THE SOUTH AND AMERICA SINCE WORLD WAR II.
By James C. Cobb.
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THE USE AND ABUSE OF LITERATURE.
By Marjorie Garber.
Pantheon. 320 pp. $28.95
THE IMMORTALIZATION COMMISSION:
Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death.
By John Gray.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 273 pp. $24
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Limited Learning on College Campuses.
By Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa.
Univ. of Chicago Press. 259 pp. $25
MUSIC FOR SILENCED VOICES:
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THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE:
How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties.
By David K. Shipler.
Knopf. 363 pp. $27.95
THE SOCIAL ANIMAL:
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement.
By David Brooks.
Random House. 424 pp. $27
TORIES:
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By Thomas B. Allen.
Harper. 468 pp. $26.99
LIBERTY’S EXILES:
American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War.
By Maya Jasanoff.
Knopf. 460 pp. $30
ODESSA:
Genius and Death in a City of Dreams.
By Charles King.
W. W. Norton. 336 pp. $27.95
MALCOLM X:
A Life of Reinvention.
By Manning Marable.
Viking. 594 pp. $30