Books
of the Quarter, July 2004
On
July 22, 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:
Julian
Barnes. 
The
Lemon Table: Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Thomas
Blass, PhD. 
The
Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram.
Basic Books, 2004.
David
Brooks. 
On
Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future
Tense. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
William
F. Buckley, Jr. 
Miles
Gone By: A Literary Autobiography. Regnery, 2004.
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. 
Accounting
for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. University
of Chicago Press, 2004.
Sterling
F. Delano. 
Brook
Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Harvard University Press,
2004.
Aram
Goudsouzian. 
Sidney
Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. University of North Carolina
Press, 2004.
Graham
Russell Gao Hodges. 
Anna
May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend.
Palgrave, 2004.
Claudia
Koonz. 
The
Nazi Conscience. Harvard University Press, 2003.
Kate
Lehrer. 
Confessions
of a Bigamist. Shaye Areheart Books, 2004.
Leigh
Montville. 
Ted
Williams: The Biography of an American Hero. Doubleday,
2004.
Geoff
Nicholson. 
The
Hollywood Dodo. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
William
Safire. 
The
Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom
from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times, Vol.
2. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Steven
Strasser, ed. 
The
9/11 Investigations. Public Affairs Reports, 2004.
Barry
Strauss. 
The
Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece - and
Western Civilization. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Hank
Stuever. 
Off
Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere.
Henry Holt and Company, 2004.
Joanna
Trollope. 
Brother
and Sister. Bloomsbury, 2004.
Lawrence
Weschler. 
Vermeer
in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies.
Pantheon, 2004.
Andrew
Wheatcroft. 
Infidels:
A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam.
Random House, 2004.
Richard
Wolin. 
The
Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from
Nietzsche to Postmodernism. Princeton University Press,
2004.
Jonathan
Wright. 
God's
Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, Intrigue, and Power--A History
of the Jesuits. Doubleday, 2004.
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