Reckless Disregard: Krafting Blame in a Kentucky Bus Crash
A critique of James Kunen's Reckless Disregard recounts a 1988 Kentucky school bus tragedy caused by drunken driver Larry Mahoney. It highlights Ford Motor Co settlements, safety design flaws, and a system blamed for neglect amid lawsuits and regulatory debates. The review notes overstatements and calls for accountability.
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Kentucky
James S. Kunen
Simon & Schuster
Larry Mahoney
Mahoney
Ford Motor Co
James Kunen
Ford
Shannon Fair
Kanen
Kunen
Ues
Louisville Courier-Journal
Reissue of Chesnutt works revisits Reconstruction era
Durham reports Duke University Press releases two Chesnutt volumes The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales and The Journals of Charles W Chesnutt The editor Richard H Brodhead notes the writings illuminate pain of slavery and limits of black authorship while detailing Chesnitts struggle to publish post Civil War journals span 1874 75 and 1877 81 and reveal a bid for opportunity amid racial barriers
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Durham
Charles W. Chesnutt
North Carolina
Chesnutt
Duke University Press
Richard H. Brodhead
Yale University
Harlem
Brodhead
Cleveland
Fayetteville
Duke
Best selling books in next week's Publishers Weekly list
The forthcoming hardcover fiction and nonfiction top sellers include Anne Rice, Tom Clancy, Patricia Cornwell, James Redfield, Dick Francis, and James Finn Garner in fiction. Nonfiction features John Gray, Barbara Bush, Paul Reiser, Rosie Daley, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and William Bennett among the leaders.
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Publishers Weekly
Anne Rice
Knopf
Tom Clancy
Putnam
Patricia Cornwell
Scribners
James Redfield
Warmer
Dick Francis
James Finn Garner
Macmillan
Sidney Sheldon
William Morrow
Madison County
Robert James Waller
Warn
Mars
Venus
John Gray
HarperCollins
Barbara Bush
Paul Reiser
Bantam
Mary Matalin
James Carville
Peter Knobeler
Random House
Simon & Schuster
Rosie
Rosie Daley
James Herriot
St. Martins
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Fall season brings books from Godwin to King
Fall publishing lineup features Gail Godwin Tom Robbins Nadine Gordimer Joseph Heller John Irving and others in fiction while Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns guide Baseball and Desmond Tutu reflects on South Africa. Notable titles include Closing Time What I Lived For Insomnia and A Nation Under Lawyers with prominent biographies and essays.
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John Irving
Random House
Bebe Moore Campbell
Putnam
Anna Quindlen
Tom Robbins
Bantam
HarperCollins
Jackie Collins
Simon & Schuster
William J. Bennett
Geoffrey C. Ward
Ken Burns
Knopf
John Berendt
Dolly
Harper Collins
Thomas Baccei
Andrews & McMeel
Gail Godwin
Nadine Gordimer
Joseph Heller
Ballantine
Larry McMurtry
Diana Ossana
Nadine
Gordimer
South Africa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Dutton
D.M. Thomas
Pavlova
Carroll & Graf
Stephen King
Viking
Harper-Collins
Desmond Tutu
People of God
Doubleday
Capetown
Robert H. Ferrell
Harry S. Truman
University of Missouri
Mary Ann Glendon
Great War retold by naval historian Halpern review
Norman N. Brown profiles Paul G. Halpern and his sweeping A Naval History of World War I. The review notes Halpern covers the full spectrum from first day to last, including riverine actions, U S submarine campaigns, Austro Hungarian naval decline, and naval aviation’s rise, with vivid examples like the English Channel clash of German aircraft and British motorboats.
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Naval Institute Press
Paul G. Halpern
Halpern
Skagerak
Coronel
Falklands
Jutland
Mesopotamia
Danube
United States
Adriatic
English Channel
Royal Navy
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