Books
of the Quarter, April 2004
On
April 13, 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:
Hannah
Arendt and Martin Heidegger. 
Letters:
1925-1975. Harcourt Inc., 2004.
Jan
Bondeson. 
The
Great Pretenders: The True Stories behind Famous Historical Mysteries.
W.W. Norton and Company, 2004.
Jesse
Browner. 
The
Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality.
Bloomsbury, 2003.
Christopher
R. Browning. 
The
Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy,
September 1939-March 1942. University of Nebraska Press,
2004.
Rachel
Cohen. 
A
Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists,
1854-1967. Random House, 2004.
Evan
S. Connell. 
Francisco
Goya: A Life. Counterpoint, 2004.
Jeffrey
Frank. 
Bad
Publicity. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Colin
Harrison. 
The
Havana Room. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Elmore
Leonard. 
Mr.
Paradise. William Morrow, 2004.
Thomas
Mallon. 
Bandbox.
Pantheon Books, 2004.
H.L.
Mencken (ed. S.T. Joshi). 
Mencken's
America. Ohio University Press, 2004.
Daniel Meyerson. 
The
Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to
Decipher the Rosetta Stone. Ballantine Books, 2004.
Lucasta
Miller. 
The
Bronte Myth. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Maureen
O’Hara with John Nicoletti. 
'Tis
Herself. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Massimo
Polidoro. 
Secrets
of the Psychics: Investigating Paranormal Claims. Prometheus
Books, 2003.
Robert Service. 
Russia:
Experiment with a People. Harvard University Press, 2003.
Ron
Suskind. 
The
Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education
of Paul O'Neill. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
R. Larry Todd. 
Mendelssohn:
A Life in Music. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Jason Tomes. 
King
Zog of Albania: Europe's Self-Made Muslim Monarch. New
York University Press, 2003.
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