Ruth Harris, Metropolitan, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7471-0
Harris (Lourdes) revisits that notorious miscarriage of justice, the Dreyfus affair. Alfred Dreyfus, a dedicated Jewish French army captain was convicted of spying for Germany based on flimsy and fabricated evidence, and sentenced in 1895 to life on
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Ruth Harris, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-394-56556-9
In this entertaining story spanning 1944 to 1988, Harris (The Rich and the Beautiful) again portrays characters who try to assuage their emotional pain by amassing wealth. Russell Dahlen is an immensely rich New Yorker whose family gave its name to...
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Ruth Harris, Author St. Martin's Press $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-92272-6
Harris traces the histories of three women, their careers, lovers and husbands, along the tumultuous timelines of the '60s and '70s as they seek fame and fortune in the New York publishing and journalistic milieu. ``While sprightly and replete with...
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Ruth Harris, Author Viking Books $34.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-87905-2
This is a deftly balanced history of religious pilgrimage to the small town of Lourdes in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. Harris crafts a book that simultaneously provides a historical context of the pilgrimage for religious readers and...
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Ruth Harris, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (439p) ISBN 978-0-312-03402-3
Like so many other books that explore the impact that the sexual revolution and women's liberation movement had on the professional and romantic lives of female characters, Harris's ( Love and Money ) latest novel begins, in a predictably trite...
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Ruth Harris. Belknap, $39.95 (558p) ISBN 978-0-674-24747-5
Historian Harris (The Man on Devil’s Island) delivers a granular biography of 19th-century Indian monk Vivekananda, née Narendranath Datta, who helped introduce yoga and the Vedanta school of Hinduism to the English-speaking world. Seeking to “restor
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