Helen Epstein, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (326p) ISBN 978-0-374-28152-6
Epstein, a public health specialist and molecular biologist who has worked on AIDS vaccine research, overturns many of our received notions about why AIDS is rampant in Africa and what to do about it. She charges that Western governments and...
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Helen Epstein, Author Little Brown and Company $24.95 (554p) ISBN 978-0-316-24604-0
After writing an article in 1976 about Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, Epstein became close to the impresario and was to become his authorized biographer, but he changed his mind. This book was researched after Papp's death in 1991 with the...
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Helen Epstein, Author Little Brown and Company $24.45 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-24608-8
This eloquent memoir by freelance journalist Epstein (Children of the Holocaust) traces her mother's Czech-Jewish family back through three generations. The author's prodigious research, based on interviews and archival material housed in four...
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Helen Epstein. Columbia Global Reports, $14.99 trade paper (220p) ISBN 978-0-9977229-2-5
In this relentlessly angry but convincing polemic, Epstein (The Invisible Cure), visiting professor of global public health and human rights at Bard College, exposes the corrupt and murderous regime of Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda for over...
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