Books
of the Quarter, March 2005
On
March 14, 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:
Thomas
Asbridge. 
The
First Crusade: A New History. Oxford University Press,
2004.
Louis
Auchincloss. 
East
Side Story. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Lauren
Bacall. 
By
Myself and Then Some. Harper Collins, 2005.
Buzz
Bissinger. 
Three
Nights in August. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Christopher
Buckley. 
Florence
of Arabia. Random House, 2004.
Charlotte
Chandler. 
It's
Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock, A Personal Biography.
Simon and Schuster, 2005.
David
M. Crowe. 
Oskar
Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities
and the True Story Behind the List. Westview Press, 2004.
George
Friedman. 
America's
Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle between America
and Its Enemies. Doubleday, 2004.
Ian
Kelly. 
Cooking
for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef.
Walker and Company, 2004.
Gilles
Kepel. 
The
War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
Larry
McMurtry. 
Loop
Group. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Alice
Munro. 
Runaway:
Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
V.S.
Naipaul. 
Magic
Seeds. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Gene
D. Phillips. 
Godfather:
The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola. University of Kentucky
Press, 2004.
Donald
Rayfield. 
Stalin
and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him.
Random House, 2004.
Gretchen
E. Schafft. 
From
Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich.
University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Richard
Stern. 
Almonds
to Zhoof: Collected Stories. Northwestern University
Press, 2005.
Tom
Wolfe. 
I
Am Charlotte Simmons. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
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