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DIED. Buck O'Neil, 94, star first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues who later became Major League Baseball's first black coach; in Kansas City, Mo. "Since I was a pup," he wrote in his memoir I Was Right on Time, "I've been following that bouncing ball." A Florida kid who grew up watching Babe Ruth during spring training, O'Neil joined the Monarchs in 1938 after their first baseman broke a leg--a move that led to his friendship with teammate Satchel Paige. O'Neil later became a Chicago Cubs scout--he signed...
...memoir, “One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way,” Kopp wrote that she started the company with a rallying cry: “We are a group of recent graduates who believe that today’s brightest, most motivated students of every race and academic major should join together to help the United States...
...Work Hard, Study ... and Keep Out of Politics!" That's what James Baker's grandfather used to say, and it's the title of the veteran public servant's new memoir. Having led two Cabinet departments and served as White House chief of staff, Baker obviously obeyed only two of his grandfather's three instructions. At 76, he co-chairs the Iraq Study Group and spoke with TIME's Michael Duffy about Iraq, bipartisanship, election reform and his African-American relatives...
Just when you thought there was not one word left to be added to the vast canon of postcolonial literature-no more stern apologia from superannuated officials, no more sobbing memoirs of privileged childhood from the waifs and strays of empire-along comes a work that is neither a defense of colonialism nor a veiled lament for its passing. The glib assumption one first makes of Peter Moss's No Babylon-coming as it does from British Hong Kong's former propaganda chief-is that it will be the kind of memoir any undergraduate seminar could destroy in minutes, excoriating...
CANCER VIXEN: A TRUE STORYMARISA ACOCELLA MARCHETTOWhich pair of shoes should you wear to your first chemotherapy session? That's one of the pressing issues dealt with in this funny, eye-opening and moving memoir. Weeks before she's due to (finally!) get married, the 43-year-old cartoonist-fashionista discovers a lump in her breast. Using a lipstick-color palette, Acocella Marchetto keeps the book upbeat. As good as the best Sex and the City episodes, Cancer Vixen becomes a lesson on how staying fabulous can help save your life...