Books
of the Quarter, December 2003
On
December 15, 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:
Martin
Amis. 
Yellow
Dog. Miramax Books, 2003.
Peter
J. Bailey. 
The
Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen. The University Press
of Kentucky, 2003.
Richard
W. Bailey. 
Rogue
Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff.
University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Adam
Bellow. 
In
Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History. Doubleday, 2003.
Benson
Bobrick. 
Testament:
A Soldier's Story of the Civil War. Simon and Schuster,
2003.
Jimmy
Carter. 
The
Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War. Simon
and Schuster, 2003.
Bruce
Cutler. 
Closing
Argument: Defending (And Befriending) John Gotti, And Other Legal
Battles I Have Waged. Crown, 2003.
Carol
Diethe. 
Nietzsche's
Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.
University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Ted
Dracos. 
UnGodly:
The Passions, Torments, and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
Free Press, 2003.
Stephen
Glass. 
The
Fabulist. Simon and Schuster, 2003.
John
Limond Hart. 
The
CIA's Russians. Naval Institute Press, 2003.
Barbara
Holland. 
Gentlemen's
Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at
Dusk. Bloomsbury, 2003.
David
L. Kirp. 
Shakespeare,
Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education.
Harvard University Press, 2003.
Roger
Kimball. 
Lives
of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse.
Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
Arthur
Lennig. 
The
Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi. The
University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
Harry
Mulisch. 
Siegfried.
Viking, 2003.
Kiron
K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson, ed. 
Reagan:
A Life in Letters. Free Press, 2003.
Maynard
Solomon. 
Late
Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. University of
California Press, 2003.
Roy Strong. 
Feast:
A History of Grand Eating. Harcourt, 2003.
Gavin
Weightman. 
Signor
Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th
Century & the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution.
Da Capo Press, 2003.
Stanley
Weintraub. 
General
Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783.
Free Press, 2003.
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