Freedom Song--A Personal Story of the 1960s...

Freedom Song--A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Mary King (Morrow); Free at Last--What Really Happened When Civil Rights Came to Southern Politics, Margaret Edds (Adler & Adler). “Highly informative books. . . . The first has the quality of an extended diary by a former participant in the struggle, written in wistful retrospection”; the other studies how the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has affected the South of the 1980s (Harold Cruse).

Storming Heaven, Denise Giardina (Norton). A historical novel about a 1921 battle in which 10,000 striking West Virginia miners attempted to take control of the corrupt local governments. “Brilliant diamond-hard fiction, heart wrenching, heartwarming, tough and tender” (Fred Chappell).

The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Br’er Rabbit, as told by Julius Lester (Dial). “Traditional black folk-telling which, unlike myths, mirrors the culture of its audience and makes each story wonderfully fun to hear” (Kristiana Gregory).

The Forbidden Zone, Michael Lesy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), “tries to get beyond metaphor, allegory and parable to discover what death is ; a thoughtful book that plots a difficult path between the icy abstractions of philosophy and the metaphors of art and literature” (Ross Miller).