NONFICTION
FRIENDLY FIRE by C.D.B. Bryan. Angry, anguished Iowa parents battle military bureaucracy to learn the truth about their soldier-son's accidental death in Viet Nam. A very different kind of war book.
SIMPLE JUSTICE by Richard Kluger. A dramatic and illuminating social, legal and political history of the most important law case of our timeBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which resulted in the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
SCOUNDREL TIME by Lillian Hellman. After years of silence, the formidable author vents her fury about her costly encounters...