ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 2 0 6 / C&RL News ■ March 2003 N e w P u b l i c a t i o n s George M. Eberhart Black Congressmen during Reconstruction, edited by Stephen Middleton (444 pages, Decem­ b e r 2002), brings to g eth er selected sp eech es o f the 22 black m en w ho served in the U.S. Congress betw een 1870 and 1901. Among them are Hiram R hodes Revels (R-Miss.), the first black p e rso n elected to the Senate, w h o w as ch o sen to fill the vacated seat o f Confederate p resident Jefferson Davis; Robert B row n Elliott (R-S.C.), w h o spoke elo q u en tly o n the Civil Rights Bill o f 1875; an d George Henry White (R-N.G), the only black con­ gressman from 1897 to 1901, w ho often rem inded his colleagues that h e w as the sole representative for 9 million black Americans. The w ords spoken by these m en in the House and Senate shed much- n eed ed light o n the state o f race relations in 19th- cen tu ry America. $94.95. G reen w o o d . ISBN 0- 313-32281-3. Black Firsts, by Jessie Carney Smith (787 pages, 2d ed., D ecem ber 2002), u p d ates the 1994 edi­ tion w ith 1,000 n e w a n d m any o th er revised en ­ tries that docum ent the pioneering achievements o f b lack p e o p le in th e arts a n d entertainm ent, b u s in e s s , civil rig h ts, e d u c a ­ tio n , g o v e r n ­ m en t, jo u rn a l­ ism, the military, o rg a n iz a tio n s , religion, science, sports, and writ­ ing. The b o o k is filled w ith m any fascinating facts. F o r e x a m p le , th e first b la c k a s tr o n a u t w as A rnaldo T am ayo-M endez, a C u b an w h o flew a b o a rd th e Soviet Soyuz 38 in 1980, p receding the first black American in space b y three years; the first black w om an to graduate from college in the United States w as Lucy Ann Stanton (Oberlin, 1850); W ynton Marsalis w as the first jazz artist to w in th e Pulitzer Prize for m usic (1997); a n d the George M. E berhart is senior e d ito r o f A m erican Libraries; e-mail: geberhart@ ala.org first public library to provide service exclusively for th e black comm unity w as the Louisville West­ ern B ranch Library in 1905. $58.00. Visible Ink. ISBN 1-57859-153-8. A Chinese Bestiary, e d ite d b y R ichard E. Strassberg (314 p ag es, Ju ly 2002), is a tran sla­ tio n o f a n d c o m m e n ta r y o n p o r tio n s o f th e Shanhaijing, orthe Guideways through Mountains a n d Seas, a co sm o g rap h y originally com piled d u r in g th e 4 th to th e 1st c e n tu r ie s B.C. In ­ clu d e d are 350 d escrip tio n s o f gods, dem ons, m onsters, an d foreign tribes th a t dem o n strate h o w th e C hinese p e rc e iv e d an intelligible sa­ c re d o r d e r w ith in th e n a tu ra l w o rld . U nlike E u ro p e a n bestiaries th a t e m b e d d e d C hristian allegory w ith in ea c h a n im al’s description, the Shanhaijing a ssu m ed th e literal tru th o f each strange hybrid creature it described. Strassberg adds considerable interest by accom panying the te x t w ith a se t o f 76 illustrations d e sig n e d b y th e 16th-century artisan Jia n g Y inghao. A nne Birrell’s The Classic o fM ountains and Seas (Pen­ guin, 1999) is a m o re co m p lete b u t m inim ally a n n o ta t e d tr a n s la tio n o f th e Shanhaijing. $75.00. U niversity o f C alifornia. ISBN 0-520- 21844-2. Dissent in the Heartland, b y M ary A nn W ynkoop (214 pages, O cto b er 2002), is a n ex ­ ce lle n t p o rtra y a l o f s tu d e n t activ ism at In d i­ a n a U niversity in th e 1960s a n d 1970s. B ased o n m an y interview s w ith participants, as w ell as FBI files a n d university records, W y n k o o p sh o w s h o w th e antiw ar, civil-rights, s