Books by Osha Gray Davidson and Complete Book Reviews
Osha Gray Davidson, Author . Public Affairs $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58648-000-4
Pulitzer-nominee Davidson (The Best of Enemies) offers the reader an eloquent ecocautionary tale wrapped in a scientific mystery. Sea turtles have thrived for more than 100 million years. Now their existence is threatened not only by human...
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Osha Gray Davidson, Author John Wiley & Sons $35.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-471-17727-2
""Coral reefs are the proving ground for mankind's ability to `come to terms with nature'--including our own,"" writes Davidson (The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South), who has lived in Key West and studied coral reefs (both...
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Osha Gray Davidson, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (306p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1904-9
Neither an expose nor a polemic, this book bogs down in description while stinting on hard analysis. Davidson ( Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto ) intersperses several set pieces--on the 1988 schoolyard massacre in Stockton,...
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Osha Gray Davidson, Author Scribner Book Company $24.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19759-3
Billed as the story of the friendship between black activist Ann Atwater and ex-Klansman C. P. Ellis (whose story was broached in Studs Terkel's Race), this book actually devotes few pages to that relationship. Rather, Davidson (Broken Heartland)...
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