Focus 580 Booklist
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
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Books and Authors on Focus 580: August 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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