[bksvol-discuss] NY Times Bestsellers Newsletter

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  • Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:49:52 -0500

Gary and those of you who are interested,

This is this week's NY Times bestseller newsletter. Look it over and if you are interested, you can go to the sign-up link and you will get this every Friday for free. Enjoy!

Maithe
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Books Update
The New York Times Friday, February 8, 2008
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- Radical '60s Fiction -
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'My Revolutions'
By HARI KUNZRU
Reviewed by WILL BLYTHE
Hari Kunzru's protagonist is a former '60s radical who has
hidden his past.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Blythe-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'His Illegal Self'
By PETER CAREY Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER
In Peter Carey's new novel, a boy goes underground with a
rebel indulging her maternal urge.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

Times Topics: Peter Carey
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/peter_carey/index.html

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Book News & More Reviews
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html?8bu&emc=bu
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- Also in This Week's Book Review -
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'Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary'
Edited by SUSAN MORRISON
Reviewed by ALEXANDRA JACOBS
In these essays, women respond to the phenomenon of Hillary
Clinton.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Jacobs-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

First Chapter
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/books/chapters/1st-chapter-30-ways-of-looking-at-hillary.html

Times Topics: Hillary Clinton
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html

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Books From Republican Party Insiders
Reviews by MICHAEL LIND
Michael Gerson and John Bolton's new books offer very
different views of -- and prescriptions for -- the Republican
Party.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Lind-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again'
By DAVID FRUM
Reviewed by ALAN EHRENHALT
To regain popular support, David Frum says, Republicans
must rethink some positions.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Ehrenhalt-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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Books About African-American Identity
Reviewed by JILL NELSON
Randall Kennedy explores the notion of the race traitor;
Shelby Steele uses Barack Obama's candidacy as a window on
contemporary black identity and progress.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Nelson-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'The Race Card'
By RICHARD THOMPSON FORD
Reviewed by ORLANDO PATTERSON
A Stanford professor argues that too often, false charges
of bias have clouded legitimate discussions about race.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Patterson-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

First Chapter
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/books/chapters/1st-chapter-race-card.html

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'Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?'
By JAMES J. SHEEHAN
Reviewed by GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
This scintillating tour d'horizon -- and de force -- explains
how the Continent has achieved six decades of peace.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Wheatcroft-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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Books About the Democratic Party and Religion
Reviewed by R. SCOTT APPLEBY
Can Democrats woo back the faithful? Amy Sullivan and E. J.
Dionne Jr. think they've already started.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Appleby-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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Memoirs of the 1960s Reviewed by ELSA DIXLER
Carl Oglesby remembers his tenure as S.D.S. president;
Susan Sherman -- a poet, playwright and co-founder of Ikon
magazine -- tells a more personal story.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Dixler-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'Sizwe's Test'
By JONNY STEINBERG
Reviewed by ADAM HOCHSCHILD
A journalist follows one high-risk South African as a way
to understand why AIDS continues to spread despite
available treatment.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Hochschild-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'Defying Dixie'
By GLENDA GILMORE
Reviewed by MAURICE ISSERMAN
A history of the activists who prepared the ground for the
civil rights leaders of the 1950s and '60s.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Isserman-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'Righteous Warrior'
By WILLIAM A. LINK
Reviewed by DAVID GREENBERG
A hefty biography of Senator Jesse Helms, the hard-right
leader who embodied conservatism in the 1980s and beyond.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Greenberg-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'Embryo: A Defense of Human Life'
By ROBERT P. GEORGE and CHRISTOPH TOLLEFSEN
Reviewed by WILLIAM SALETAN
A philosopher and a bioethicist make the case that embryos
are entitled to rights.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Saletan-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'Homo Politicus'
By DANA MILBANK
Reviewed by TARA MCKELVEY
The columnist Dana Milbank is an anthropologist of 'Potomac
Land.'

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/McKelvey-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

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'Basic Brown'
By WILLIE BROWN
Reviewed by MATT BAI
Political wisdom from Willie Brown. Step 1: Wear a sharp
suit.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Bai-t.html?8bu&emc=bu


- Books Features -
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Essay
Fitzgerald vs. Hollywood
By PAUL GREENBERG
What can Pat Hobby, Fitzgerald's fictional hack of a
screenwriter, tell us about the current strike?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Greenberg2-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

Times Topics: F. Scott Fitzgerald
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/f_scott_fitzgerald/index.html

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Crime
Who Killed the Courtesan?
Reviews by MARILYN STASIO
In Ariana Franklin's mystery, the queen is suspected of
murdering Henry II's mistress. Also reviewed: novels by Jim
Kelly, Leighton Gage and Adrian Hyland.

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/Crime-t.html?8bu&emc=bu

More Crime Columns
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- In the News -
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One Writer's Brooklyn: Chronicles of Crime, Boombox Abuse
and Divorce
By MICHAEL WILSON
After a six-year dry spell, the Brooklyn author Gabriel
Cohen has hit on a writer's hat trick: three books in three
genres from three publishers, all reaching the shelves
within a year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/books/06cohen.html?8bu&emc=bu


- New in Stores -
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Books of The Times
'The Commission'
By PHILIP SHENON
Reviewed by EVAN THOMAS
Philip Shenon's book chronicles the human frailty and folly
that went into "The 9/11 Commission Report."

Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/books/04thom.html?8bu&emc=bu

First Chapter
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/books/chapters/1st-chapter-commission.html


- Best Sellers -
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Hardcover Fiction
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/bestseller/0217besthardfiction.html?8bu&emc=bu


Hardcover Nonfiction
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/bestseller/0217besthardnonfiction.html?8bu&emc=bu


Hardcover Advice
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/bestseller/0217besthardadvice.html?8bu&emc=bu


Children's Books
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/bestseller/0217bestchildren.html?8bu&emc=bu


Paperback Trade Fiction http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/bestseller/0217bestpapertradefiction.html?8bu&emc=bu


Paperback Mass-Market Fiction http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/bestseller/0217bestpapermassfiction.html?8bu&emc=bu


Paperback Nonfiction
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/bestseller/0217bestpapernonfiction.html?8bu&emc=bu


Paperback Advice
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/bestseller/0217bestpaperadvice.html?8bu&emc=bu


Inside the List
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/review/10tbr.html?8bu&emc=bu


All the Lists
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/02/09/books/bestseller/index.html



- Editor's Note -
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Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail. Feel free to
send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my
best to respond.

Blake Wilson
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Books producer
The New York Times
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