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 8/19 - 8/25 1996 August 19, 1996: Alex Chadwick spoke with the author: "Dead Season" by Allen Berlow, published by Pantheon Books: The story of politically motivated murders in the Philippines. August 20, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults" by Edward Myers, published by Penguin Books. "Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back" by Jane Holtz Kay, published by Crown. August 21, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "War Against the Poor" by Herbert Gans, published by Basic Books. August 22, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The Gastronomical Me" by M.F.K. Fisher, published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. "The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion" by Philip Hefner, published by Fortress Press. "God: The World's Future" (Fortress Press) and "UFO's -- God's Chariots? Flying Saucers in Politics, Science and Religion" (John Knox Press) by Ted Peters. "Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science" by Jim Gilbert, publisher unknown. August 22, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Marx, Deceased" by Carl Djerassi, published by The University of Georgia Press. August 24, 1996: Scott Simon spoke with the author: "Out of Order: How the Decline of the Political Parties and the Growing Power of the News Media Undermine the American Way of Electing Presidents" by Thomas E. Patterson, published by Knopf. August 24, 1996: Scott Simon talked with the historian: "Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition" by Estelle Freedman, published by The University of Chicago Press. August 25, 1996: Liane Hansen spoke with the teacher: "Ten Second Rainshowers: Poems by Young People" by Sandford Lyne, published by Simon and Schuster. August 25, 1996: Liane Hansen talked to the writer: "But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz" by Geoff Dyer, published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. August 25, 1996: Susan Stamberg spoke with the historian: "Thomas Jefferson: A Life" by William Sterne Randall, published by Henry Holt and Company. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: August 19, 1996: "Cruising Paradise" by Sam Shepard, published by Knopf. August 20, 1996: REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "My Summer with George" by Marilyn French, published by Knopf. August 21, 1996: "No Free Ride: From the Mean Streets to the Mainstream" by Kweisi Mfume and Ron Stodghill II, published by Ballantine Books. August 22, 1996: "The Party's Not Over: A New Vision for the Democrats" by Jeff Faux, published by Basic Books. Book review listings are available on the internet via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews). 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.