She was the youngest girl to top the bill at the London Palladium, the teenybopper who had The Beatles among her supporting acts. Her number one hits "Don't Treat Me Like a Child" and "Walking Back to Happiness" were quintessential 1960s records. But at 19 she'd been and gone. In 1979 her career began to take off again when she landed the part of Nancy in the West End production of "Oliver". She tried singing jazz, teamed up with veteran trumpeter and bandleader Humphrey Littleton and has not been without work since. In 1987, through the influence of her musical director Bob Cranham, and the help of Stan Telchin's book "Betrayed", she accepted the Christian faith. Wanting to remain faithful to her Jewish lineage, however, she became a Messianic Jewess - one who accepts Jesus as the Messiah. Helen now combines her secular work with gospel recording and performing. Wendy Green is the author of "Getting Things Done: A Biography of General Eva Burrows", "The Ebony Cross" (with Io Smith), "Somebody I Love Has Died" and "Raped" (with Jill Saward).

Walking Back to Happiness: An Autobiography

RICHARD, CLIFF

Shapiro, Helen

GREEN, Wendy

Biographies & Memoirs

HarperCollins Publishers,Inc.

A story of early success and then a descent into the doldrums that will speak to everyone. Helen Shapiro went from top of the bill at the London Palladium as a teenybopper to relative obscurity at 19. She revived her career in 1979 and became a Messianic Jew in 1987.

Walking Back to Happiness: My Story

Harpercollins/STL

In the 1950s, Brazil prohibited car imports and forced transnational auto companies either to abandon the market or manufacture vehicles within the country. Although currently contending approaches to economic development would suggest that this type of industrialization policy would fail in the political-economic context of postwar Brazil, the plan was successful according to a variety of criteria. The Brazilian auto industry would become the largest in the periphery. The book explains the economic and political motivations behind the plan, and why Brazil relied on foreign firms to do the job. It documents the bargaining process between the Brazilian government and transnational firms, estimates the cost incurred by the government as a result of the plan, and provides new archival evidence that shows that firms would not have invested without government pressure. It argues that the current, polarized debate on the role of the state in economic development must become more nuanced, as the Brazilian auto case suggests that the effectiveness of state policy can vary greatly across sectors and over time.

Engines of Growth: The State and Transnational Auto Companies in Brazil

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

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