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Former First Lady, BARBARA BUSH. She's written her memoir, "Barbara Bush" (Charles Scribner's Sons). A story of a "life of privilege" she writes. The book chronicles her early life, her marriage to George Bush during World War Two at the age of 19, and the political path that took them to the White House. BARBARA BUSH also writes about a depression she fell into in the mid-1970s in which she wept each night in the arms of her husband, and had thoughts about crashing her car into a tree or oncoming auto. The depression finally lifted on its own. The memoir is based on her diaries. One reviewer writes that BUSH "casts herself mostly as enthralled bystander at her husband's ascent from local Texas politics to the White House." (CONTINUES INTO SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

In 1990, an American Association of American Women survey found that the self-esteem of young girls plummets during adolescence. A year later, journalist PEGGY ORENSTEIN was commissioned to do a follow-up study to this survey, which resulted in her new book, "SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap" (Doubleday). ORENSTEIN talked to girls in two junior high schools, and examined some of the factors that influnced their feelings about themselves, including schooling, family, and class.

Psychiatrist PETER D. KRAMER. Kramer has written "Listening to Prozac" (Viking Books): an examination of the larger issues behind drugs that reshape temperament. Prozac is the most widely prescribed antidepressant today, with some four and a half million users since its introduction in 1987. Kramer raises serious questions about this "miracle mood enhancer": are we headed into an age of cosmetic pharmacology? If a pill is not used to alter an illness, but rather personality, what then is "the self"? And what are the social ramifications for women, in light of the Valium and Lithium use of the 1960's? (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 6

Legal journalist STEPHEN ADLER. He is legal affairs editor of "The Wall Street Journal." And he's written a new book about what's wrong with the jury system and how it can be fixed: "The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom," (Times Books/Random House). ADLER looks at the history of the jury system and how our attitudes about juries have changed over the years. ADLER blames poor jury selection, shrewd and savvy lawyers, and judges who don't explain the legal issues well enough. to jurors

Commentator JIM NORTHRUP looks at computers on Native American Reservations.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new shows "Madman of the People," with Dabney Coleman and "The Martin Short Show."

Lebanese-born author and journalist HANAN AL-SHAYKH. Her novel "The Story of Zahra" (Anchor Books) has just been published in the United States. Several Arab countries have banned the book since its original publication 14 years ago. The Story of Zahra tells of a contemporary Lebanese woman struggling with life in her family and her war-ravaged native city of Beirut. AL-SHAYKH'S novel "Women of Sand and Myrrh" was published in the United States last year

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new memoir by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Colored People."

Singer MARIANNE FAITHFULL got her start in the English music scene of 1964, when she dated Mick Jagger and had the hit song, "As Tears Go By." In the following years she had a drug addiction that almost killed her, before recovering in 1985 and releasing new albums. Her memoir, "Faithfull: An Autobiography" (Little Brown), tells her story of highs and lows with music and drugs. REV.: Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Eric Clapton's new release, "From the Cradle."

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