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New & Notable Nonfiction: April 2012 (page 3)

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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
Kirkus Star CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: SPORTSWRITERS AND THE LONG CAMPAIGN TO DESEGREGATE BASEBALL
by Chris Lamb
"Although the paragraphs are sometimes thick with detail, the author has documented a story of immense cultural importance."
The author of Blackout: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training (2004) returns with a comprehensive account of how journalists--black and white--covered the emerging story of the integration of Major League Baseball. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
Kirkus Star NIGHTCAP AT DAWN: AMERICAN SOLDIERS' COUNTERINSURGENCY IN IRAQ
by J.B. Walker
"A bracing cooperative effort taking readers as close to war as humanly possible."
Iraq war experiences from those who were there. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
Kirkus Star THE STORY OF ENGLISH IN 100 WORDS
by David Crystal
"Snack-sized chapters with banquet-sized satisfaction."
The author of The Stories of English (2004) and other volumes devoted to the nature and history of our language returns with a gem that sparkles with information about how English grows, changes, adopts and plays. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
Kirkus Star BYE BYE BABYLON: BEIRUT 1975-1979
by Lamia Ziadé, illustrated by Lamia Ziadé, translated by Olivia Snaije
"Stunning in both the art and the audacity."
Visually arresting and emotionally devastating, this graphic memoir of war and childhood feels like an art book and explodes like a car bomb. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
Kirkus Star CONNIE MACK: THE TURBULENT AND TRIUMPHANT YEARS, 1915-1931
by Norman L. Macht
"Definitive and exhaustive, animated by a profound respect and admiration."
The second volume of the author's massive biography of legendary baseball manager Connie Mack (1862–1956). Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
THE CRISIS OF ZIONISM
by Peter Beinart
"Straight talk by a clear-thinking intellectual with his heart in the right place."
An American journalist offers an elegant, deeply honest look at the failure of Jewish liberalism in forging Israel as a democratic state. Read full book review >