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BRENDSEL: WELL-CAPITALIZED FREDDIE MAC GEARS UP FOR STIFFER STANDARDS The two secondary mortgage market agencies were breathing easier in late October. The reason: The Treasury Department's proposal that they and [...]

Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal. By Yuval Taylor. Mar. 2019.304p. illus. Norton, $27.95 (9780393243918). 813.52. Fascinating in their own rights as major literary figures, Langston Hughes [...]

* The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. By Toni Morrison. Feb. 2019. 384p. Knopf, $28.95 (9780525521037). 818.For more than four decades, Morrison has written luminous fiction exploring [...]

* The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago.By Flint Taylor.Feb. 2019.350p. Haymarket, $27 (9781608468959). 363.2.When the People's Law Office (PLO), which Taylor founded, took up the legal challenge [...]

* Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More like America.By Dorothy Butler Gilliam.Jan. 2019.360p. illus. Center Street, $27 (97815460834431.070.92.Southern-born daughter of a preacher Gilliam arrived at [...]

Training School for Alegro Girls. By Camille Acker. Oct. 2018. 232p. Feminist, paper, $17.95 (9781936932375). Acker brings keen observation of black culture, the lives of black women, and the city [...]

Equality for Women = Prosperity for All: The Disastrous Global Crisis of Gender Inequality. By Augusto Lopez-Claros and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Nov. 2018.320p. St. Martin's, $28.99 (9781250051189). 323.3. The unequal treatment [...]

* Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo.' By Zora Neale Hurston. Ed. by Deborah G. Plant. May 2018. 208p. Amistad, $24.99 (9780062748201).306.3620973. In 1931, years before the fiction [...]

Night Hawks. By Charles Johnson. May 2018. 192p. Scribner, $24 (9781501184383). The stories in National Book Award-winner Johnsons fourth short story collection range from sf to realism. In 'The Weave,' [...]

* Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago. By Roger Biles. May 2018. 408p. illus. Univ. of Illinois, $34.95 (9780252041853).977.3. The son of an attorney active in [...]

* Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. By Wil Haygood. Oct. 2015.416p. Knopf, $32.50 (9780307957191). 347.73. In the midst of the civil rights movement and […]

No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering. By Clara Bensen. Jan. 2016.272p. Running Press, $26 (9780762457243); e-book (97807624572501. 910.4. Months after a tentative recovery from a mental breakdown, [...]

No Hope: Why I Left the GOP (and You Should, Too). By Jimmy LaSalvia. Oct. 2015.256p. Skyhorse, $24.99 (9781510702387); ebook (9781510702394). 320. After more than a decade working in the [...]

The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It. By Leonard Cassuto. Sept. 2015.308p. illus. Harvard, $29.95 (97806747289811.378.1. With rising costs, longer time frames to get [...]

* Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. By Linda Hirshman. Sept. 2015.416p. illus. Harper, $28.99 (9780062238467). [...]

The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities. By Stephen Breyer. Sept. 2015. 400p. Knopf, $27.95 (9781101946190); e-book (9781101946206). 347.73. In the Internet Age, Justice Breyer […]

One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out about What's Gotten Better ... and What Hasn't. Ed. by Kevin Jennings. Aug. 2015.192p. Beacon, paper, $17 (9780807055861); [...]

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety. By Jimmy Carter. July 2015. 256p. Illus. Simon & Schuster, $28 (9781501115639). 973.926. Having written several books already--on his religious beliefs, his years in [...]

2 Billion under 20: How Millennial Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World. Ed. by Stacey Ferreira and Jared Kleinert. July 2015. 320p. St. Martin's, $25.99 (9781250067616); e-book [...]

The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma. By Delphine Schrank. July 2015.352p. Nation, $26.99 (9781568584980). 959.105. Journalist Schrank spent four years covering Burma as it [...]

The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life. By Alyssa Katz. July 2015. 298p. Spiegel & Grau, $28 (9780812993288). 381.06. While the image [...]

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. By Ari Berman. Aug. 2015. 320p. illus. Farrar, $27 (9780374158279). 340.3. Even as the nation was recognizing the [...]

By Joel K. Bourne. June 2015. 400p. illus. Norton, $27.95 (9780393079531). 338.19. Born and raised in farm country in North Carolina, Bourne gradually saw the stark realities of agribusiness and [...]

The World on a Plate: 40 Cuisines, 100 Recipes, and the Stories behind Them. By Mina Holland. May 2015. 208p. Penguin, paper, $20 (9780143127659). 641.59. Food has the evocative power [...]

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection. By Jacob Silverman. Mar. 2015. 416p. Harper, $26.99 (9780062282460). 303.48. Most of us would be up in arms if [...]

Madam Ambassador: Three Years in Budapest. By Eleni Kounalakis. May 2015. 320p. New Press, $26.95 (9781620971116); e-book (97816209711231.327.209. Kounalakis and her father, Greek American real-estate developers in Sacramento, were major [...]

* Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage. By Barney Frank. Mar. 2015. 400p. illus. Farrar, $28 (9780374280307). 328.73. Since adolescence, Frank grew up with […]

Political experts are predicting that health care concerns will be a major issue in this year's Presidential campaign. It's already a major issue--and has been for some time--for business managers. [...]

The Friend. By Sigrid Nunez. Feb. 2018.224p. Riverhead, $25 (9780735219441). The narrator's friend, a famous writer at the height of a long and successful career, killed himself and left no [...]

Investor pressure demands flexibility Turbulence in the financial services sector and the changes set in motion by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act have increased demand on savings [...]

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. By Catherine Kerrison. Jan. 2018. 432p. Ballantine, $28 (9781101886243). 973.46. When Thomas Jefferson's wife died, he was left to [...]

* Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News. By Kevin Young. Nov. 2017.576p. illus. Graywolf, $30 (9781555977917). 364. As we adjust to life with a [...]

* We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. By Ta-Nehisi Coates. Oct. 2017. 400p. Random, $28 (9780399590566). 973.932. However stunned the nation was to see a Donald Trump [...]

Defining Moments in Black History: Reading between the Lies. By Dick Gregory. Sept. 2017. 256p. Amistad, $24.99 (9780062448699). 973.0496073. From his perspective of more than 80 years of life, much [...]

The Origin of Others. By Toni Morrison. Sept. 2017.133p. Harvard, $22.95 (9780674976450). 813.54. Nobel laureate Morrison, long known for her penetrating exploration of race in the U.S., continues that examination [...]

* The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American Culinary History in the Old South. By Michael W. Twitty. Aug. 2017.464p. Amistad, $28.99 (9780062379290). 641.59. Referring to the Old South as [...]

Sing, Unburied, Sing. By Jesmyn Ward. Sept. 2017.304p. Scribner, $26 (9781501126062). Jojo, 13, and his 3-year-old sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, while their mother, Leonie, struggles [...]

So Much Blue. By Percival Everett. June 2017. 256p. Graywolf, paper, $16 (9781555977825). Kevin Pace, an artist living with his wife and two children in New England, is working obsessively [...]

* Women in the World of Frederick Douglass. By Leigh Fought. May 2017.400p. Oxford, $29.95 (9780199782376). 973.8092. Despite his autobiographies and extensive other writings, Douglass revealed little of his personal [...]

BANK REGULATORS CONSIDER RECOURSE CAPITAL STANDARDS Commercial bankers are now in the position savings institution managers were a year ago: scrambling to cope with requirements to hold reserves against mortgages [...]