Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both series are targeted at time-challenged boomers, and both have similar formats, with short chapters, brief paragraphs, lots of sidebars--and few difficult words. "Every time we threw some fancy terminology in there," says Ed McCarthy, co-author of Wine for Dummies, Red Wine for Dummies and White Wine for Dummies, "our editors made us take...
...logical extension of her TV book club; it brings a novel she loves to millions, who can read it at the movies. Morrison was an early beneficiary of Oprah's literary saleswomanship; her 1977 Song of Solomon was the book club's second selection. "Sales were thunderous!" the author says. "It sold more in three or four months than it had in its entire 20 years...
...none of Morrison's novels had been filmed, and that was fine with her. "I was always annoyed," says the author and Princeton professor, "when my students would ask, 'When is there going to be a movie?' I told them that a novel is not what happens before the movie. Why can't it just be a book?" Morrison knows the page and the screen are only distantly related, especially in the adaptation of a novel like Beloved--dense, elliptical, teeming with allusion and metaphor, leaping from now to then and back again, in pain. Turning a book into...
Morrison had attended the first read-through--what she calls "stroke-the-author time"--and visited the set, where she fell in love with the costume people and their meticulous work. "The fabrics they had!" she exclaims. "They had boots from Italy with the buttons up the side. And the underclothes with six inches of lace on the skirts, the likes of which you have not seen. How many people had been blinded making these things...
Williams, the author of Eyes on the Prize, a history of the civil rights movement, recounts the now familiar saga of Marshall's step-by-step assault on Jim Crow as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But Williams also provides fresh insights into Marshall's ruthless role in the organization's tortured internal politics. Marshall had a hand in ousting not only W.E.B. DuBois, one of the N.A.A.C.P.'s founders, for his ties to communists, but also executive secretary Walter White, for committing the cardinal sin of marrying a white woman...