cover image Bullwhip Days

Bullwhip Days

Mellon. Quill, $14 (480pp) ISBN 978-0-380-70884-0

``Twenty-nine oral histories and additional excerpts, selected from 2000 interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s for a WPA Federal Writers Project, document the conditions of slavery that, Mellon maintains, lie at the root of today's racism,'' reported PW. Photos. (Aug.)