Focus Booklist
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Books and Authors on Focus
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, by Marc Levinson (Hill and Wang)
interview date: Monday, September 12, 2011
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wirght (Vintage Books)
interview date: Thursday, September 08, 2011
Inside National Health Reform, by John E. McDonough (University of California Press)
interview date: Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Divided We Stand: A Biography of the World Trade Center, by Eric Darton (Basic Books)
interview date: Thursday, September 01, 2011
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon, by William M. Adler (Bloomsbury)
interview date: Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
interview date: Monday, August 29, 2011
Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America, by David S. Reynolds (W. W. Norton and Company)
interview date: Friday, August 26, 2011
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, by David Eaglelman (Pantheon Books)
interview date: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself, by Pamela Constable (Random House)
interview date: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Sun's Heartbeat and Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet, by Bob Berman (Little, Brown And Company)
interview date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, by Douglas Waller (Free Press)
interview date: Friday, August 19, 2011
Millard Fillmore, by Paul Finkelman (Times Books)
interview date: Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human, by Pat Shpman (W. W. Norton adn Company)
interview date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
How We Age: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old, by Marc E. Agronin (Da Capo Press)
interview date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World, by Robin Wright (Simon & Schuster)
interview date: Monday, August 15, 2011
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War, by Amanda Foreman (Random House)
interview date: Friday, August 12, 2011
Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change, by L. Hunter Lovins (Hill and Wang)
interview date: Monday, August 08, 2011
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, by Simon Reynolds (Faber and Faber, Inc.)
interview date: Friday, August 05, 2011
One Nation Under AARP: The Fight Over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future, by Frederick R. Lynch (University of Californ)
interview date: Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time, by Mark Adams (Dutton)
interview date: Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, by Christian Parenti (Nation Books)
interview date: Tuesday, August 02, 2011
The Game From Where I Stand: A Ballplayer's Inside View, by Doug Glanville (Times Books Henry Holt And Company)
interview date: Friday, July 29, 2011
Cricket Radio Tuning In the Night-Singing Insects, by John Himmelman (The Belknap Press of Harvard University)
interview date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Night-Singing Insects of the Northeast, by John Himmelman (Stackpole Books)
interview date: Friday, July 22, 2011
They Fight Like Soldiers They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers, by Roméo Dallaire (Walker & Company)
interview date: Friday, July 22, 2011
The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo (Free Press)
interview date: Thursday, July 21, 2011
Heaven in the American Imagination, by Gary Scott Smith (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The Next American Economy: Blueprint for a Real Recovery, by William J. Holstein (Walker & Company)
interview date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted, by Justin Martin (Da Capo Press)
interview date: Monday, July 18, 2011
The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers, by Peter T omsen (Public Affairs)
interview date: Friday, July 15, 2011
The End of Country, by Seamus McGraw (Random House)
interview date: Thursday, July 14, 2011
The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer, by Colin Grant (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet All on $5 a Day or Less, by Linda Watson (DaCapo Life Long)
interview date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Illinois: A History in Pictures, by Gerald A. Danzer (University of Illinois Press)
interview date: Monday, July 11, 2011
The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You, by Eli Pariser (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Thursday, July 07, 2011
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways, by Earl Swift (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
interview date: Friday, July 01, 2011
The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence, by Michael J. Graetz (The MIT Press)
interview date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Caregiving: Eldercare Made Clear & Simple, by Cindy Laverty (CLW Publishing)
interview date: Monday, June 27, 2011
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture, by Joshua Kendall (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
interview date: Monday, June 27, 2011
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, by Mara Hvistendahl (Public Affairs)
interview date: Friday, June 24, 2011
The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America's Rush to War, by David Willman (Bantam Books)
interview date: Thursday, June 23, 2011
A Strange Stirring: The Femine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, by Stephanie Coontz (Basic Books)
interview date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Tyche Hendricks (University of California Press)
interview date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Not Fit for Our Society Immigration and Nativism in America, by Peter Schrag (University of California Press)
interview date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, by Kitty Burns Florey (Melville House Publishing)
interview date: Thursday, June 16, 2011
What Is Mental Illness?, by Richard J. McNally (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon, by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner (Henry Holt and Company)
interview date: Monday, June 13, 2011
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, by Charles Fishman (Free Press)
interview date: Friday, June 10, 2011
From the Jewish Heartland Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways, by Ellen F. Steinberg and Jack H. Prost (University of Illinois Press)
interview date: Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, by Matthew C. Ehrlich (University of Illinois Press)
interview date: Monday, June 06, 2011
The Wave, by Susan Casey (Anchor Books)
interview date: Friday, June 03, 2011
When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years, by Stanley Meisler (Beacon Press)
interview date: Thursday, June 02, 2011
Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy, by Seth Fletcher (Hill and Wang)
interview date: Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base , by Annie Jacobsen (Little, Brown and Company)
interview date: Thursday, May 26, 2011
Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: Integrating Ecology, Economics, Policy, and Management, by Reuben P. Keller, David M. Lodge, Mark A. Lewis, Jason F. Shogren (Editors) (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The Origins of Political Order From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
interview date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers, by Deborah Cadbury (Public Affairs)
interview date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tangled Webs How False Statements Are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff, by James B. Stewart (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Thursday, May 19, 2011
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, by Janny Scott (Riverhead Books)
interview date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable (Viking)
interview date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
