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Show The Salt Lake Tribune BOOKS® Sunday, January 16, 2000 Throwing the Books at Hillary Clinton THE WEST UNDER COVER Take your pick — commanding, congenial, cutthroat, compassionate Reviews of books of regional interest BY LINTON WEEKS 3 ; ; A hard rain of new books about the first lady is and will continue to fall on bookstore By Richard Paul Evans; Simon & Schuster; $17.95 historical-context sentence fails to shelves. Some are by ideologues, others by big-name authors. But —a novel are largely statements no working title, was proposed by Bernstein to Segal and Knopf Edi- Hillary Rodham Clinton in the fullness of contradictory glory — commanding, congenial, cut- Story of veals the real Hillary Clinton — a woman whose lust for power surpasses even that of her husband. The ad copy continues: “Far ‘from being unstained by the i Howard C.Cutler, M.D. River- 11, Sugar Busters! H.LeightonSteward, Morrison C. Bethea, Andrews & $22 Clinton scandals, Olson shows how “in scant ler scan lead to Hillary’ and how,with supremeirony, the most powerful woman in the world has won sympathy — after the Monica Lewinsky scandal — as the globe's pre- mier‘victim.’ “But perhaps more important than the scandals, and even Hillary’s relentless drive for power,is thevision Hillary wants to impose on the country. It isa vision shaped by someof the mostradical thinkers of our time, a vision that harkens backto social engineering on a grandscale, and thatgives freedom a distant second place to govern- mentcontrol.” 1. The Testament. John Grisham,Dell Island, $7.99 2 The Green Mile. Stephen King. Pocket, $7.99 3. Dr.Aticins' New Diet Revolution. Robert C. Atkins, M.D.Avon,$6.50 4. Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt. S&S/Touchstone,$7.99 . The Courtship. Catherine Coulter. Jove, $7.50 6. Southern Cross. Patricia Gail Sheehy’s Hillary’s Choice is an expansion of Sheehy’s muchbuzz-creating psycho-exploration of Hillary Clinton in Vanity Fair magazine during the 1992 campaign. Among other things, the then-candidate’s wife said that folks shouldn’t pick on her husband because it was “apparently well known in Washington” that President Bush had had an extra- marital affair. Hillary Clinton apologized for her remarks. The Hillary Trap: Looking for 9. BabyGirl! Fannie Flagg. Ivy, $1 10. Jewels of the Sun. Nora Roberts. Jove, $7.50 11. The Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet. Dr, Richard Heller and Dr. Rachael Heller. Signet, $6.99 12. Critical Mass. Steve MartiniJove, $7.99 lebration. Fern The Cat Who Saw Stars. Lilian Jackson Braun. Jove, $6.99 15. Angels Flight: Michael Connelly. Warner, $7.99 Powerin All the Right Places, by miniskirted-lawyer-turnedconservative-pundit Laura Ingraham, will appear in the spring: “T'm in total crash modetrying to finishit,” she says. The bookis not a biography ofthe first lady but, Ingraham explains, a portrait of il Clinton as “a symbol of where womenare today, of the conflicts that animate women’s lives on a professional and Trade Paperbacks 1. SnowFalling on Cedars. David Guterson.Vintage, $12 2. A Mapofthe World. Jane Hamilton.Anchor, $12.95 3. Memoirs of Geisha. Arthur Golden.Vintage, $14 e World Almanac and Bookof Facts 2000.Edited by Robert Famighetti. World Almanac Books,$10.95 . The Poisonwood Bible. Barbara Kingsolver. HarperPerennial, $14 s Hill. A. Manette Ansay. Avon,$13 7. Girl, Interrupted. Susanna Kaysen. Vintage, $12 8. A Child Called “It.” DavePelzer. Health Communications,$9. 9. The Pilot's Wife. Anita Shreve. Little, Brown/Back Bay, 95 10. Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt. S&S/Touchstone,$14 Debbie Hummel i Where the Buffalo Roam: One volume-in the works is by Hillary Rodham Clinton herself. An Invitation to the White House is scheduled to be pub- * lished by Simon & Schuster in the spring. The coffeetable tome isa behind-the-scenes look at entertaining at 1600 Pennsylvania and will include menusfrom state dinners and notes on decor. personal level.” Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and authorof Strictly Speaking,is writing The Against Hillary Clinton for publication by the Judith Regan imprint of HarperCollins sometime next year. The book is an expansion of Noonan’s June 1999 Wall Street Journal piece “The Mad Boomer.” Of Hillary Clinton’s nascent senatorial campaign in New York, Noonan wrote in the newspaper, “T6 say to this great state full of gifted people that you deserve to be its senator is an act of such mad boomerselfishness and narcissism thatevenfrom the Clintons — the Gimme and Getme of Ameri- can politics — it is an act of utter and breathtaking gall. “And of course she may well win. “Modern people have a way of absorbing the brazen,factoring it in,in time discounting it. For some New Yorkers,gall isn’t a flaw buta lifestyle choice, one of the seven by poets Robert Firmage and 3300 South at 7 p.m. Stum will also havea reading andsigning eventat Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 1780 N. Woodland Park Drive, Layton on Friday at7 p.m. third floor auditorium at209 E. City’s “peculiar inhabitants.”) Evansdoes it. The Looking Glass Mormons seem to play only a mi- City tabloids in 1857; there may norrole. Huh? not been particularly helpful. One volume in the works is by thefirst lady herself. An Invitation have been sensationalistic reporting in Salt Lake City then, but the term “tabloid” was not used to re- This is, after all, largely a religiousnovel. The maleprotagonist, Hunter Bell, is a Presbyterian fer to newspapers ofany type until be published by Simon & Schuster in the spring. The coffee-table told also that at a grotesque sporting event — a fight between a bull anda grizzly —a brass band plays and in mostcases herfriends have tomeis a behind-the-scenes look at Hillary Clinton has already White House. Jt Takes a Village, Spangled Banner”did not become commonatsporting events until World War I, when a band at a lady’s thoughts on children and Boston Braves baseball gameintroduced it as a patriotic gesture. penned two books while in the published in 1996,reflects thefirst children’s issues, and sold well — Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets, was published in 1998 and hit the remainder tables faster than youcan say kitty litter. But will the first lady eventu- ally write a take-names,tell-all book about her tumultuous years in the White House? “She has indicated that she'd like to write another book,” says White House lication prize from the Utah ws23 wav as 18-129 128-1729 ins mw mw wes 2 n ‘EVENT NAME Orpheus & Eurydice (Utah Opera) Elanie Page (UT Symph-Pops) The Peking Acrobats Shy Hag’s Magic Shadow Show (Ririe-Woodbury) Jerzy Semkov (UT Symph-Mastrwrks) Mark Twain Tonight Jekyll & Hyde ‘Two-Headed (Salt Lake Acting Co.) Carlos Kalmar (UT Symph-Mastrweris) ‘Retro-Active (OPUS) (Magic Circle Mime (UT Symph-Family Series) in fact, whatis sometimescalled a God story. Little mention of Mormons. No mention of President Buchanan sending the U.S. Armyto Utah to exert control over the territory. No mention of Mormons and Paiutes murdering 100 or more members of a wagon train at neither the novel's plot nor characterizations are dependent on any of them. Yet the novel con- Mountain Meadows(the participants may have engaged in a cover-up, but they were not able to tains dozens ofcarelessly selected keep the massacre secret; the fact or plainly inaccurate details, enough to create doubts in the mindof the knowledgeable reader about more important matters, like plot and characterization. History for the novelist, of that it happened was immediately and widely known). No mention of Brigham Young putting Utah undermilitary rule to fight the U.S. army. These things happened exactly at the time mostof the novel takes place, 1857. The Looking Glass is about a Presbyterian minister who saves course, is more than facts.It is “Writing is time-consuming” and the first lady is extremely busy these days, Berry says, then adds, “She would be the best per- sidered by many as unnatural or also historical interpretation. At onepoint, Evans writes, “Bathing was not a regular ritual of the be more substantive than Dear ks. an Irish Catholic worhan from her abusive husband, a minister who western life. It was, in fact, con- becomes wealthy almost accidentally by finding gold by virtually wicked.” Thefacts of the sentence are accurate, but presenting them stumbling over it, about good peo- without other facts suggests an - son to write a book aboutherself.” Of the host of Hillary Rodham interpretation that can easily be misinterpreted. Seldom washing and defending that lack of cleanliness was part ofalmostall cultures that lacked indoor plumb- Clinton biographies on the horizon, her lawyer — and agent —Bob Barnett says, “The only book about Mrs. Clinton that readers will buy in large numbers and that ing, which, of course, means almost all cultures in human will be truly insightful will be her history. Carrying enough water to bathe on a daily basis was clearly own.” people are invited to attend the free meeting at the Sweet Library, 455 N. F Street in Salt Lake City at 7 p.m. The Salt Lake Tribune’s