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...that confidence that enables her to be both the thoroughbred who works like a dray and the Oscar perennial who shows off her breasts. It's the same instinct that told her what to do when Titanic became a global cultural obsession, transforming her from the daughter of actors making her way up the film food chain to an international symbol of young, reckless, undying love. She fled. She made a string of the least commercially appealing films imaginable, featuring wayward mothers, weird cults, memory loss and the Marquis de Sade. In fact, the 13 films she has appeared...
...Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy, by James S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin; 358 pages; $25), is a quietly devastating account of Tulsa's two-day convulsion of blood and of the struggle years later to return the riot to living memory through a commission of inquiry. Philip Dray's At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House; 528 pages; $35) is a powerful history of a practice so common by the turn of the 20th century that "spectacle lynchings" were announced in advance in Southern newspapers. You don't really know what lynching...
...Dray, who has taught at the New School in New York City, provides what is essentially a history of racism in the 100 years after the Civil War, when blacks were set free into a society that instantly contrived new ways to confine, exploit and humiliate them. Lynching became the semiofficial machinery by which the racial caste system was held in place. "We will not endure it forever," W.E.B. DuBois, co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P., warned after one grotesque burning. "If we are to die, in God's name let us perish like men and not like bales...
...STRANGE FRUIT: Kirkus and PW are overwhelmed by "At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America" by Philip Dray (Random House; January 22), both giving the book a starred review. Says Kirkus: "The ghastly story of lynching, by the coauthor of 'We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi'...This is history most fundamental, the kind that forces us to ponder the very nature of humanity." PW agrees: "Prodigiously researched, tightly written and compelling history of the lynching of African-Americans...Dray balances moral indignation with a sound...
...finals of his dray, Friedman defeated Worcester Polytechnic Institute's George Chu, a two-time Division III All-American...