On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review By JOSEPH LELYVELD
Reviewed by GEOFFREY C. WARDJoseph Lelyveld's vivid, nuanced and cleareyed study of Mahatma Gandhi focuses on his role as a social reformer, in both South Africa and in India. Also in the Book Review By DAN GARDNER
Reviewed by KATHRYN SCHULZWe have a deep desire to know the future. But the journalist Dan Gardner argues that forecasts by experts are rarely more accurate than a guess.  Reviewed by DAVID OSHINSKYJimmy Breslin on Branch Rickey, who laid the groundwork for integrating baseball. Neil Lanctot on Roy Campanella, who helped lead the way.  By WARD JUST
Reviewed by STEVEN HEIGHTONA novel of a Midwesterner's coming-of-age in a world of art and money.  By SHERI HOLMAN
Reviewed by JULIE MYERSONA legacy of mysticism and fear haunts three generations of in Sheri Holman's novel.  By PETER STAMM
Reviewed by SARAH FAYThe Swiss writer Peter Stamm imagines a man caught between a charming, frigid wife and a plain but devoted mistress.  By DAVID GOLDFIELD
Reviewed by ANDREW DELBANCOA historian asks whether the country might have spared itself the carnage of the Civil War.  By ALAN HEATHCOCK
Reviewed by DONALD RAY POLLOCKThese eight tales are linked by the suffering that abounds in a small, poverty-stricken town.  By CAROLYN BURKE
Reviewed by JAMES GAVINEdith Piaf embraced life passionately, even at its cruelest; Carolyn Burke's biography surveys the mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect.  By RICHARD D. WHITE JR.
Reviewed by JOHN SCHWARTZA biography of Will Rogers reminds us that the happy-go-lucky comedian was also a powerful political insider.  By ALEX von TUNZELMANN
Reviewed by TOM GJELTENAlex von Tunzelmann reconstructs an era when Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic were cold war battlegrounds. By MARTIN DUBERMAN
Reviewed by J. COURTNEY SULLIVANThe intersecting lives of two gay Americans who were involved in issues like civil rights and the Vietnam War. By EDWARD DOLNICK
Reviewed by ANN FINKBEINERHow the scientific attempt to describe the underlying order of the cosmos played out in the life of Isaac Newton.  By PETER GODWIN
Reviewed by JOSHUA HAMMERThe journalist Peter Godwin's latest chronicle of the horrors of Zimbabwe under Mugabe.  By THOMAS PLETZINGER
Reviewed by LELAND de la DURANTAYEIn this German novel, a children's book and the dog of the title reflect the tragic history of a menage-a-trois.  By RICHARD KLUGER
Reviewed by DAVID WALDSTREICHERHow a struggle over land led to war between whites and Indians in Washington Territory in the mid-1800's. |
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