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April 25, 2004 A statesman for all seasons By Richard Brookhiser 'Alexander Hamilton' Ron Chernow; Penguin Press: 820 pp., $35 Genius still undocumented Reviewed by Richard Schickel FILM ON PAPER: 'Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars' Bernard F. Dick; The University Press of Kentucky: 296 pp., $35 Hiding in plain sight By Anthony Lewis 'Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush' John W. Dean; Little, Brown: 254 pp., $22.95 Without a doubt By Robert Scheer 'Plan of Attack' Bob Woodward; Simon & Schuster: 468 pp., $28 Bars are gone, not the prison By Francie Lin 'A Hole in the Universe: A Novel' Mary McGarry Morris; Viking: 376 pp., $24.95 Charging into Afghanistan By Karl E. Meyer 'The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan' Ben Macintyre; Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 352 pp., $25 Music in the marrow of life By Tom Nolan Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life; Geoffrey O'Brien ; Counterpoint: 328 pp., $27.50 All in Good Time: A Memoir ; Jonathan Schwartz; Random House: 283 pp., $24.95 How a royal changed the game By Jennifer Shahade 'Birth of the Chess Queen: A History' Marilyn Yalom; HarperCollins: 276 pp., $24.95 A poetic dialogue By Adrienne Rich 'The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov' Edited by Robert J. Bertholf and Albert Gelpi Stanford University Press: 858 pp., $39.95 paper The truth of fiction evokes our common humanity By Susan Sontag Long ago — it was the 18th century — a great and eccentric defender of literature — it was Doctor Johnson — wrote, in the preface to his Dictionary: "The chief glory of every people arises from its authors." Imagination goes beyond 'The Code' By Nicholas A. Basbanes Codex: A Novel; Lev Grossman; Harcourt: 348 pp., $24 Reading between the lines, with friends By Vivian Gornick There are five of us. We've been reading memoir together for 10 years. We meet only when all of us can make it. Some years, that means only six or seven times. Even so, these meetings often seem to come at the kind of inconvenient moment that lives like ours — ones eaten up with scheduling — are forever manufacturing. Yet no one wants to give up the group. Hitler, close up By John Lukacs Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich; Joachim Fest; Translated from the German by Margot Dembo; Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 192 pp., $21 Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secret Death in the air By Frank Clifford An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal; Andrew Schneider and David McCumber; Putnam: 440 pp., $25.95 Libby, Montana: Asbestos & the Deadly Si A ride down Los Angeles' backstreets By Michael Harris Last Lullaby: A Novel; Denise Hamilton; Scribner: 358 pp., $25 poems for the young and tough By Charles Bukowski From 'The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems'; Edited by John Martin; (Ecco/HarperCollins: 300 pp., $27.50) For the record Bestsellers list: In some editions of the April 18 Book Review, "Glorious Appearing" by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins incorrectly appeared on the nonfiction list. It is a work of fiction. Also, "Warrior of the Light: A Manual" was incorrectly listed as a hardback. It was a paperback bestseller. April 18, 2004 Death's desert trek Reviewed by Jonathan Kirsch WESTWORDS: 'The Devil's Highway: A True Story' Luis Alberto Urrea Little, Brown: 240 pp., $24.95 The Stalin we hardly knew Reviewed by Richard Lourie 'Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar' Simon Sebag Montefiore Alfred A. Knopf: 786 pp., $30 Peter Pan complexity Reviewed by Jon Boorstin 'Little Children: A Novel' Tom Perrotta St. Martin's: 356 pp., $24.95 Supporting player in the spotlight Reviewed by James Mann 'Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror' Richard A. Clarke Free Press: 292 pp., $27 The man who redrew the world Reviewed by Blanche Wiesen Cook 'American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization' Neil Smith University of California Press: 584 pp., $39.95 Southern comfort Reviewed by Michael Harris 'A Song I Knew by Heart: A Novel' Bret Lott Random House: 310 pp., $24.95 Haiti's echoing victory Reviewed by Amy Wilentz 'Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution Laurent Dubois The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press: 358 pp., $29.95 On the outside looking in Reviewed by Benita Eisler 'Siegfried Sassoon' Jean Moorcroft Wilson Routledge New view of the narrow gate Reviewed by Nancy Klein Maguire 'The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness' Karen Armstrong Alfred A. Knopf: 312 pp., $24 Know them by their deeds Reviewed by Neal Ascherson 'The Anatomy of Fascism' Robert O. Paxton Alfred A. Knopf: 322 pp., $26 A poet, lonely as a cloud Reviewed by Jamie James 'Collected Poems' Ted Hughes Edited by Paul Keegan Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1,334 pp., $50 Clues and cash keep flowing Reviewed by Eugen Weber L.A. CONFIDENTIAL: 'Out of Reach' Patricia Lewin 'The 37th Hour' Jodi Compton 'Shadow Account' Stephen Frey Poignant hope in a Paris refuge Reviewed by Lee Siegel 'Report From a Parisian Paradise: Essays From France, 1925-1939' Joseph Roth Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann W.W. Norton: 302 pp., $24.95 First fiction By Mark Rozzo 'The Book of Ralph: A Fiction' John McNally 'I Dream of Microwaves' Imad Rahman Bestsellers Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores. Los Angeles Times list for April 18, 2004 Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds 'Time & Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket' Frank Conroy 'The View From Stalin's Head: Stories' Aaron Hamburger 'The Various: A Novel' Steve Augarde April 11, 2004 Caught in a dark history Reviewed by Jaroslaw Anders 'Conspirators: A Novel' Michael André