Books
of the Quarter, September 2003
On
September 3, Milt, Alan Gitelson, Penelope Mesic and Dan Tucker
reviewed some of the most interesting books Extension 720 has
received during the past few months. Here is the complete list:
Stephen
V. Ash. 
A
Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865. Palgrave Macmillan,
2002.
Emily Bingham. 
Mordecai:
An Early American Family. Hill and Wang, 2003.
Irene
Quenzeler Brown and Richard D. Brown. 
The
Hanging of Ephrain Wheeler. Harvard University Press,
2003.
Carlo
Feltrinelli. 
Feltrinelli:
A Story of Riches, Revolution, and Violent Death. Harcourt,
Inc., 2002.
Sue
Fishkoff. 
The
Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch. Schocken
Books, 2003.
Martin Gardner. 
Are
Universes Thicker than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic
Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and
Pseudoscience Topics. W.W. Norton and Company, 2003.
Sebastian
Haffner. 
Defying
Hitler: A Memoir. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Richard
Darwin Keynes. 
Fossils,
Finches, and Fuegians: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on
the Beagle. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Alec
Klein. 
Stealing
Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner.
Simon and Schuster, 2003.
Guido
Knopp. 
Hitler's
Women. Routledge, 2003.
Carnes
Lord. 
The
Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now. Yale University
Press, 2003.
John
C. Lungren, M.D. and John C. Lungren, Jr. 
Healing
Richard Nixon: A Doctor's Memoir. The University Press
of Kentucky, 2003.
Alanna
Nash. 
The
Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis
Presley. Simon and Schuster, 2003.
David
Nice. 
Prokofiev:
From Russia to the West, 1891-1935. Yale University Press,
2003.
Elliott
Oring. 
Engaging
Humor. University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Mark
Rotella. 
Stolen
Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria. North Point Press,
2003.
Dominic
Shellard. 
Kenneth
Tynan: Writing for Posterity. Yale University Press,
2003.
Mike
Stanton. 
The
Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's
Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds. Random
House, 2003.
Richard
Steigman-Gall. 
The
Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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