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PRESERVATION HALL by William Carter (Norton; $29.95). From its beginnings on the site of an obscure French Quarter art gallery in the early 1960s, Preservation Hall became an internationally renowned Mecca for traditional New Orleans jazz. This lavishly illustrated volume chronicles the personalities and music behind one of the most stunning, and improbable, success stories in the history of American entertainment...
Sayles' works have a distinctive recipe: a thinly plotted story, complex characters and clever dialogue steeped in the author's characteristic 1960s- style concern for outsiders and underdogs. Politics, however, never gets in the way of getting things done. Thus Wynn Himes, the high-minded black councilman in City of Hope, reluctantly plays the down-and-dirty game of political hardball in order to gain power for his black constituents. "Basically," says Sayles, "I'm for whatever makes people's lives better and against what doesn...
...funded museum will push the barriers of good taste in its quest to create a sense of historical immediacy and emotional context for a jaded theme-park generation. "We estimate that 60% of those coming to the Civil Rights Museum will not have been old enough to remember the 1960s," explains exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold. "We are trying in the exhibits to give them a You Are There feeling...
IMMIGRATION. In Miami the roots of Latino-black antipathy date back to the arrival of thousands of refugees from Castro's Cuba during the 1960s. Many of the newcomers benefited from U.S. government programs that provided $1 billion worth of refugee-assistance payments and small-business loans. Even worse, the immigrants soon began taking most of the menial jobs in the tourist-hotel industry, the city's largest source of employment...
Even if ROBERT GATES shakes off the Iran-contra allegations that have stymied his chances to be head of the CIA, will his spy staff ever respect a guy who flunked Surveillance 101? When Gates was a young CIA trainee in the early 1960s, one of his early attempts to tail a suspect was notably unsuccessful, according to a former classmate. Gates was assigned to shadow a man in Richmond. But the local police became curious about the apprentice spy loitering on a street corner and hauled Gates in for questioning. Hours later, after a CIA instructor intervened, the spook...