Beverly Lowry's speculative "nonfiction": the white author of a new Madam Walker biography is lauded by the mainstream as if Walker's award-winning black chroniclers never existed. But Lowry also acknowledges mistakes in her Walker text to BIBR and vows to fix some of them in the paperback edition.(Book Review) Black Issues Book Review | September 1, 2003| | COPYRIGHT 2003 Cox, Matthews & Associates. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

When Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam C.J. Walker by Beverly Lowry was published in April (Knopf, $27.50, ISBN 0-679-44642-7), it was billed as "a comprehensive biography ... of America's first black woman millionaire." Well, at least the book is hefty--481 pages that include 38 pages of endnotes, bibliography and index. But readers expecting a new perspective on Sarah Breedlove, the daughter of slaves who rose from a shanty in Louisiana to become the legendary hair-care entrepreneur and philanthropist, are likely to be disappointed, even horrified.

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