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: March 2009
The Break-Through: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, by Gwen Ifill (Doubleday)
interview date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Inventing America's "Worst" Family": Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael, by Nathaniel Deutsch (University of California Press)
interview date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Imperfect Harmony: How to Stay Married for the Sake of Your Children and Still Be Happy, by Joshua Coleman (St. Martin's Press)
interview date: Monday, March 23, 2009
The Spartacus War, by Barry Strauss (Simon & Schuster)
interview date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Promising Strategies for Improving K-12 Education in Illinois: Improving the Work Force, by Bejamin Superfine, Mark A. Smylie, Steven Tozer and David Mayrowetz in The Illinois Report 2009 (Institute of Government & Public Affairs)
interview date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall and the Battle for the Supreme Court, by Cliff Sloan and David McKean (Public Affairs)
interview date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, by Thomas Ricks (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Engaging the Muslim World, by Juan Cole (Palgrave Macmillan)
interview date: Friday, March 06, 2009
Evanescent Isles From My City-Village, by Xu Xi (Hong Kong University Press)
interview date: Friday, March 06, 2009
Afghanistan & Pakistan on the Brink: Framing U.S. Policy Options, by Frederick Barton and Karin von Hippel, et al. (CSIS February 2009)
interview date: Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror, by Jonathan Stevenson (Viking)
interview date: Monday, March 02, 2009
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