Dorothy Gallagher, Author Rutgers University Press $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-8135-1310-2
Carlo Tresca, flamboyant American anarchist leader, was a working-class hero at the time of his 1943 assassination in New York by contract killer Carmine Galante. Today, he is nearly forgotten, as is the unresolved mystery of who ordered his...
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Dorothy Gallagher, Author Random House (NY) $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-50346-7
Gallagher's previous nonfiction (Hannah's Daughters: Six Generations of an American Family and All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carla Tresca) chronicled other people's lives. Now she turns her considerable talents to her own immigrant...
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Dorothy Gallagher, Author Random House (NY) $22.95 (142p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6257-7
As she proved in her wonderful memoir How I came Into My Inheritance, Gallagher has a perfect ear for the way we live now-particularly if we live in comfortable New York intelligentsia. But really, her stories-of an employee who embezzles money with
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Dorothy Gallagher. Yale Univ., $25 (184p) ISBN 978-0-300-16497-8
Unafraid to question Hellman’s idealized memoirs, Gallagher (Hannah’s Daughters) meets the “unflaggingly famous” dramatist head on in this pithy biography. Gallagher scrutinizes the “only woman playwright of her generation” from multiple angles, but
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