Focus 580 Booklist
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Books and Authors on Focus 580: February 2009
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line, by Martha A. Sandweiss (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Friday, February 27, 2009
The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life, by Ben Sherwood (Grand Central Publishing)
interview date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Bridge of Sand: A Novel, by Janet Burroway (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
interview date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation, by Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman (Zenith Press)
interview date: Friday, February 20, 2009
The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans, by Aaron Glantz (University of California Press)
interview date: Thursday, February 19, 2009
Living with Coronary Heart Disease: A Guide for Patients and Families, by Jerome E. Granato (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
interview date: Thursday, February 19, 2009
What Obama Means for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future, by Jabari Asim (William Morrow)
interview date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?, by Joel Berg (Seven Stories Press)
interview date: Friday, February 13, 2009
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics, by James Oakes (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War, by Conor Foley (Verso)
interview date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Three Generations No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Bush v. Bell, by Paul A. Lombardo (The Johns Hopkins Press)
interview date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Theory of Light & Matter, by Andrew Porter (University of Georgia Press)
interview date: Monday, February 09, 2009
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, by Dacher Keltner (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Wednesday, February 04, 2009
The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime, by Nicole Rafter (New York University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Algeria Anger of the Dispossessed, by Martin Evans & John Phillips (Yale University Press)
interview date: Monday, February 02, 2009
The Three Marriages: Reimaging Work, Self and Relationship, by David Whyte (Riverhead Books)
interview date: Monday, February 02, 2009
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