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...Gilligan's book about adolescent girls, "In a Different Voice," became an influential international bestseller. In 1996, TIME named Gilligan, by then a Harvard professor, one of the 25 most influential people in the U.S. In May, Knopf will publish Gilligan's new book, "The Birth of Pleasure," which Kirkus calls "an intellectual tour de force." According to Gilligan's publisher, her new book "explores the ways that humans experience and express love. Tracing a lineage from classical mythology to our own intimate relationships, Gilligan shows us why love between a man and a woman is so often burdened...
...scrupulously argued and culturally wide-ranging, this is an important and deeply original analysis of U.S. history and economics. FORECAST: Filled with tables and graphs and a rather dense text, this may be more talked-about than read, but talked-about it will be by commentators and pundits." Says Kirkus, "Sturdy economic history with a heavy dash of social criticism - and, as many conservative critics have said before of Phillips, excellent ammunition for liberals...
...CRAMER VS. CRAMER: Kirkus is bullish about "Confessions of a Street Addict" by James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster; May 13), giving it a starred review. "Wall Street's most notorious bull bares all in this typically over-the-top memoir. If Alan Greenspan was the superego of the '90s economy, Cramer was surely its libido. This memoir hopscotches between his trademark hyperbole and a peculiar form of self-abnegation (he never seems happier than when flagellating himself). Wall Street-savvy readers will particularly enjoy Cramer's blow-by-blow account of the late-'90s market. The IPO for Cramer...
...Kirkus applauds "The Emperor of Ocean Park," the much-buzzed-about first novel of Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter (Knopf), giving it a rhapsodic starred review. "This sleek, immensely readable first novel by Yale law professor Carter, author of such provocative nonfiction as 'The Culture of Disbelief' and 'God's Name in Vain,' is custom-designed for the kind of commercial success enjoyed by John Grisham's 'The Firm' 11 years ago...a melodrama with brains and heart to match its killer plot." First printing...
...June, the New Press will publish "Muckraking! The Journalism that Changed America" by Judith and William Serrin. Kirkus dives right in, giving the book a starred review. "A dazzling collection of some of the most significant examples of U.S. investigative journalism of the past 250 years...Wholly absorbing, intensely illuminating...