Elinor Burkett, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-052442-5
"I'm not a danger junkie," Burkett (Another Planet
, etc.) declared at the start of her Fulbright year with her husband in Kyrgyzstan on September 18, 2001. In a burst of midlife ennui, the two wanted to move somewhere where she could...
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Elinor Burkett, Author . HarperCollins $27.95 (483p) ISBN 978-0-06-078665-6
As Israel's prime minister from 1969 to 1974, Golda Meir (1898–1978) was recognized by her wrinkled face and gray bun. But, Burkett (Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School
) says in this sympathetic but balanced...
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Elinor Burkett, Author Free Press $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-86303-0
We may think of babies as ""bundles of joy,"" but according to Burkett they are also bundles of cash--for their parents. In this provocative and well-documented study, the journalist and former history professor (Representative Mom, etc.) presents a
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Elinor Burkett, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (399p) ISBN 978-0-395-74537-3
A few pages into this acerbic, compelling and morally acute examination of American responses to the AIDS crisis, Burkett deftly plays raucous gay activist Larry Kramer off against researcher Robert Gallo; their careers, she demonstrates, dramatize...
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Elinor Burkett, Author, Frank Bruni, With Viking Books $22.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-84828-7
In this riveting, disturbing expose, journalists Burkett of the Miami Herald and Bruni of the Detroit Free Press , present an indictment of not only pedophiliac priests, but also of a church hierarchy that is interested more in concealment than...
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Eli Burkett, Author, Elinor Burkett, Author . HarperCollins $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-621148-0
In the wake of Columbine, journalist Burkett (The Baby Boon) attempts to plumb the mysteries of suburban high school by spending the 1999–2000 school year at Prior Lake High School in Prior Lake, Minn., near Minneapolis. In expanding what...
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