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(Jan. 06, 1992) Books:Non-Fiction
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Jan. 06, 1992 Man of the Year:Ted Turner
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BOOKS, Page 75
BEST OF 1991
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<p> NONFICTION
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<p> 1. PATRIMONY by Philip Roth.
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<p> Writing of how he cared for his dying father, Roth gives
us that rarest of reads: a narrative of piercing clarity and
emotional impact about one of life's crucial events. The son
finds himself a parent to his own father, a stubborn 86-year-old
who puts up a gallant fight against the brain tumor that daily
robs him of his strength and dignity. In Herman Roth, the
novelist discovers the source of his own tenacious character.
There are no literary feints or false notes here, only the
steady, frank voice of a writer who has mastered his craft and
come to know and enjoy who he is and what he came from.
</p>
<p> 2. A LIFE OF PICASSO, VOL. I by John Richardson.
</p>
<p> Probably the last serious biography of the artist by
someone who knew him intimately, this first volume brings
Picasso from childhood through the Blue and Rose periods, just
as the 25-year-old was preparing to radically alter the course
of 20th century painting with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. With
the help of art historian Marilyn McCully, Richardson explores
areas untouched by earlier biographers. He is a born storyteller
and writes in a classic style that employs the full palette of
ideas and personalities that ushered in the era of Modernism.
</p>
<p> 3. THE PROMISED LAND by Nicholas Lemann.
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<p> Between 1940 and 1970, in the second great migration of
the 20th century, some 5 million black Americans moved from the
farms and hamlets of the South to the cities of the industrial
North, and the massive relocation left the nation transformed.
Documenting this population shift with scholarship and
anecdote, the author makes a major contribution to the
understanding of the relationship between public policy and
urban poverty.
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<p> 4. VLADIMIR NABOKOV: THE AMERICAN YEARS by Brian Boyd.
</p>
<p> Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this
concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of
Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not
overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries
of the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and
elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would
have to abandon entirely [his] hard-earned fame and to win
respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new
language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply
suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia."
</p>
<p> 5. DEN OF THIEVES by James B. Stewart.
</p>
<p> Never have so few plundered so much from so many as did
those financial buccaneers of the 1980s, Ivan Boesky, Michael
Milken, Martin Siegel and Dennis Levine. And not often has a
story of white-collar crime been told in such juicy detail as
in this best seller by the Wall Street Journal's front-page
editor.
</p>
<p> LESSER MOMENTS IN PUBLISHING II
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<p> Narrative that best exemplified the Which side are you on?
dilemma, or Who is more disagreeable, subject or author?: Nancy
Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography, by Kitty Kelley.
</p>
<p> Book that is least likely to attract a pass-along
readership: Final Exit, the how-to suicide manual by Derek
Humphry.
</p>
<p> Title that most admirably, if unintentionally, displayed
truth in advertising: Exposing Myself, by Geraldo Rivera.
</p>
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