Books
of the Quarter, November 2006
On
November 1, Milt, Alan Gitelson, Penelope Mesic and Ellen Hunt
reviewed some of the most interesting books Extension 720 has
received during the past few months. Here is the complete list:
Charles
Allen. 
God's
Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad.
Da Capo Press, 2006.
Julian
Barnes. 
Arthur
and George. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Antony
Beevor and Luba Vinogradova. 
A
Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945.
Pantheon Books, 2006.
Jared
Brown. 
Moss
Hart: A Prince of the Theater. Back Stage Books, 2006.
Billy
Collins. 
The
Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems. Random House, 2005.
Jerry
Crimmins. 
Fort
Dearborn. Northwestern University Press, 2006.
Deborah
Davis. 
Party
of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black-and-White
Ball. Wiley, 2006.
Sarah
Dunant. 
In
the Company of the Courtesan. Random House, 2006.
Mark
H. Dunkelman. 
War's
Relentless Hand: Twelve Tales of Civil War Soldiers.
Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Paul
Griffiths. 
A
Concise History of Western Music. Cambridge University
Press, 2006.
Cormac
McCarthy. 
The
Road. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Jay
McInerney. 
The
Good Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Melanie
Phillips. 
Londonistan.
Encounter Books, 2006.
James
S. Robbins. 
Last
in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point.
Encounter Books, 2006.
Geoffrey
Robertson. 
Tyrannicide
Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold.
Pantheon Books, 2006.
Grant
F. Scott, ed. 
Selected
Letters of John Keats: Based on the Texts of Hyder Edward Rollins.
Harvard University Press, 2005.
Hampton
Sides. 
Blood
and Thunder: An Epic of the American West. Doubleday,
2006.
David
Thomson. 
Nicole
Kidman. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Steven
T. Usdin. 
Engineering
Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the
Soviet Silicon Valley. Yale University Press, 2005.
Louis
S. Warren. 
Buffalo
Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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