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Experts on bicultural adoptions have learned such lessons from years of experience. Susan Soon-keum Cox, 50, who works for Holt International, the oldest overseas-adoption agency in the U.S. and the organization that arranged her own adoption from South Korea in 1956, learned them firsthand. She was adopted by Oregon dairy farmers Marvin and Jane Gourley in the earliest wave of babies brought into American homes and hearts after the Korean War. The Gourleys dealt with their daughter's Asian identity in a way that reflected the thinking of the time: they loved her unconditionally and encouraged...
...back at a bookstore near you sometime soon. A beardless Al Gore, with Tipper at his side, regaled booksellers at BEA with jokes about his reduced station in life. The Gores were talking up their two new books, "Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family" (Holt; November 12) and "The Spirit of Family" (Holt; November 12). In January, losing veep candidate Joseph Lieberman and wife Hadassah will share their observations about the 2000 campaign in "An Amazing Journey...
...paperback edition of "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich is being published this month by Holt...
David Letterman used to do a segment on his show called "Brush with Greatness," in which an audience member recalled a fleeting encounter with a famous person--say, bumping into Joan Rivers on an elevator. American Son (Henry Holt & Co.; 294 pages), the much anticipated memoir of John F. Kennedy Jr., by Richard Blow, feels a little like an extended literary version of this, as Blow unearths every last encounter with his subject, as if to say, I knew him; I really, really...
...Henry Holt...