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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of June 23, 2008

Written by Gordon Hauptfleisch
Published June 22, 2008
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Extra, extra - read all about ‘em! A couple other releases, with “’nuff said” titles, defy description, but for totally different reasons. First up is Michelle Ann Abate’s Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History - a single subject title that's a sure bet not to be represented in your bookcase, or offered as a seminar at too many universities. Then a together-again-for-the-first-time mix-and-match makes Edward Dolnick’s The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century a book you’re at least going to pick up and peruse.

Also, for your consideration:

Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History
by Michelle Ann Abate

Hidden Codes & Grand Designs: Secret Languages from Ancient Times to Modern Day
by Pierre Berloquin

God - or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age
by Constance Aerson Clark

The Full Burn: On the Set, at the Bar, Behind the Wheel, and Over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen
by Kevin Conley

Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
by Georgia J. Cowart 

The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
by Edward Dolnick

This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
Barbara Ehrenreich

The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers
by Rose Eichenbaum, Aron Hirt-Manheimer (Editor)

Garner on Writing and Language
by Bryan A. Garner

Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan
by Jeffery S. McMillan, Jeff McMillan

The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
by Michael Meyer

Fleeced: How Washington Insiders, Foreign Lobbyists, Subprime Lenders, Credit Card Companies, Iraq Reconstruction Contractors, and Clinton Cronies Are Picking Our Pockets... and What to Do About It
by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann

Elephants and Ethics: Toward a Morality of Coexistence
by Christen Wemmer (Editor), Catherine A. Christen (Editor), Foreword by John Seidensticker

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Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at PhotobucketGordon Hauptfleisch, alias Neanderthal Hawthorne, is Blogcritics Books Editor, free lance writer, and book reviewer for the San Diego Union Tribune. He's also an enigmatic visionary of unfathomable secrets and many a guise, or at least he plays one in his delusions of grandeur. His mandate also includes weird bugs. In a previous life he was a leprous horse thief. But for this one you can email him in an arguably better frame of body and mind.
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of June 23, 2008
Published: June 22, 2008
Type: News
Section: Books
Filed Under: Books: News, Books: Nonfiction
Part of a feature: The Early Word: New and Notable Books
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