New in Paperback: ‘All Blood Runs Red’ and ‘Frankissstein’

New in Paperback: ‘All Blood Runs Red’ and ‘Frankissstein’

The New York Times-Books·2020-10-30 09:02

ALL BLOOD RUNS RED: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard — Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy, by Phil Keith with Tom Clavin. (Hanover Square, 352 pp., $17.99.) This “absorbing” biography of the first Black American fighter pilot “reads like a picaresque novel,” our reviewer, Thomas E. Ricks, noted. Bullard fled the Jim Crow South as a boy by stowing away on a freighter to Europe, where he fought for the French Foreign Legion and ran a Paris nightclub, among other exploits.

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