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...Kirkus is stunned by "Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Path of the World's Most Precious Stones" by Greg Campbell (Westview; September), giving it a starred review. "The sorry role the diamond has played in the history of Sierra Leone, stunningly told by journalist Campbell ('The Road to Kosovo,' 1999)...Readers of Campbell's horrific tale - from killing fields to corporate boardrooms and all the seedy, murderous, and pathetic characters that fall between - who don't demand proof-of-source on any diamond purchase ought to have their ethics examined...
...August 25, Oxford University will publish "Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America" by former Senator Gary Hart. Says Kirkus, "Scholarly dissertation meets populist manifesto in politico Hart's case for increased citizen involvement in government...Despite some pie-in-the-sky elements, the argument merits discussion, and the prescriptions are delivered coherently and effectively...
...August 27, Doubleday will publish "September 11: An Oral History" by Dean E. Murphy. Kirkus is moved to tears, giving the book a starred review. "Soul-stirring firsthand accounts - terrifying transports - of living through the disasters of September 11, as told to NYT reporter Murphy. Murphy was one of the reporters who covered that grave day and its aftermath, and for this collection he took on the unenviable task of asking those who survived by the skin of their teeth to relive the catastrophe, plus a handful of people, who by the grace of fortune, who were slow at making...
...Kirkus dusts of its copy of "The Origin of the Species," giving "Charles Darwin: The Power of Place" by Janet Browne (Knopf; September 17) a starred review. "Continuing where 'Charles Darwin: Voyaging' (1995) left off, the British science historian completes her brilliant two-volume biography...For all his apparent desire to be left alone to lead the life of a country gentleman, Darwin was a shrewd self-promoter, vigorously publicizing his work even in the depths of a long illness that Browne suggests may have been brought on in part by his tireless labors...A richly detailed, vivid, and definitive...
...September 20, Dunne/St. Martin's will publish a biography of W's ma: "Barbara Bush: Matriarch of a Dynasty" by Pamela Kilian, Scripps Howard News Service editor. Says Kirkus, "Full of praise for its subject, even with many qualifications: solely for fans of the Bush dynasty...