Bernstein Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 506 pp., $25 Their very exclusive wartime club Reviewed by Douglas Brinkley 'Franklin and Winston' Jon Meacham 'FDR: Champion of Freedom' Conrad Black Chasing poetry in the spring Reviewed by Carol Muske-Dukes POETS' CORNER: April is the cruelest month for reviewers of poetry, as there is always a blossoming abundance of books spilling from publishers' spring lists for National Poetry Month and beyond — yet not enough print space to adequately address this abundance. With this surfeit in mind, I've tried to "blossom-herd" a bit of the April bouquet: Discoveries Reviewed by Susan Salter Reynolds 'The Narrow Waters' Julien Gracq 'Manifesto for a New World Order' George Monbiot 'Sarajevo Marlboro' Miljenko Jergovic April 4, 2004 Bukowski, living on in the work Reviewed by Jonathan Kirsch WESTWORDS: 'The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems' Charles Bukowski; Edited by John Martin The Ecco Press: 300 pp., $27.50 From ivory tower to the halls of power Reviewed by Jim Sleeper 'The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment' Geoffrey Kabaservice Henry Holt: 576 pp., $30 How the media got that way Reviewed by Ken Auletta 'The Creation of the Media' Paul Starr 'All the News That's Fit to Sell' James T. Hamilton March 28, 2004 It was never about the music Reviewed by Robert Hilburn 'Howling at the Moon' Walter Yetnikoff, with David Ritz Links in a creative chain Reviewed by Richard Howard 'A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Artists and Writers, 1854-1967' Rachel Cohen On the other side of darkness Reviewed by John Felstiner 'Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work' Edited by S. Lillian Kremer March 21, 2004 A pioneer who made his mark on the mountains Reviewed by Jonathan Kirsch WESTWORDS: 'Will Thrall and the San Gabriels: A Man to Match the Mountains' Ronald C. Woolsey; Sunbelt Publications: 176 pp., $24.95 When the brain was named king Reviewed by Ross King SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW: 'Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain — and How It Changed the World' Carl Zimmer; The Free Press: 368 pp., $26 Wacky Leno family barbecue BOOKS FOR KIDS: Comedian Jay Leno adapts a family-friendly stand-up bit for a pleasantly silly picture book. March 14, 2004 A life in front of the keyboard By Richard Schickel FILM ON PAPER: 'It's All True: A Novel of Hollywood' David Freeman; Simon & Schuster: 274 pp., $23 The myth of the falling sky Reviewed by Tamar Jacoby Open or shut? America's immigration mess and the history of its discontents. March 7, 2004 An intoxicating sip of the Roaring '20s By Heller McAlpin 'Bandbox: A Novel' Thomas Mallon, Pantheon: 308 pp., $24.95 A lot of lies and just as many excuses By Tim Rutten 'Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times' Jayson Blair, New Millennium: 288 pp., $24.95 'The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality' Reviewed by K.C. Cole BOOK REVIEW: Brian Greene; Alfred A. Knopf: 574 pp., $28.95 In the name of God By F.E. Peters 'God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism' Jonathan Kirsch, Viking: 352 pp., $25.95 Finding Bobby Fischer, sadly By J.C. Hallman 'Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time' David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Ecco Press: 322 pp., $24.95 February 29, 2004 Who was that masked man? By Henry Jaglom 'Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life' Peter Conrad; Faber and Faber: 384 pp., $25 February 22, 2004 Understanding Enlightenment Reviewed by Thomas Laqueur 'Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul' Roy Porter; W.W. Norton: 574 pp., $29.95 A dazzling feat on the diamond BOOKS FOR KIDS: These reviews are provided courtesy of Publishers Weekly, where they first appeared. © 2004 Publishers Weekly. February 15, 2004 Born in the U.S.A. Reviewed by Elizabeth Partridge 'Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie' Ed Cray; W.W. Norton & Co.: 384 pp., $29.95 February 8, 2004 A flu that felled millions By Alfred W. Crosby 'The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History' John M. Barry; Viking: 548 pp., $29.95 Achingly drawn conclusions By Scott Timberg Loners, lost souls and the comics. February 1, 2004 A legacy of epic proportions By Jonathan Kirsch WESTWORDS: 'California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present' Edited by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost and Jack Hicks Santa Clara University/Heyday Books: 400 pp., $21.95 The new economic certainty: Nothing is certain Reviewed by Peter G. Gosselin SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW: Peter G. Gosselin on the broken promises of the boom-and-bust 1990s. January 11, 2004 Movie men behaving badly By Richard Schickel 'Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film' Peter Biskind; Simon & Schuster: 544 pp., $26.95 Daily reviews from Calendar Bush's march to war Bob Woodward deftly reconstructs the decisions that led to the invasion of Iraq. April 23, 2004 Lingering issues undercut 'Questions of Socrates' Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-day Journey of Discovery Through World Philosophy; Christopher Phillips; W.W. Norton: 320 pp., $23.95 April 23, 2004 Southern exposure with a smile Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena; Julia Reed; Random House: 182 pp., $22.95 April 19, 2004 Rehnquist's take on 1876 election a missed opportunity 'Centennial Crisis': The Disputed Election of 1876; William H. Rehnquist; Alfred A. Knopf: 276 pp., $26 April 16, 2004 Quindlen speaks for the sane in the middle Loud and Clear: Anna Quindlen; Random House: 292 pp., $24.95 April 14, 2004 The 4th Annual Parent Reading Guide. A guide for busy adults who want their child to read and read well. Click here --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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