about fire helmets of high-impact plastic, adjustable in size, that melt when near heat; car buyers, urged to buy American, who get chances on a Japanese motorcycle; the man who quit jogging because the wind blew out his cigarette; and a Ronald McDonald who robbed Burger King. BestsellerBy Alex Kotlowitz. 1991
Explores two years in the world of Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers as they grow up in a Chicago housing project.…
At ten, Lafeyette often assumes an adult role, trying to be both supportive and helpful. And at seven, Pharoah prefers the life of the mind, seeking escape from the harsh reality of their living conditions. The focus is on the forces that conspire to crush their lives. Bestseller. 1991By Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap. 1990
Jackson was born into a poor rural Alabama family in 1962. He learned how to steal at a young age,…
but the one thing he could never steal was a father. After a youth spent in anger, and under constant threat of being sent to reform school, he finally changed his ways in junior high. Now he is a well-respected husband and father, and a star of football and baseball. BestsellerBy Robert B. Reich, Robert B Reich. 1991
Reich believes the days of "national" products are ending and "all that will remain rooted within national borders are the…
people who comprise a nation." Thus the nation's primary assets will be its citizens and their skills. Reich describes the economic transformation taking place in the 1990s and the need to provide equal educational training to all citizens. BestsellerBy Jeri Chase Ferris, Jeri Ferris. 1989
Matthew Henson, at age nineteen, had become a master of the sea and an educated young man in the late…
1800s. But when he tried to find work using his expert skills, he could not. Henson was a black man and America segregated the races. He became the servant of Robert Peary, a navy engineer who dreamed of discovering the North Pole. Henson would become Peary's "most nearly indispensable man." For grades 3-6By Eric Lax. 1991
A long- term associate of the very private Allen traces the life and work of the artist. Allen's portrayal of…
himself as a neurotic and inept misfit is well-known through his movies. This author is the first to gain access as Allen pursues his roles as a screenwriter, actor, filmmaker, and director. His portrait includes Allen's involvement as a jokesmith and standup comic, a musician, and a magician. Bestseller. 1991By Dinesh D'Souza. 1991
An American Enterprise Institute fellow analyzes admissions policies, multiculturalism, the roots of protest, racial incidents, the disintegration of academic standards,…
and considerations of race and gender at American universities. He decries the decline of the study of Western civilization, and refutes the benefits of affirmative action. Bestseller