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Show TheSaltLake Tribune BOOKS ee es | based on sales from more | ean. iiennadintbook than al a1. ie fa nd i - See ‘ ome SEASON mamarmann Courtship, Loveshi Marriage. ‘alice Munro (Vin- Michosl CoeDotaThen) "1h. kuin etanrs Bow A a vote, again destroying her i Jeannette Rankin America’s Censien ha i chance to be re-elected. She claimedlater “that the Novelin Letters. Mark Dunn (Anchor) | By Norma Smith; =e BY MARTIN NAPARSTECK : Roose velt administration had left Japan no choice but to attack the United States | | REGIONALINTERESTBOOK REVIEWS oe TRIBUNE THE TO SPECIAL © .. fohm Kindeonete SeeleySamesanctions designedto Rankin, which means we have be n given an incomplete, distorted human being. Norma Smith, in her biographystiJeanetfe t Rankin, Amei rica’s ColConscience, strives to paint a more complete, honest portrait. ingness to live like the people she most strangle Japan’s economy.’ ined an official residence in Montana, i at Si 4 Gouloureux,c that strikes unexpectedly, sometimesseveral times a day, and causes yanted to help, the poor. But she main- 14 two decades later decided to run for (oy, sress again. Shepartially succeeds. In 1940 she was elected again, and thus, Rankin had worked for decades on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, women’ssuffrage and helped gain their after —},,4 another opportunity to vote on going right to vote in Montana andother states 9 war. Shecast the only no vote, again dewhenshe decided torun in 1916foranewly <troying her chance to be re-elected. She created Montana seatin the U.S. Congress. claimed later “that the Roosevelt administra The gratitude of Montana women was a key tion hadleft Japan no factor in her win, as G % choice but to attack was the political masre ee iS eh the United States by tery of her younger 5 invoking economic brother, Wellington, 3 ‘5 sanctions designed to strangle Japan's econn al 1 who largely managed her campaign (but who omy.” Whenher term about is a long friendship with a young New YorkCitycongressman,Fiorello LaGuardia, who later would become his city’s mayor. LaGuardia, Smith says,pro. | marriage to Rankin “sometimein the mid-twenties. ; ; ata egBooks) 5. Sandy Koufax. Jane 6, A Girl Named Zippy: Haveneeesas) 7. A Heartieeasing Work,Egf Staggering Genius. Dave ser(Vintage=) laterwas unsuccessful in his attempts to be elected to the U.S. Senate). wasup,she didn’t run again, instead moving back to Geo: rgia. In 1968, she found She did not accept, but, Smith writes, “She always spoke of him in terms she used forr almostnooneelse,‘myclose per:r almos : sonal friend.’” But Smithdoes nottellusif in the national spot- relationship. yur Agreements. ee bongelRsAbeAllen Before _ Congress herself unexpectedly convened its regular wit aid Latitudes. Tony Hor 9. The Blank Slate. Steven tye Modern World. Arthur _Hetman (Three Rivers Press) session in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson light when 4,000 women, calling themselves David Rockwet oaTish 1. The Lobster Chronicles. Linda Greenlaw (Hyperion) Michael Kallen endo Gees) LL.Tuesdays With Morrie. Mitch Albom (Broadway) to ask for a declaration of war on Germany. Brigade, igade, piprotested in Washington against Day.David Sedaris (Little ofthe House; 373 voted All of that is re. Pinker (Viking) 2. “Live from New York.” tanese Power of Now. EckhartTale tle (NewVomtiles) Arthurevi m) tevatlDeer Rar: 15. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Daniel Elisberg (Viking) L paperback OR “ (Grove) is Enger 2. Bel Canto. Ann Patchett ‘ Em 10. The Botany of 12. Onion Ad Nauseum. Onion CCG aae GennesW. Bush in the U.S. Congress isms: More of Slate’s Acciden. Protocol. Robert taal (St. Martin’s) Atkins’ New Diet Revolution. Robert © Atkins, MD. (Avon) to Memory. Traitor EathGeorge(Batam) year term was up, she decided to run for the Senate, reasoning that her pacifist views had more support statewide than within her own district. Shelost. al) 8. American Godt Neil Gaiman(Hameriorel Re 9. SearofWomsers, GeralBi (Per e Two Nee tothe ‘No. 1 Ladies’ Detec- Tolkien (Ballantine) Suit (Anchor) Janet Evanovich (Harper) NAtnanoNeeMOA sanet Bvanovich(arpa = a Al ‘ S CIREXin Salt LakeCity | oy is looking for qualitied individuals to participate in a clinical research study thatwill evaluate an_ investigational pain medication following bunion removal. If you qualify lify forfor thisthis study, stud you mayreceive surgery at no rs cost, study medication, and Ww. financial compensation. For more information call: ample: She wasbitten by a cat and said she could havekilled it in anger,butshe didn’t. Smith even suggests that Rankin’s temper might have asked Rankin about any ro- things that would makethis interesting swers, they did not, for whatever reasons, find their way into this otherwise admir ing and admirable biography. 7 Martin Naparsteck reviews books from and about the West for The Salt Lake Tribune. , FAL ona &aye ha i NOVEMBER 21-22 Nov 12 Fe chs W Bricks ater 7:30 i PM / KINGSBURY HALL v N21ova Ei sant 2 General ReservedTickets $15/524/532 Uf U students $5/S10/$10 22-23 nes Monster Truck eoaera Sum 41-Speoial ie DANCE COMPANY Nov 11 KORN Rolling Thunder close friend of Rankin, someone in whom Rankin was willing to confide. Smith row Brown/EVIDENCE Club X-Scape Bes hover(FREE) § abad temper, but she gives us only oneex- hb Zeon Lee year, interviewed Rankin 16 times be- m0 Uniti 9? sketched over. Several times Smithtells us Rankin had Dee Events Center Dec 11, 2002 The Anniversary/The Burning Brides The omissions seem particularly unnecessary because Smith, who died last tween 1963 and 1971, probably more than anyoneelse. She seems to have become a womana more complete human being. If she did ask the questions and got an- Brat Paisley & Daryl Worley The Legendary Pink Dots that meant there was a romantic details that would make Rankin a real human being are % Special sible love interestof herlife that we learn mances, why she never married, for examplesof her temper — about a hundred Rankin moved to Georgia andlivedina may have resulted from a disease, tic te fest Une) ori Viaris(Perenni- €XCruciating pain in the cheek. Her first boutwith7 the disease probably came when She was in herearly 30s. But beyond the cat incident, we neversee the temper. Similarly, Smithtells us Rankin “was ot sexless,” butgiveslittle detail about any romanticrelationships. The one pos- counted in approving detail in Smith’s book. Butother points—the was against going to war.It pretty much assured that she could mak (Scribner) dine the Vietnam War. She marched with them. not be re-elected. Instead, after her two- Evanovich St Martin's) : rections. ceehag (Picador) 5. White Oleander. Janet Fitch (Back Bay) Falling Angels. Tracy Chevalier 1. Goad(Plume) Hest. Anita Dia the Jeannette Rankin Rankin voted no, along with 49 other members yes. Thus,thefirst vote ever cast by a woman Cornwell (Berkley) 2. Violets Are Blue. James ota oe mae aa as Richard called a special session Brown), _14. Savage Beauty. Nancy 1. Isle of aeee mathe | | °. by invoking economic ootta 7 Le Michael Chabon 14, Austerlitz.(Picador) W.G. Sebald eaet an male Papecieck Nosficien 1. Nickel and Dimed. 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