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Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom
by D.G. Fulford with Phyllis Greene
Review by Julia M. Klein

"Millions of women of the baby boom generation will, like Fulford, find themselves designated as emotional companions for their widowed mothers. For them—for all of us—Designated Daughter serves as a kind of Platonic ideal."
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The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
by Peter Benjaminson
Review by Evelyn Renold

"As a reporter for the Detroit Free Press in 1975, Benjaminson was assigned to write a piece on Ballard, who'd been fired by Motown kingmaker Berry Gordy and reduced to collecting welfare. Bejaminson taped eight hours of conversation with her, which form the basis of this account."
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Christopher Buckley, the author of Boomsday, answers "What book changed your life?"

If you mean that literally, I suppose I'd have to say, The Baltimore Catechism. That book loomed over my youth, and it is astonishing, even frightening, to reread it now. I also recall reading the last chapter of Moby-Dick, tears streaming down my cheeks, and being transported, but I wouldn't say that it changed my life.