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Books and Music on The Afternoon Magazine: June 2009
A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil, by Sharon Astyk & Aaron Newton (New Society Publishers)
Interview date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Green Careers: Choosing Work for a Sustainable Future, by Jim Cassio & Alice Rush (New Society Publishers)
Interview date: Monday, June 29, 2009
To Tell The Truth: The Life of Ida B. Wells, by Mia Bay (Hill and Wang)
Interview date: Friday, June 26, 2009
Just Me, Sammie, by Marybelle Vancil (Outskirts Press, Inc.)
Interview date: Friday, June 26, 2009
Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevih Turned Political Corruption into a National Sideshow, by Elizabeth Brackett (Ivan R. Dee)
Interview date: Thursday, June 25, 2009
More Than a Farmer's Wife: Voices of American Farm Women 1910-1960, by Amy Mattson Lauters (University of Missouri Press)
Interview date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Chasing Medical Miracles: The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials, by Alex O'Meara (Walker & Company)
Interview date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Images of America: Champaign, by raymond Bial (Arcadia Publishing)
Interview date: Friday, June 19, 2009
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking (University of Illinois Press)
Interview date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family, by Jeremy Adam Smith (Beacon Press)
Interview date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Too Politically Sensitive, by Michale Callahan with Jake Aurelian (Land Of Lincoln Press)
Interview date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality, by Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Riverhead Books)
Interview date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, by Matt Mason (Free Press)
Interview date: Friday, June 12, 2009
Hiking Illinois, by Susan L. Post (Human Kinetics)
Interview date: Thursday, June 11, 2009
For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932, by Lisa G. Materson (University of North Carolina Press)
Interview date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data, by Joel Best (University of California Press)
Interview date: Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals About His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World, by David Ewing Duncan (Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
Interview date: Monday, June 08, 2009
The Walking People: A Novel, by Mary Beth Keane (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Interview date: Wednesday, June 03, 2009
The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens, by Malina Saval (Basic Books)
Interview date: Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes, by Adam Ried (W. W. Norton & Company)
Interview date: Monday, June 01, 2009
