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Freedom's Daughters (Scribner; 460 pages; $30) weaves the stories of neglected figures like Pauli Murray, organizer of the first sit-ins in Washington during the 1940s, and Gloria Richardson, the firebrand of the struggle in Cambridge, Md., during the 1960s, into a seamless saga of inspiring protest. Olson's subjects had to battle not only white supremacy but also the chauvinism of male civil rights leaders. As she writes, black women in the movement "felt torn between loyalty to their race and loyalty to their sex. Most of them chose race, insisting that their own liberation could...
...Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound 1926-1931," Donald Crafton New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...cover with the legend Do-It-Yourself.com. It was due in part to that cover that King thought of TIME when he was publishing his new book, a disturbing story of four old friends on a hunting trip who encounter some unexpected creatures in the woods. Scribner will publish the hard-cover version March...
This quiet, quotidian scene occupies roughly the first one-fifth of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist (Scribner; 128 pages; $22) and is followed abruptly by an obituary: Rey Robles, 64, a Spanish-born film director prominent for a time in the late 1970s, has shot and killed himself in the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. After a brief account of Robles' life and career and a reference to his later problems with alcoholism and depression, the article concludes, "He is survived by his third wife, Lauren Hartke, the body artist...
RUNNER-UP: Joy of Cooking: All About Vegetarian Cooking (Scribner; $19.95) It's hard to imagine Irma Rombauer cooking up a skillet of tofu. But 21st century palates will appreciate this creative tome...