Focus 580 Booklist
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
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Books and Authors on Focus 580: July 2009
Fresh: A Perishable History, by Susanne Freidberg (Harvard University Press)
interview date: Friday, July 31, 2009
China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa, by Serge Michael and Michel Beuret (Nation Books)
interview date: Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World, by Michelle Goldberg (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Thursday, July 30, 2009
Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson, by Peter C. Mancall (Bsic Books)
interview date: Friday, July 24, 2009
The Teeth May Smile But The Heart Does Not Forget: Murder And Memory In Uganda, by Andrew Rice (Metropolitan Books)
interview date: Thursday, July 23, 2009
Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press, by Eric Boehlert (Free Press)
interview date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care, by John Dittmer (Bloomsbury Press)
interview date: Monday, July 20, 2009
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learing to Kill in War and Society, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman (Back Bay Books of Little, Brown And Company)
interview date: Monday, July 20, 2009
You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall, by Colin Ellard (Doubleday)
interview date: Friday, July 17, 2009
Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World, by Jeb Brugmann (Bloomsbury Press)
interview date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
West of the West: Dreamers, Belilevers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State, by Mark Arax (Public Affairs)
interview date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans, by Stuart M. Blumin (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Monday, July 13, 2009
Sunnyside, by Glen David Gold (Alfred A. Knopf)
interview date: Friday, July 10, 2009
The Populist Vision, by Charles Postel (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Thursday, July 09, 2009
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China, by Jay Taylor (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, by Tamim Ansary (Public Affairs)
interview date: Wednesday, July 08, 2009
K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Modst Unlikely Tourist, by Peter Carlosn (Public Affairs)
interview date: Tuesday, July 07, 2009
"The Insiders: Taking the Hll", by Matt Bai (New York Times Magazine, June 7, 2009)
interview date: Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Into the Beautiful North: A Novel, by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown And Company)
interview date: Thursday, July 02, 2009
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