Focus 580 Booklist
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Books and Authors on Focus 580
The Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation, by Amy Gajda (Harvard University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, by Alexandra Natapoff (New York University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America, by Richard Alba (Harvard University Press)
interview date: Monday, December 07, 2009
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar, by Scott Conroy & Shushannah Walshe (Public Affairs)
interview date: Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller (Doubleday)
interview date: Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, by James McManus (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
interview date: Monday, November 30, 2009
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities, by William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, Michael S. McPherson (Princeton University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment, by Stephen Kotkin with a contribution by Jan T. Gross (A Modern LIbrary Chronicles Book The Modern Library)
interview date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWS, MIAS, and the Unending Vietnam War, by Michael J. Allen (The University of North Carolina Press)
interview date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
U.S. Grant American Hero, American Myth, by Joan Waugh (The University of North Carolina Press)
interview date: Monday, November 16, 2009
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, by Stephen T. Asma (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?, by Michael J. Sandel (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
interview date: Monday, November 09, 2009
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know, by David I. Steinberg (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Monday, November 09, 2009
How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns, by Audrey Kurth Cronin (Princeton University Press)
interview date: Friday, November 06, 2009
Healing the Broken Mind: Transforming America's Failed mental Health System, by Timothy A. Kelly (New York University Press)
interview date: Thursday, November 05, 2009
The Darwin Conspiracy, by Thomas Roy Davies (Golden Square Books)
interview date: Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Methamphetamine: Its History, Pharmacology, and Treatment, by Ralph Weisheit, Ph.D. and Wiliam L. White, M.A. (Hazelden)
interview date: Monday, November 02, 2009
Beyond Alzheimer's: How to Avoid the Modern Epidemic of Dementia, by Scott D. Mendelson (M. Evans)
interview date: Friday, October 30, 2009
A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement, by Amy B. Dean & David B. Reynolds (Cornell University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Acts of Faith: The Story of An American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, by Eboo Patel (Beacon Press)
interview date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World, by David L. Bosco (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The Mom & Popo Stroe: How the Unsung Heroes of the American Economy Are Surviving and Thriving, by Robert Spector (Walker & Company)
interview date: Friday, October 23, 2009
The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan, by Scott O'Bryan (University of Hawai'i Press)
interview date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, by John Ortved (Faber and Faber, Inc.)
interview date: Monday, October 19, 2009
The The Virgin Warrior: The LIfe and Death of Joan of Arc Warrior: The LIfe and Death of Joan of Arc, by Larissa Juliet Taylor (Yale University Press)
interview date: Monday, October 12, 2009
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, by Dennis Baron (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Thursday, October 08, 2009
Windy City: A Novel of Politics, by Scott Simon (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
interview date: Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625, by Andrew Gurr (Cambridge University Press)
interview date: Monday, October 05, 2009
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportuity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Alfred A. Knopf)
interview date: Friday, October 02, 2009
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportuity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Alfred A. Knopf)
interview date: Friday, October 02, 2009
Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History, by Robert V. Wells (University of Illinois Press)
interview date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozxen Places, by Bill Streever (Little, Brown and Company)
interview date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Greek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive, by John Graham-Cummings (O'Reilly Publishing)
interview date: Monday, September 28, 2009
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old-Computer--and the Century-Long Search to Discover its Secrets, by Jo Marchant (Da Capo Press)
interview date: Friday, September 25, 2009
A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria, by Dainel Jordan Smith (Princeton University Press)
interview date: Friday, September 18, 2009
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obession, by Allison Hoover Bartlett (Riverhead Books)
interview date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Prince of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss, by Charles W. Eagles (The University of North Carolina Press)
interview date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Spring Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11, by Amy B. Zegart (Princeton University Press)
interview date: Friday, September 11, 2009
The Death of Conservatism, by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House)
interview date: Friday, September 11, 2009
The Selected Works of TS Spivet, by Reif Larsen (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe, by James B. Kaler (Princeton University Press)
interview date: Thursday, September 03, 2009
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science, by Carol Kaesuk Yoon (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Trotsky: Dwnfall of a Revolutionary, by Bertrand M. Patenaude (Harper)
interview date: Monday, August 31, 2009
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington, by Robert J. Norrell (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
interview date: Friday, August 28, 2009
Rethinking Juvenile Justice, by Elizabeth S. Scott and Laurence Steinberg (Harvard University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends, by May R. Berenbaum (Harvard Univiersity Press)
interview date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, by Christopher Cokinos (Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin)
interview date: Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Cul-De-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream, by John F. Waski (Bloomberg Press)
interview date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Audacity of Help: Obama's Economic Plan and the Remaking of America, by John F. Wasik (Bloomberg Press)
interview date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis And What To Do About It, by Robert Glennon (Island Press)
interview date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Years of Talking Dangerously, by Geoffrey Nunberg (Public Affairs)
interview date: Friday, August 14, 2009
Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq, by Charles Duelfer (Public Affairs)
interview date: Thursday, August 13, 2009
To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan, by Nicholas Schmidle (Henry Holt and Company)
interview date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Sop Worry from Stopping You, by Robert L. Leahy (Harmony Books)
interview date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, by David R. Montgomery (University of California Press)
interview date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island, by Vincent J. Cannato (Harper)
interview date: Monday, August 10, 2009
The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency, by Matthew M. Aid (Bloomsbury Press)
interview date: Friday, August 07, 2009
The Ugly Laws: Disabilty in Public, by Susan M. Schweik (New York University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, August 05, 2009
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan, by Seth G. Jones (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The Snake Head: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
interview date: Monday, August 03, 2009
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