Books
of the Quarter, June 2005
On
June 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:
Brooke
Allen. 
Artistic
License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior.
Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
Jasper
Becker. 
Rogue
Regime: Kim Jong IL and the Looming Threat of North Korea.
Oxford University Press, 2005.
Peter
Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske. 
Howard
Hughes: The Untold Story. Da Capo Press, 2004.
Richard
Z. Chesnoff. 
The
Arrogance of the French: Why They Can't Stand Us... And Why the
Feeling is Mutual. Sentinel, 2005.
Alistair
Cooke. 
Letter
from America, 1946-2004. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Steven
Englund. 
Napoleon:
A Political Life. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Scott
Eyman. 
Lion
of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer.
Simon and Schuster, 2005.
Sharon
Ghamari-Tabrizi. 
The
Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear
War. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Leon
Goldensohn (ed. Robert Gellately). 
The
Nuremberg Interviews. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Mary
Gordon. 
Pearl.
Pantheon Books, 2005.
Henry
Hardy, ed. 
Isaiah
Berlin, Letters 1928-1946. Cambridge University Press,
2004.
Alice
Hoffman. 
The
Ice Queen. Little Brown, 2005.
Samuel
Johnson (ed. Jack Lynch). 
Samuel
Johnson's Dictionary. Walker Publishing Company, 2003.
Jerome
Loving. 
The
Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser. University of
California Press, 2005.
Christian
Meier. 
From
Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History. Harvard University
Press, 2005.
Patricia
O’Toole. 
When
Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House.
Simon and Schuster, 2005.
David
S. Reynolds. 
John
Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil
War, and Seeded the Civil Rights. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Michael
Schmidt. 
The
First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Robert
Service. 
Stalin:
A Biography. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Les
Standiford. 
Meet
You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter
Partnership That Transformed America. Crown, 2005.
John
Updike. 
Villages.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Milt's
recommended art books:
Chicago
Painting 1895 to 1945: The Bridges Collection. University
of Illinois Press, 2005.
Infinite
Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets beyond Our Sun.
University of California Press, 2005.
Jacques-Louis
David: Empire to Exile. Francine Art Institute Press,
2005.
I,Raphael.
Prestel Publishing,
2005.
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