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...million copies of Peterson's guide and its diverse updatings and amplifications have been sold. Numerous competing volumes have crowded into this commercial niche. Now the birding world is aflutter over the near simultaneous arrival of two more, highly publicized guides: Kenn Kaufman's Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin; 384 pages; $20) and David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Guide to Birds (Knopf; 544 pages...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s autobiography, A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, is being published this month by Houghton Mifflin...
...Foods of the Greek Islands: Cooking and Culture at the Crossroads Of the Mediterranean by Aglaia Kremezi (Houghton Mifflin...
...first volume of Schlesinger's memoirs, A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (Houghton Mifflin; 557 pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T.S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/Appeasing long forgotten wars...
...Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s autobiography, "A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950," is being published this month by Houghton Mifflin...