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...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...
...Black and Latino students are disproportionately affected by "zero tolerance" policies in schools, reports "Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools" by William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Rick Ayers (New Press; paperback original; December 1). Kirkus is listening. "?Zero tolerance? initially meant that any student bringing a gun to school would be expelled for up to two years. In many schools, however, the policy has come to cover not only realistic replicas of firearms and knives, but objects that, but virtue of their shape and design, could cause any physical harm, or even give the appearance...
...went on to write "Galileo?s Daughter," the story of the renaissance scientist?s life and times, and his relationship with his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a Poor Clare nun. Now, Sobel has edited and translated "Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633" (Walker; November 16). Kirkus is transported, giving the book a starred review. "The gentle, intelligent voice of Galileo?s daughter speaks across the centuries in 124 remarkable epistles--published for the first time in English - written to her father in the early 17th century...Lively and lovely. Making these available to the English-speaking...
...Kirkus and PW stand united in their admiration of "Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years" by Barbara Leaming (Free Press; October 23), both giving it glowing starred reviews. Kirkus raved, "Admirably detailed, stunningly successful, and likely to become the definitive biography of the Kennedy marriage, with all the intimacy and international scope implied." PW concurs. "Leaming explores Jackie?s complex and often painful inner life with subtlety and compassion. Unabashedly sympathetic toward her protagonist, Leaming provides a fascinating glimpse into one of the 20th century?s most famous marriages, and her assertion that Jackie Kennedy deserves more...
...values...America from 1990 to 2001 - from impeachment to recession, the rise of the Internet to the fall of Nasdaq, and the upheaval of the 2000 elections - is covered in startling detail by Johnson. He has written a magnetic book that every thoughtful American will want to read." Kirkus agrees, giving the book a starred review. "An absorbing survey of America?s second Gilded...