European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dolly Parton has produced an autobiography. Oily Parton told Jane Pauley she spends i m her time counting her blessings rather i i than her Money. In both cases that la i take a lot of fingers and toes. Best known As the twangy country Singer from Pigeon forge tenn., Parton is actually a Many hyphenated woman with a $110 million Fortune she san accomplished songwriter actress a theme Park owner and most recently author. Her new autobiography Dolly my life and other unfinished business Harper Collin reveals much More than her cleavage spilling outfits. A although i look like a drag Queens Christmas tree on the outside a she jokes in chapter 11, a i am at heart a Sim pie country  Parton 48, details most everything growing up in extreme poverty Why she chose not to have children plastic surgery friends who be tried to blackmail her and the inspiration for her record breaking hit j wiil always love you. One of her most personal revelations is about her 18-month struggle with depression. Quot the dreamy Little kid from the mountains Quot she writes a had become a fat disillusioned hopeless  Sonia Mij Rray Atlanta Constitution 7 reviews ? 7 v .77 no Ordinary time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon amp schuster. Franklin Roosevelt was fortunate to serve As president in an Era when what americans wanted was a father of their country not a husband. Roosevelt was vastly successful As a father per Suader restoring his nation s Confidence during the great depression and mobilizing the resources of a free people in the cause of destroying fascist tyranny. He was by contrast a frustrated and failed husband. Goodwin explores the presidency of Roosevelt Between 1940 and 1945, and the presidents relations with his unconventional Circle of intimates. The subject of Goodwin s Book is the most fascinating presidential character that any historian could study. In a Book that san engrossing read she shows How a charming dissembling seemingly superficial Man was Able to focus brilliantly on the preparation and execution of a great War. A Goodwin is known Incristo rians circles for her studies of Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy family and has found a wider audience on Ken bums pub lie television documentary baseball. Roosevelt had an unconventional marriage. The president had not slept with his wife in More than 20 years since she had discovered his affair with her social Secretary Lucy Mercer. For preferred the social company of other women including a Secretary who became the a other wife Quot when Eleanor Roosevelt was away on frequent travels. The first lady in turn was involved on an emotional level with friends ranging from a Young male Radical to a lesbian journalist who lived in the White House. Roosevelt emerges in the Book As a lonely Man a kind of emotional cripple who needed company but was unable to give of himself to others. Beset by Bur Dens of War he twice tried to persuade his spouse to cease her travels and take care of him As a wife in the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt refused to be so confined. She bestowed advice rather than care on her husband. She was however invaluable As a social conscience campaigning for the rights of women and Blacks and making sure that pressures of War did not Roll Back social gains of the new Deal. In a measure of his times Roosevelt was protected by those who serve As Washington a attack dogs today. \ a nowadays the careers of White House photographers Are made by shots of George Bush throwing up at a state dinner in Japan or Gerald Ford turn bling Down a stairway. By contrast the polio stricken Roosevelt was never photographed in a wheelchair. Photographers lowered their cameras when he was lifted into or out of a car. Anyone who violated the unwritten Rule received a a nudge Quot sometimes hard enough to Send camera crashing to ground. Joel Connelly Seattle Post intelligencer the Day before America changing the nature of e continent by William h. Macleish Houghton Mifflin. V this is titled a bit modestly. William Macleish actually addresses several millennia of the Days before Columbus a arrival. That he does so in 249 pages of text and another 28 of enlightening source notes is remarkable. On a pages per millennium basis it May be a record for Brevity. Multicultural its and revisionists seeking Blanket damnation of All Columbus wrought will be disappointed in the Book but so will those who consider Europe a remaking of the american continent Manifest destiny. Macleish hardly denies the mind boggling ecological Impact of european settlement but neither can he endorse the simplistic Earth Day hyperbole of american indians As natural born environmentalists. A. A Robert Kerr commercial Appeal a play land by John Gregory Dunne random House. Hollywood is the primary setting. This dredges up. Remembrances of True confessions Dunne s fantastically Good second novel. In fact jumping in for a Cameo appearance in play land is Tom Spellacy the homicide detective from True confessions who once again if All too briefly shows up at the scene of another grisly Hollywood murder. / _ Walter Veazey Scripps Howard getting Over Tom by Abigail Thomas Algonquin books of Chapel Hill. Women who fall for the wrong men is the primary subject of Thomas first collection of Short fiction. Spanning about 40 years these stories Are pleasant easy to read and a Safe gift for someone you Don t know very Well. There a Virginia who narrates our pieces set in the �?T50s, married and pregnant too Young she tries to make the Best of a terrible situation a to Tell the truth i liked it better before when we did no to do it. I liked it better in cars when your breath sounded like something inside you had broken. I liked not doing it better than i like doing  then there a Louise a menopausal Mother of four who begins an affair with a 20-year-old construction worker. A Louise feels like a summer House this kid has broken into pushing his Way through doors that Haven to been opened in years. A Fine honorable old House and he appreciates the Way it has been made the Way it has lasted the strength of its Structure Noble old  Thomas never bashes men and her women Are not helpless victims a Erika Taylor los Angeles times est Seu Kronew York times list hardback fiction 1 debt of Honor by Tom Clancy last week 1 weeks on list 6 2 Tattoo by Anne Rice first week on list a a. 3 nothing lists forever by Sidney Sheldon last week 2 weeks of list 3 4 the body farm by Patricia Cornwell last week 3 weeks on list 4. S the celesta is prophecy by James Redfield last week 4 weeks on list 32 b poll test Correct bedtime stories by James finn Garner last week 5 weeks on list 16. A. A. A 7 hit a let by Danielle steel last week 6 weeks on list 11. Quot a a i the Bridges of Madtson county by Robert James Waller last week 7 weeks on list 113. 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B having our Bay by Sara Loriany weeks on list 2 9 love can bund a Bridga by Naomi Judd first week on list. 10 where Ang Ahwai by Joan Wester Anderson weeks on list 39. 11 satan big to Puac by Peter d. Kramer weeks on list 20 12 1 know Why Bia caged Bird sings by Maya Angelou weeks on list 00 13 mama mates up her mind by Bailey White weeks on list 23 14 you belong to me by Ann Rule weeks on list 6 15 Dakota by Kathleen Norris weeks on list 2 a a 15 pm hot abrupt a by Susanna Kaysen Weeta on Hal 22 17 the sent Paatala by Galt Sheehy weeks on list 69 1b a Book of. Angela by Sophy Burnham weeks on list 12 miscellaneous 1 Gump Smi the wit and Wisdom of Borreil Gump by Winston Groom weeks on list 7 2 Homicidal psycho Jungle cat by Bill Watterson first week on list 3 the Levin habit of highly Tefle Calva people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on Hal 186 4 what to expect when you re expecting by Arlene Eisenberg Heidi e. Murkoff and Sandee a. Hathaway weeks on Lisi 48 october 9, 1994 sunday