Books
of the Quarter, February 2006
On
February 27, 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:
John
Banville. 
The
Sea. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Frederick
Busch. 
North.
W.W. Norton and Company, 2005.
Susan
Butler, ed. 
My
Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Joseph V. Stalin. Yale University Press, 2006.
Edward
Champlin. 
Nero.
Harvard University Press, 2005.
Rob
Davidson. 
The
Master and the Dean: The Literary Criticism of Henry James and
William Dean Howells. University of Missouri Press, 2005.
James
Geary. 
The
World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism. Bloomsbury,
2005.
Patrick
McGilligan, ed. 
Backstory
4: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s.
University of California Press, 2006.
Arthur
I. Miller. 
Empire
of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest
for Black Holes. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Kenneth
Morgan. 
Fritz
Reiner: Maestro and Martinet. University of Illinois
Press, 2005.
Joyce
Carol Oates. 
The
Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense.
Harcourt, 2006.
David
Reynolds. 
In
Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second
World War. Random House, 2005.
Hazel
Rowley. 
Tete-a-Tete:
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Harper Collins,
2005.
Julian
Rushton. 
Mozart:
His Life and Work. Oxford University Press,
2006.
Rodney
Stark. 
The
Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism,
and Western Success. Random House, 2005.
Kerry
A. Trask. 
Black
Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America. Henry Holt,
2006.
Mark
Cotta Vaz. 
Living
Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King
Kong. Villard, 2005.
Elie
Wiesel. 
The
Time of the Uprooted. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Larry
Witham. 
The
Measure of God: Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science
& Religion. Harper San Francisco, 2005.
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