THE PATRIARCH: The Remarkable Life as well as Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, by David Nasaw. (Penguin Press, $ 40.) This riveting story captures the brush of Kennedy's life as Wall Street speculator, moviemaker, ambassador as well as dynastic founder.
MARRIED LOVE: And Other Stories, by Tessa Hadley. (Harper Perennial, paper, $ 14.99.) Hadley's understatedly pleasing pick up is filled with masterfully calibrated gradations as well as expressions of class.
DARKEST AMERICA: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop, by Yuval Taylor as well as Jake Austen. (Norton, $ 26.95.) The authors inspect the formidable story of black performers as well as the minstrel tradition.
ON SAUDI ARABIA: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines as well as Future, by Karen Elliott House. (Knopf, $ 28.95.) A Pulitzer-Prize-winning publisher unveils this inscrutable country, comparing the calcified system of administration to the Soviet Union in the final days.
DEAR LIFE: Sto! ries , by Alice Munro. (Knopf, $ 26.95.) This volume offers serve explanation of Munro's mastery, as well as shows her striking out in the citation of the new, late character that sums up her total career.
MARVEL COMICS: The Untold Story, by Sean Howe. (Harper/HarperCollins, $ 26.99.) Howe has picked up the story of this scrappy company with the fanboy's dedication to continuity as well as detail.
THE PARTISAN: The Life of William Rehnquist, by John A. Jenkins. (PublicAffairs, $ 28.99.) Rehnquist's greatest change was as the indication for the new multiply of ideological justices, this prudent account argues.
LA FOLIE BAUDELAIRE, by Roberto Calasso. Translated by Alastair McEwen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $ 35.) A severe study of 19th-century art.
THAT'S NOT A FEELING, by Dan Josefson. (Soho, paper, $ 15.95.) This mordant, cockeyed first novel is set during the "School for Troubled Teens."
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