The history of my shoes and the evolution of Darwin's theory

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Toby Marotta

**From LibraryThing:** A groundbreaking book about a groundbreaking college class. Students all over America, including from Harvard, were graduating into the "Summer of Love" when everything began to change. I'm proud to have worked as Toby Marotta's assistant on this book, editing his extensive taped interviews and conversations with his Harvard classmates into literate text. The book was done in the late 70s, so ten years after graduation. The course of cultural transformation -- especially for gay men -- is apparent in that decade. This book is a wonderful statement about the maturation of gay consciousness in the period after Stonewall. And, of course, it was iconoclastic when it first came out: Who knew there were homosexuals at Harvard? This book helped wake up American culture (and Harvard culture) to the reality of gay consciousness and challenged stereotypes. And the guys Toby interviewed were really appealing men. It's neat to see into their lives.

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David Nuffer

"The Best Friend I Ever Had" is an unusual non--fiction book about people the author has known over the past 30 years -- people who knew Ernest Hemingway. Among them are Hemingway's wife, Mary; his son, Patrick; his friends in Cuba at mid-century; a jai-alai champion; and his best friend in Ketchum, Idaho, over the 22 years that he visited or lived there. Their comments and reminiscences about the literary icon are new and revealing, sometimes provocative, sometimes inflammatory. In these pages are photographs and documents never before published, including unreleased letters to Hemingway from his doctors at the Mayo Clinic following his shock treatments there in 1960-61. In the words of one academic researcher, "I thought, and was told, that the Mayo file was closed and unavailable". This book proves otherwise. Here are eight chapters of remembrances plus a final chapter with four capsule entries, including the story of the discovery of Hemingway's Toronto Star typewriter. You'll find "The Best Friend" a font of fresh information that discloses the complexity of the man behind the legend.

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T.H. Galloway

"The King family, spread between Roswell, Georgia, and Virginia, faced the perils of the Civil War on different fronts. These correspondences ... cover Barrington S. King, a lieutenant colonel in Cobb's Legion, [leaving] his home in Georgia to fight in Virginia. On the other end of the correspondence are his father, mother, and young son in Roswell. Between Barrington and the family is his devoted wife, Bessie, who followed her husband to Virginia and traveled between the front and Roswell periodically, providing a woman's view"--Page 4 of cover.

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Morris Young

"Through a blend of personal narrative, cultural and literary analysis, and discussions about teaching, Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship shows how people of color use reading and writing to develop and articulate notions of citizenship. Morris Young begins with a narration of his own literacy experiences to illustrate the complicated relationship among literacy, race, and citizenship and to reveal the tensions that exist between competing beliefs and uses of literacy among those who are part of dominant American culture and those who are positioned as minorities."--BOOK JACKET.