Books
of the Quarter, October 2005
On
October 27, Milt, Alan Gitelson, Penelope Mesic and Susan Harris
reviewed some of the most interesting books Extension 720 has
received during the past few months. Here is the complete list:
John
L. Allen, Jr. 
The
Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope Was Elected
and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church. Doubleday,
2005.
Rodney
Bolt. 
History
Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe.
Bloomsbury, 2005.
E.L.
Doctorow. 
The
March. Random House, 2005.
Umberto
Eco. 
The
Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Harcourt, 2004.
Stanley
M. Hordes. 
To
the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.
Columbia University Press, 2005.
Alistair
Horne. 
La
Belle France: A Short History. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Hilke
Kuhlmann. 
Living
Walden Two: B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental
Communities. University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Cormac
McCarthy. 
No
Country for Old Men. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
David.
E. Murphy. 
What
Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa. Yale University
Press, 2005.
William
Murray. 
Fortissimo:
Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers.
Crown, 2005.
Joe
Nickell. 
Secrets
of the Sideshows. The University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
Hugh
Nissenson. 
The
Days of Awe. Sourcebooks Landmark, 2005.
Orhan
Pamuk. 
Istanbul:
Memories and the City. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Douglas
M. Parker. 
Ogden
Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse.
Ivan R. Dee, 2005.
Roland
Perry. 
Last
of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight, the Only
American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring. DaCapo Press,
2005.
David
Plotz. 
The
Genius Factory: Unraveling the Mystery of the Nobel Prize Sperm
Bank. Random House, 2005.
Chris
Roberts. 
Heavy
Words Lightly Thrown: The Seamy and Quirky Stories Behind Favorite
Nursery Rhymes. Gotham Books, 2005.
Jonathan
Schneer. 
The
Thames: A Biography. Yale University Press, 2005.
Vikas
Swarup. 
Q
and A. Scribner, 2005.
Edward
B. Westermann. 
Hitler's
Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East.
University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Milt's
recommended art books:
Holbein
and England. Paul
Mellon Center/Yale University Press, 2005.
Infinite
Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets beyond Our Sun.
University of California Press, 2005.
The
Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Yale University Press,
2005.
Trick
of the Eye: Trompe L'oeil Masterpieces. Prestel Publishing,
2004.
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