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styles.” Yet by the mid-1980s it had implemented policies to
accommodate HIV-positive employees in the workplace and was
considered a “role model” for LGBTQ-friendly firms. The
movement successfully pressed for benefits for domestic partners
in the 1990s (an opening wedge toward legal recognition of same
sex marriage). Today, tech companies such as Angie’s List, Apple,
and Salesforce, but also traditional megacorporations such as
General Mills and Merrill Lynch, have advocated for LGBTQ
policies in the public (as opposed to just the private, corporate)
sphere. This progression, Ball astutely notes, has led to an
interesting paradox, wherein LGBTQ progressives find themselves
embracing corporate America on these issues but confronting
them on others, such as antiunion, antiregulatory, and antitax
policies. He delivers both an insightful history and an excellent
road map for any group seeking progressive social change. (Nov.)The Zookeepers’ War:
An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
J.W. Mohnhaupt, trans. from the German by Shelley Frisch. Simon &
Schuster, $26 (250p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8849-7
Cold War Berlin bursts to life in this riveting German best-
seller chronicling the fierce rivalry between zoos on either side
of the Iron Curtain by journalist Mohnhaupt. The feud raged
between “avid animal collector” and veterinarian Heinz-Georg
Klos, director of the West Berlin zoo, and his older counterpart
in East Berlin’s Tierpark, the “passionate zoologist” Heinrich
Dathe, who had dreamed of running a zoo since he was a child.
The socialist government “did not want East Berliners traveling
to the British sector to visit the zoo there... throwing their
money at capitalism,” so it founded its own. Soon, the two zoos
and their directors, “each an emblem of his city’s politics,” were
engaged in intense competition. “For both men,” Mohnhaupt
writes, “being a zoo director was more than a nine-to-five job; it
was a calling.” Along with the human characters, a memorable
array of four-legged figures includes Knautschke the hippo, so
beloved that Berliners fed him cabbage when they had little to
spare, and Chi Chi the panda, whose likeness became the logo
for the World Wildlife Fund. Mohnhaupt is a keen guide to the
difficulties of a divided Berlin and to the enchantment of a career
devoted to wild animals. (Nov.)1,000 Places to See Before You Die:
The World as You’ve Never Seen It Before
Patricia Schultz. Artisan, $50 (544p) ISBN 978-1-57965-788-8
The gorgeous third edition of veteran travel journalist Schultz’s
destination compendium takes a much more visual approach
than previous renditions. Whether it is
cherry blossom viewing in Yoshiro,
Japan; penguins strolling on Boulders
Beach in South Africa; the Bellagio’s
dancing fountains on the Las Vegas
Strip; or the Arenal Volcano in Costa
Rica, each of the places is illustrated
with a breathtaking photograph (some,
like the Sydney Opera House and
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper,
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