book « novel Alias Grace. The book is based on thetrue story of Grace Marks,oneofthe most“celebrated” womenofthe 19th cen- lieutenan' in the Police Department, Zelig’s insight and expertise should prove informative. Those who haveread the book as well as anyotherinterested UPCOMING EVENTS DATE OF SHOW God, doubt God, accept God.It is, It did not becomethe national anthem until 1931. ‘These are all small details, and spokeswoman Marsha Berry. Though Berry says she’s not sure whatthe subject would be,it would sic psychologistas well as a and captain ofthefire department; his first book, Trudi Smiles Back, wonthe 1998 pub- protagonist, Quaye, is an Irish Catholic whoalso talks about God. These characters reject God, love Spangled Banner”; that, of course, is possible, but it seems unlikely since the playing of “The Star- andwill include menus fromstate dinners andnotes on decor. etry andthree translations. minister who wrestles with his conscience and who makes dozens of references to the Bible, to God, to things religious. The female a “tortured” version of “The Star- entertaining at 1600 Pennsylvania club will meet Wednesday to discuss the Margaret Atwood. is set in a state, Utah, in which the very early 20th century. We're to the White House is scheduled to tury, who was convicted of murderat theage of 16. Lt. Mark Zelig of the Salt Lake Police Departmentwill be a guest presenterat the event. A foren- Lofgrenis a formerlieutenant 1857; that’s 16 years before Levi pair of trousers. Weare told about articles that appear in Salt Lake sorat the University of Utah, has published six booksof po- 500 South Wednesdayat7 p.m. Firmage, a philosophy profes- ence to Mormons? (Actually, on the following page we get a second reference, this time to Salt Lake Strauss manufactured his first Already there are more than WednesdayIs Full of Grace: Live Writers: City Art and Writers Live presenta reading Consider some historical minutiae. One: of the characters wears Levi Strauss “trousers” in two dozen books about Hillary Clinton in print. None has been a blockbuster. The first lady has not cooperated with any biographer, State Poetry Society. ing reading series Wednesday nightat the MainLibrary, be held Tuesdayat REI, 3285 E. other things in the works. That’s OK.” than 600,000 in print. ‘Mikal Lofgrenin their continu- Island and the Great Salt Lake, will present a reading,signing in 1857 with only a one-page refer- full-length portrait. “We don’t want to rush it. I know there are Free-lance journalist Marlin andslide show.Theeventwill out noting there's a Civil War raging? How about a novelin Utah “We don’t want a quickie,” Segal says. Bernstein's book will be a Stum and Utah photographer Dan Miller, whocollaborated on the bookVisions ofAntelope novel set in Georgia in 1864 with- adds. READINGS & SIGNINGS Compiled by portant matter of historical background. Can a novelist write a credible novel about, say, South Africa in 1960 with all white charactets and never mention, or mention only in passing, that are ks there? Or a she gains the Senate or not,” Segal on- camera Clinton critic. The bookis produced by Washington-based Regnery Publishing, the rightleaning publisher of recent works blurb on Hell to Pay, “Olson re- without contexts. Then there’s the even more im- Clinton would include her final daysin the White House, “whether Rodham Clinton, by Barbara Olson, a former federal cal constructs throughout the Richard Paul Evans has written his fifth novel for adults, The y Wass, a historical novel convincing. it out was Hell to Pay: The Ur recognize that. In fact, his histori- BY MARTIN NAPARSTECK SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE throat, compassionate, » ed, concerned, conceited, johnson. Putnam, $19.95 6. Have A Nice Day! Mick Foley. ReganBooks, $25 7. The Greatest Generation. Tom Brokaw. Random House, 8. Guinness World Records 2000: jum Guinness Publishing, $25 9. The Greatest Generation ‘Speaks. Tom Brokaw. Random House, $19.95 10. The of than our ancestors; we just have better plumbing. Evans’ out-of- taken together, the books paint , $26 5. Who Moved My Cheese? impractical. We're not cleaner The Looking Gh ‘THE WASHINGTON POST 3 The impending Party: Lory Smith, authorof Party Ina Box: The Story ofthe Sundance Film Festival, is holding a timely signing of the book Fri- day at Sam Weller’s Books,254 S. Main Street at 7 p.m. The bookis a 20-year retrospective on the emergence,shaping and future of the Sundance Film Festival, whose 2000 version kicks off the evening before this event. 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