tu d e n t- rights, a n d feminist m ovem ents d e v elo p e d and th riv e d o n this M id w estern c a m p u s far aw ay from th e traditional cen te rs o f c o u n tercu ltu re o n th e coasts a n d in C hicago. $19.95. In d ian a U niversity. ISBN 0-253-34118-3. Encyclopedia of Terrorism, b y H arvey W K u sh n e r (523 p ag es, D e c e m b e r 2002), offers an overview o f global terrorism w ith m ore th an 300 e n tr ie s o n in d iv id u a ls , g r o u p s , e v e n ts , m ethods, an d theoretical perspectives. Kushner, a p ro fe s s o r o f crim inal justice at Long Islan d University, has served as a consultant o n interna­ tional terrorism to various courts and governm ent mailto:geberhart@ala.org C&RL News ■ March 2003 / 207 agencies. This is a well-organized reference book, w ith ap p en d ic es that provide Web sites, m aps, and a chronology o f terrorism from 1865 to 2002. $99.95. Sage. ISBN 0-7619-2408-6. Footsteps in the Attic, by Paul F. Eno (167 pages, O ctober 2002), narra te s the author’s inves­ tigations into ghostly phenom ena in New England and offers som e space-time speculations on w hy su c h things occur. A form er n e w s ed ito r w ith the ProvidenceJ ournal, Eno first warns that some seem ingly paranorm al events have a neuropsy­ chiatric e x p la n a tio n a n d that eerie m anifesta­ tio n s c a n also b e g e n e ra te d b y v ery -lo w -fre­ q u en cy so u n d w aves. Others are not so readily explainable, an d Eno goes o n to detail 16 cases o f apparitions, hauntings, an d poltergeists that h e h a s lo o k e d into. A se q u e l to th e a u th o r ’s Faces a t the Window (1998). $14.95. N ew River P ress. ISBN 1-891724-02-9. Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco, b y Je ff K raft a n d A a ro n L eventhal (286 p ag es, O cto b er 2002), revisits th e locations in th e Bay area m ad e fam ous by H itc h c o c k ’s film s, e s p e c ia lly S an ta R osa (Shadow o f a Doubt, 1943); Big Basin State Park, th e A v e n u e o f Tall T rees, M ission D o lo re s , M ission San J u a n B autista, a n d th e stre e ts o f San Francisco (Vertigo, 1958); an d Bodega Bay (The Birds, 1963). B eginning w ith a fo rew o rd b y H itc h c o c k ’s d a u g h te r P atricia, th is b o o k e x p lo re s th e d ire c to r’s love o f n o rth e rn Cali­ fornia an d docum ents the steps he took in m ak­ ing these an d oth er films in the area, all accom ­ p a n ie d b y archival a n d co n tem p o rary p h o to s to m a k e this a u sefu l tra v e le r’s g uide. Librar­ ian s w ill a p p re c ia te th e c o m m e n ta ry o n th e appearance in Shadow o f a Doubt o f the former Carnegie library in Santa Rosa— dem olished in 1965 a n d r e p l a c e d b y th e p r e s e n t S o n o m a C o u n ty P u b lic Library. $24.95. Santa M onica Press. ISBN 1-891661-27-2. A History of the French New Wave Cin­ ema, b y R ichard N eu p ert (342 pages, D ecem ­ b e r 2002), ex am in es the dram atic avant-garde film s m a d e b y y o u n g a n d in n o v ativ e F ren ch directors from 1958 to 1964 th at injected n e w life in to w o rld w id e cinem a. N e u p e rt fo cu ses not only o n th e core auteurs Truffaut, Chabrol, a n d G o d a rd , b u t th e ir p r e d e c e s s o r s R o g er Vadim a n d Louis Malle, a n d th e ir su ccesso rs Eric R o h m e r, J a c q u e s R ivette, a n d J a c q u e s D o n io l-V alcro ze. $24.95. U n iv ersity o f W is­ c o n sin . ISBN 0-299-18164-2. The Moonlandings: An Eyewitness Ac­ count, b y R eginald T u rn ill (456 p a g e s, D e ­ cem ber 2002), is the m em oir by BBC aerospace c o rre sp o n d e n t Turnill, w h o c o v e re d m a n n e d space