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FANFAIR

In 1988 investigative journalist and V.F. special correspondent Bryan Burrough and John Helyar let loose Barbarians at the Gate (CollinsBusiness), an expose of the bloodiest takeover in Wall Street history. Now the book that unleashed a horde of true-business thrillers returns in a new edition, taking stock of the past and present dramas of key players.

In Miles on Miles (Lawrence Hill), Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr score supercool interviews with the visionary jazzman, dubbed “the Prince of Darkness.” The Prince of purple reigns glorious in his 21 Nights (Atria). In Somebody (Knopf), Stefan Kanfer contends with the hulking legend of Brando. The immortal George Plimpton roars to life in Nelson W. Aldrich Jr/s oral biography, George, Being George (Random House). Eminem: The Way I Am (Dutton) is a captivating journal of the artist’s most intimate musings, drawings, and photos.

Long mythologized, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac's early collaborative crime novel, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Grove), is finally revealed. Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler sanctify gaygolden-age illustrator J. C. Leyendecker (Abrams). V.F’s Bruce McCall moves into kid territory with Marveltown (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Daniel Johnson'sWhite King and Red Queen (Houghton Mifflin)

captures the era when Cold War battles were waged on the chessboard. Zachary Shore explains why smart people Blunder (Bloomsbury) into bad decisions. Jon Meacham stalks Andrew Jackson in American Lion (Random House). Tim Street-Porter basks in L.A. Modem (Rizzoli). Todd Merrill and Julie V. lovine revel in the revival of Modem Americana (Rizzoli). Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast trace the history of Illustration (Abrams). V.F contributing photographer Mark Seliger snaps away in The Music Book (teNeues). Calvin Tomkins paints the Lives of the Artists (Henry Holt). Samuel and Elizabeth White tour the Gilded Age masterworks of Sam’s great-grandfather Stanford White, Architect (Rizzoli). Andrew Chaikin confesses A Passion for Mars (Abrams). Edward Quinn glamorizes Stars and Cars of the ’50s (teNeues). New York Times Magazine food writer Amanda Hesser whips up a delicious banquet of its four-star essays in Eat, Memory (Norton). Alexandra Kerry issues her Notes from the Trail (Modern Times). As we know, Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.