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...books that will emerge from Gulf War II, undoubtedly, are yet to come; their authors are the soldiers and journalists still toiling in the region. Publishers Weekly Forecasts editor Jeff Zaleski predicts that a chronicle by one of the reporters who stuck out the bombing in Baghdad or a memoir by General Tommy Franks would sell well. But a surprising number of books already on store shelves and best-seller lists are addressing readers' immediate hunger to understand the conflict and its lasting impact. From instant books to meticulous histories, here's a reader's guide to war and peace...
Wechsler records this experience and four subsequent decades of life as an American expatriate in East Germany in his new book, Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany, due for publication in the fall...
Thomas Merton, who accomplished the only-in-America oxymoronic feat of becoming a celebrity Trappist monk (his memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain, was a best seller in 1948), fathered a child out of wedlock before taking his vows; later, as a middle-aged hermit with a taste for bourbon, he had a brief love affair with a nurse. Walker Percy drank too much. Poor Flannery O'Connor, crippled by lupus, dead at 39, sometimes sounded alarmingly like a racial bigot...
Lisa Halaby was a blond, Princeton-educated, all-American girl when she married the late King of Jordan and became QUEEN NOOR. She tells her story in a new memoir, Leap of Faith...
...wore a toga), with the usual $22,000 dollar-gift basket presenters, while the local news station interspersed the broadcast with announcements asking residents to donate sunscreen to the troops. At least the Academy patted the right part of the back this year, praising The Pianist, a war memoir that is perhaps the only unquestionably appropriate entertainment this week...