missions for the BBC, from Yuri G agarin’s first flight in 1961 to th e jo in t S oviet-A m eri­ c a n m issio n in 1975, a n d c o n tin u e d o n a freelance basis afterw ards. At 87, h e is still o n the lecture circuit. H e k n e w m an y o f th e early a s tro n a u ts a n d s p a c e p io n e e r s , in c lu d in g W ernher v o n B raun, w h o se V2 rockets falling o n L ondon h a d ca u se d th e p rem atu re birth of Turnill’s son an d w h o se 1969 plan for a perm a­ n e n t lu n a r b a se b y 1985 a n d a Mars b a s e by 1989 is revealed here. Turnill w as the first jour­ n a list to b r e a k th e n e w s in 1970 th a t A pollo 13 h a d b e e n crip p le d b y an explosion; h e re ­ tells th a t story, as w ell as o th e r dram as in the U.S. an d Soviet space programs. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin co n trib u ted the fo rew ord to this engag­ ing an d whimsical narrative. $27.00. Cambridge U niversity. ISBN 0-521-81595-9. 208 / C&RL News ■ March 2003 The Oxford History of Byzantium, e d ­ ite d b y Cyril M a n g o (334 p a g e s , D e c e m b e r 2002), surv ey s th e history, art, a n d c u ltu re o f th e B yzantine E m pire from its R om an origins to its fall to th e O tto m a n s in 1453. T e n c o n ­ tributing w riters offer insight into se le c te d as­ pects o f th e era, w hile Cyril an d Marlia M undell M ango tie th e m to g e th e r w ith essay s o n p il­ grim age, icons, a n d m onasticism , as w ell as a su p e r b array o f acc o m p a n y in g p h o to g ra p h s , m ap s, a n d d raw in g s th a t b rin g th e e m p ire to life. $45.00. O x fo rd U n iv ersity . ISBN 0-18- 8 1 4 098-3. Surviving the Confederacy, by J o h n C. W augh (447 p ag es, O c to b e r 2002), chronicles th e life o f a p r o m in e n t R ic h m o n d c o u p le , Roger an d Sarah Pryor, w h o se writings are cen ­ tral to u n d erstan d in g life in Virginia during the Civil War. W augh retells th eir tale in a n en g ag ­ ing n arrativ e fashion, a c c o m p a n ie d b y a b u n ­ d a n t docum entation. Editor an d attorney Pryor w as an ardent secessionist before th e w ar, then le d a b r ig a d e in th e A rm y o f N o rth e r n V ir­ ginia; S ara’s d e s c rip tio n o f h a rd s h ip s o n th e h o m e front, especially d u rin g th e siege o f P e­ tersb u rg , are vividly re c o u n te d . An excellent, un derstandable portrayal o f the forces that tore th e c o u n try a p a rt 140 years ago. $28.00. The Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues, by J o s e p h P. H e ste r (285 p a g e s, J a n u a r y 2003), explores the controversy over h o w an d w hether Judeo-C hristian ethical ru les can b e ap p lie d to leg islatio n a n d litigation in th e U n ited States. B eginning w ith th e origin an d m ean in g o f th e biblical co m m an d m en ts a n d th e d e v elo p m en t o f ethics a n d reflective morality, H ester ex am ­ in es th e b a sic A m erican c o n stitu tio n a l p r i n ­ ciple o f the sep aratio n o f ch u rch a n d state an d w h e th e r an ethical com prom ise is possible b e ­ tw e e n th e religious a n d th e secular. H e looks at such specific issues as faith-based initiatives, p o stin g th e c o m m a n d m e n ts o n p u b lic b u ild ­ ings, c h a ra c te r ed u c a tio n , th e p le d g e o f alle­ giance, creationism , p ra y e r in p u b lic schools, blu e laws, stem cell research, euthanasia, capi­ tal p u n is h m e n t, pacifism , ab o rtio n , relig io u s profiling, a n d covenant marriage. The com m en­ tary is b a la n c e d a n d w ell-research ed . $45.00. M cF arlan d . ISBN 0-7864-1419-7. ■ C&RL News ■ March 2003 / 209