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 10/14 - 10/20 1996 October 14, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The Underground Railroad in Montgomery County, Maryland" (1995) by Anthony Cohen, published by Montgomery County Historical Society. October 14, 1996: Robert Siegel spoke to the author: "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" by Peter Bernstein, published by John Wiley. October 14, 1996: Robert Siegel talked to the translator: "Genesis" translated by Stephen Mitchell, published by HarperCollins. October 14, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell, published by Villard. October 15, 1996: Bob Edwards talked to the sportswriter: "Men Will Be Boys: The Modern Woman Explains Football and Other Amusing Male Rituals" by Sally Jenkins, published by Doubleday. October 15, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Health Against Wealth: HMOs and the breakdown of medical trust" by George Anders, published by Houghton Mifflin. "Going Negative: How Attack Ads Shrink and Polarize the Electorate" (1995) by Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar, published by Free Press. October 15, 1996: Robert Siegel spoke with the translator: "Genesis" translated by Robert Alter, published by W.W. Norton. October 16, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The Dilbert Principle" and "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook" by Scott Adams, published by HarperBusiness. "Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World" by Anne Roiphe, published by Houghton Mifflin. "The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus" (1994) by Katie Roiphe, published by H. Hamilton. October 17, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Inside the Vatican" by Father Thomas Reese, published by Harvard University Press. "Out of Order" (1994, Vintage Books) and "We the People: A Concise Introduction to American Politics" (1995, Mc-Graw Hill) by Thomas Patterson. "New York Eats" (1992) and "New York Eats More" by Ed Levine, published by St. Martin's Press. October 19, 1996: Susan Stamberg talked with the editor of the diaries: "In My Own Word, Eva Peron" edited by Joseph Page, published by The New Press. October 20, 1996: Liane Hansen spoke to the "cyberpunk" author: "Holy Fire" by Bruce Sterling, published by Bantam Books: A novel describing a futuristic gerontocracy. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): October 14, 1996: "Don't Call It Night" (1995) by Amos Oz, published by Harcourt Brace: A novel by one of Israel's leading writers. "One River: Explorations and discoveries in the Amazon rain forest" by Wade Davis, published by Simon and Schuster. October 17, 1996: "Charles Ives -- A Life with Music" by Jan Swafford, published by W.W. Norton. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: October 14, 1996: "Waylon" by Waylon Jennings, published by Warner Books. October 16, 1996: "Approaching Eye Level" by Vivian Gornick, published by Beacon Press: An essay collection; she also wrote "Fierce Attachments". "Prohibition: Thirteen Years that Changed America" by Edward Behr, published by Arcade: He also wrote "The Last Emperor" and "Hirohito: Behind the Myth". October 17, 1996: "Rewrites" by Neil Simon, published by Simon and Schuster. "The Future of the Book" by Geoff Nunberg, published by University of California Press. Books mentioned on Soundings, October 20, 1996: "Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953" by G. Edward White, published by Princeton University Press. 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.