Focus 580 Booklist
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Books and Authors on Focus 580: January 2009
Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, by Shane Hamilton (Princeton University Press)
interview date: Friday, January 30, 2009
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age, by Steve Knopper (Free Press)
interview date: Monday, January 26, 2009
"A Long Time Coming" The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama, by Evan Thomas and the Staff of Newsweek ()
interview date: Friday, January 23, 2009
Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral, by Philip Bal (HarperCollinsPublishers)
interview date: Thursday, January 22, 2009
An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, by Ruth Behar (Rutgers University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11, by Edward Alden (HarperCollinsPublishers)
interview date: Friday, January 16, 2009
We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam, by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway (HarperCollinsPublishers)
interview date: Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America, by Steven Johnson (Riverhead Books)
interview date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror, by Patrick Tyler (Farrar Straus Giroux)
interview date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, by Michael K. Honey (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Monday, January 12, 2009
The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, by Kate Clifford Larson (Basic Books)
interview date: Thursday, January 08, 2009
Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, by Edwin G. Burrows (Basic Books)
interview date: Wednesday, January 07, 2009
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showman, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar-Bats in Nineteenth Century New York, by Matthew Goodman (Basic Books)
interview date: Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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