This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Monitor Radio Early Edition, The People's Pharmacy and Soundings. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 4/1 - 4/7 1996 April 1, 1996: Bob Edwards spoke with the reporter: "Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a 20th Century Reporter" by Howard K. Smith, published by St. Martin's Press. April 1, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment" by Randy E. Barnett, published by George Mason University Press. "Brown, Racial Change and the Civil Rights Movement" by Michael Klarman, published by Virginia Law Review. "The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Racked By Culture Wars" by Todd Gitlin, published by Henry Holt. "Human Wishes" by Poet Laureate Robert Hass, published by Ecco Press. April 2, 1996: Bob Edwards talked with the historian: "Arguing About Slavery" by William Lee Miller, published by Knopf: The 19th century struggle to overturn the Gag Rule. April 3, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The New Ethnic Mobs: The Changing Face of Organized Crime in America" by William Kleinknecht, published by Free Press. "Organized Crime in America" by Jay Albanese, published by Anderson Publishing. April 3, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Life in the Rainbow" by Richard Horan, published by Steerforth Press: Life in a Chicago home for the mentally ill. April 4, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The Future of the Race" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West, published by Knopf. April 4, 1996: Linda Wertheimer read the traditional Passover poem "Song of Songs". April 4, 1996: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the author: "Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War" by Drew Gilpin Faust, published by University of North Carolina Press. April 6, 1996: Scott Simon spoke with the author: A book about the Modern Olympics by David Wallenchinsky, no publishing information available. April 6, 1996: The U.S. Poet Laureate read "Spring Rain" from his collection in honor of National Poetry Month: "Human Wishes" by Robert Hass, published by Ecco Press. April 6, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author: "The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism" by Colin Spencer, published by University Press of New England April 7, 1996: David Molpus spoke with the authors: "The New Rules of the Job Search Game" by Jackie Larson and Cheri Comstock, published by Bob Adams. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: April 1, 1996: "Farmer" by Jim Harrison, published by Flamingo. April 2, 1996: "Go and Tell Pharaoh: The Autobiography of the Reverend Al Sharpton" by Al Sharpton and Anthony Walton, published by Doubleday. "Survival in Sarajevo: How a Jewish Community Came to the Aid of its City" by Edward Serotta, published by Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation. April 3, 1996: "In Contempt" by Christopher Darden and Jess Walter, published by Regan Books. April 4, 1996: "The Search for Justice: A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case" by Robert Shapiro and Larkin Warren, published by Time Warner. April 5, 1996: "Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography" (Harper San Francisco), "Who Killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus" (Harper San Francisco), and "Who Is Jesus" (to be published in Fall 1996) by John Dominic Crossan. "The Gnostic Gospels" (Vintage) and "The Origins of Satan" (Random House) by Elaine Pagels. Book mentioned on Soundings, April 7, 1996: "Home Is Somewhere Else" by Lilian Furst, published by State University of New York Press: A memoir of the Holocaust. Book review listings are available on the internet via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews) and by gopher to sunsite.unc.edu under the NEWS! option. This text is Copyright (c) 1996 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Erika Grams (compiler). All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted by the copyright holder to distribute this file electronically or otherwise in full as long as attribution is made.