Christina Vella, Author . Free Press $26 (395p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5046-7
Courtroom buffs captivated by such media circuses as the Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson trials should relish Vella's retelling of a crime that in its day was as notorious. The 1902 stabbing of an aristocratic Italian doctor in his home in...
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Christina Vella, Author Louisiana State University Press $34.95 (425p) ISBN 978-0-8071-2144-3
Nineteenth-century New Orleans and Paris were towns of magnificent balls, squalid smells, unstable governments and bungling quack doctors. Both cities were home to Micaela Almonester, the Baroness de Pontalba, and both are still home to her legacies:
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Christina Vella. Louisiana State Univ, $38 (456p) ISBN 978-0-8071-6074-9
Carver looms large as an early 20th-century peanut scientist and inventor from Booker T. Washington’s famed Tuskegee Institute, but historian Vella (Indecent Secrets) reveals how he survived not only a hardscrabble youth, but also the underfurnished,
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