Books
of the Quarter, May 2003
On
May 30, Milt, Dan Tucker, Penelope Mesic and Bruce Gans reviewed
some of the most interesting books Extension 720 has received
during the past few months. Here is the complete list:
Sholem
Aleichem. 
Letters
of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl, Peysi the Cantor's
Son. Yale University Press.
Stephen
E. Ambrose. 
To
America: Personal Reflections of an Historian.
Simon and Schuster.
Margaret
Atwood. 
Oryx
and Crake. Nan A. Talese Press.
Italo
Calvino. 
Hermit
in Paris: Autobiographical Writings. Pantheon
Books.
Eliot
A. Cohen. 
Supreme
Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime.
Simon and Schuster.
Umberto
Eco. 
Baudolino.
Harcourt.
Natasha
Fraser-Cavassoni. 
Sam
Spiegel: The Incredible Life and Times of Hollywood's Most Iconoclastic
Producer. Simon and Schuster.
Sheila
Hodges. 
Lorenzo
Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart's Librettist.
University of Wisconsin Press.
Philip
Jenkins. 
Next
Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.
Oxford University Press.
Eric
S. Juhnke. 
Quacks
and Crusaders: The Fabulous Careers of John Brinkley, Norman Baker,
and Harry Hoxsey. University Press of Kansas.
Emily
W. Leider. 
Dark
Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Bobbie
Ann Mason. 
Elvis
Presley. Penguin/Putnam Inc.
Bruce
Allen Murphy. 
Wild
Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas. Random
House.
Alison
Owings. 
Hey,Waitress!
the USA from the Other Side of the Tray. University of
California Press.
David
Satter. 
Darkness
at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. Yale
University Press.
David
Simon. 
Tony
Soprano's America. Westview Press.
Jane
Smiley. 
Good
Faith. Alfred A. Knopf.
Jeffrey
Steingarten. 
It
Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything.
Alfred A. Knopf.
Noah
Andre Trudeau. 
Gettysburg:
A Testing of Courage. Harper Collins Publishers.
Jim
Weeks. 
Gettysburg:
Memory, Market, and an American Shrine. Princeton
University Press.
Carolin
C. Young. 
Apples
of Gold in Settings of Silver: Stories of Dinner as a Work of
Art. Simon and Schuster
