FYI. I thought this might interest some ECOFEMers. I have not tried
the web site, so if anyone ventures there perhaps they could offer
some inisghts about its value.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 03:51:36 -0600
From: "Richard Jensen, H-Net Director" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington Post WWW has first chapters of many new books
from Richard Jensen, H-Net Central
There is an amazing new service on the WWW: The Washington Post
has most of its news stories on-line (free) at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Better still, the Washington Post Book Review section has the
complete first chapters of recently published fiction and
nonfiction books, along with the review published in the POST.
These chapters & reviews can be viewed and downloaded by WWW
browsers like Netscape (use control-S) or Lynx (use P).
http://
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/books.htm
here is the listing of non-fiction books with first chapters.
Chapter One: Nonfiction
Amazing Grace, By Jonathan Kozol
Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company, By Roy Morris, Jr.
Another Turn of the Crank, By Wendell Berry
Asia Rising, By Jim Rohwer
Autopsy on an Empire, By Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
Between Justice and Beauty, By Howard Gillette Jr.
Beyond Black and White, By Manning Marable
Black Lies, White Lies, By Tony Brown
Blood and Iron, By Otto Friedrich
The Blue Note Years, By M. Cuscuna, C. Lourie, and O. Schnider
Bring Back the Buffalo!, By Ernest Callenbach
Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase, By Marion Meade
A Century of Spies, By Jeffrey T. Richelson
Citizen Sherman, By Michael Fellman
Collision Course, By Micheline Maynard
Commonsense Justice: Jurors' Notions of the Law, By Norman J.
Finkel
Composition in Black and White, By Kathryn Talalay
Consumer Rites, By Leigh Eric Schmidt
The Death of Satan, By Andrew Delbanco
The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor, By Donald Spoto
The Diaries of Dawn Powell 1931 - 1965, By Dawn Powell
The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery, By Richard Elliot
Friedman
Dinosaur in a Haystack, By Stephen Jay Gould
Endangered Dreams, By Kevin Starr
The End of Racism, By Dinesh D'Souza
The Fall of the Romanovs, By Mark Steinberg, Vladimir Khrustalev
The Family Book of Christian Values, By Jill Briscoe
The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy, By William E.
Leuchtenburg
Fighting Terrorism, By Benjamin Netanyahu
First in His Class: Excerpts, By David Maraniss
Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares, By Nancy Langston
From the Beast to the Blonde, By Marina Warner
Gastonia: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike, By John A. Salmond
Giving Up on Democracy, By Victor Kamber
God's Chinese Son, By Jonathan D. Spence
Guns or Butter, By Irving Bernstein
H.G. -- the History of Mr. Wells, By Michael Foot
Heart of Whiteness, By Ben Schiff
I.M. Pei: Mandarin of Modernism, By Michael T. Cannell
If You Came This Way, By Peter Davis
The Inner Jefferson, By Andrew Burstein
Intimate Enemies, By Meron Benvenisti
Invisible Allies, By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
James Thurber: His Life and Times, By Harrison Kinney
John Wayne: American, By Rand Roberts and James Olson
Lincoln, By David Herbert Donald
Longitude, By Dava Sobel
The Magician's Doubts, By Michael Wood
Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman, By Alonzo Hamby
Me and Mario: Conversations in Candor, By Alan S. Chartock
Medical Malpractice and the American Jury, By Neil Vidmar
The Mexican Shock, By Jorge G. Castaneda
Mockery of Justice, By Sam Sheppard
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit, By Nelson Lichtenstein
Mountain Lion, By Chris Bolgiano
Naked Racial Preference, By Carl Cohen
The New Color Line, By Lawrence Stratton
Nixon's Piano, By Kenneth O'Reilly
No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille, By Carol Easton
Not Entitled: A Memoir, By Frank Kermode
Patton: A Genius For War, By Carlo D'Este
The Physics of Star Trek, By Lawrence M. Krauss
Previous Convictions, By Nora Sayre
Pursued By Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry, By Gordon Bowker
Race, Gender and Power in America, Edited by Anita Faye Hill and
Emma Jordan
Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby, By Mary S. Lovell
Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton, By Mark
Polizzotti
Seasons of War, By Daniel E. Sutherland
Stolen Childhood, By Wilma King
Storming the Gates, By Dan Balz and Ronald Brownstein
Strong Shadows, By Abigail Zugar
Take It Like a Man, By Boy George and Spencer Bright
Thread of the Silkworm, By Iris Chang
To Appomattox and Beyond, By Larry M. Logue
To Renew America, By Newt Gingrich
Turning Right in the Sixties, Turning Right in the Sixties
The Twilight of Common Dreams, By Todd Gitlin
Values Matter Most, By Ben J. Wattenberg
The Voice of the People, By James S. Fishkin
The War Against the Poor, By Herbert J. Gans
What Are Hyenas Laughing At, Anyway?, By David Feldman
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