Book takes long look at endangered cranes By Leigh E. Rich The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes By Peter Matthiessen, with Paintings and Drawings by Robert Bateman North Point Press December 2001 352 pages, 16 pages of color illustrations $27.00 In the same year Colorado, the “centennial” state, became the 38th addition to this […]
01.11.2002
11.30.2001
Book on Empire State Building a reminder of the Towers By Leigh E. Rich Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal and the Battle for an American Icon By Mitchell Pacelle John Wiley & Sons, Inc. November 2001 333 pages $27.95 Little could Wall Street Journal business writer Mitchell Pacelle know that his book, Empire: A […]
05.07.2000
Science left out cold in ‘Iceman’ By Leigh E. Rich Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier By Brenda Fowler Random House April 2000 296 pages $25.00 It is not every day a couple of hikers stumble across a five thousand year old corpse. In fact, it […]
04.16.2000
Bio doesn’t improve on Herriot’s books By Leigh E. Rich The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father By Jim Wight Ballantine Books February 2000 371 pages $25.00 His family and friends called him Alf, though most know him as James Herriot, the affable country veterinarian who wrote memorable books about life in the […]
03.12.2000
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Jean Young an inspiration despite understated style By Leigh E. Rich Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me By Andrea Young Tarcher/Putnam Books February 2000 272 pages $19.95 Martha Gellhorn, most commonly known as “Ernest Hemingway’s third wife” though most notably known as an award-winning novelist and wartime journalist in her own right, loathed the […]
12.12.1999
As his sight fades, author bares all By Leigh E. Rich Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight By Henry Grunwald Alfred A. Knopf November 1999 144 pages $20.00 Personalized books about illness, suffering and the “I’ve-got-a-disease” experience often lack clear scientific thought and valuable insight. Those that display medical jargon and faceless statistics leave readers wanting […]
11.25.1999
‘Letters of the Century’ delivers intimate account of history By Leigh E. Rich Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999 Edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler The Dial Press $35.00 With the dawning of the next millennium and the ever-increasing encroachment of high-speed, mass communication technology into our daily lives, collections of historical correspondence […]
10.28.1999
Edward Said’s memoir provides more exposition than insight By Leigh E. Rich Out of Place: A Memoir By Edward W. Said Alfred A. Knopf $26.95 Edward Said has leukemia. In Out of Place, his memoir about struggling with personal identity, Said doesn’t mention his illness until more than one hundred pages have passed, and he […]
01.07.1999
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Veteran TV journalist Lesley Stahl is one tough cookie By Leigh E. Rich Reporting Live By Lesley Stahl Simon & Schuster $25.00 Veteran TV journalist Lesley Stahl is one tough cookie. She’s had to be. Joining the CBS News team as a Washington-based reporter in 1972, Stahl has covered every presidential administration from Nixon to […]
10.01.1998
Chastity Bono combines narrative and case study to reveal what ‘out’ is about By Leigh E. Rich Family Outing By Chastity Bono with Billie Fitzpatrick Little, Brown and Company $23.50 It’s not easy being gay. Whether you’re a small-town boy from South Carolina or the daughter of the celebrated singing duo Sonny and Cher, “coming […]
