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 10/21 - 10/27 1996 October 21, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "What Governments Can Do: Seventh Annual Report on the State of World Hunger" edited by Marc J. Cohen (of Bread for the World Institute). October 21, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "All the King's Men", 50th anniversary edition, by Robert Penn Warren, published by Harcourt Brace. October 22, 1996: John Burnett profiled the reverend as part of a series on religion and politics: "Enough Is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement" by Rick Scarborough, publisher unknown. Octoer 22, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor" (Knopf) and "The Declining Significance of Race" (University of Chicago Press, 1978) by William Julius Wilson. October 22, 1996: Robert Siegel spoke to the novelist: "Couplings" by Peter Schneider, published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux: Life in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall. October 23, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The Law of Love" by Laura Esquivel, published by Crown Books. October 24, 1996: Talk fo the Nation: "People's Choice" (1995) by Jeff Greenfield, published by Putnam. "Mother Teresa" (1992) by Navin Chawla, published by Element Books. October 24, 1996: Commentator Amy Dickinson reflected on the book: "The Rules" by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, published by Warner. October 25, 1996: Alex Chadwick spoke with the poet: "Loosestrife" by Stephen Dunn, published by Norton. October 25, 1996: Music reviewer Charles de Ledesma looked at the book and CD: "Ocean of Sound" by David Toop, published by Serpent's Tail: A history of the expansion of music in the twentieth century around the globe (CD available from Virgin Records). October 26, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the co-curator of "Red, Hot, and Blue", a Smithsonian exhibit tracing the history of the musical. An accompanying CD and book by Amy Henderson are available from the Smithsonian. October 26, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling talked to the author: "Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America" by Edward Behr, published by Arcade. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): October 24, 1996: An interview with the co-curator of the exhibit "Red Hot and Blue" at the Smithsonian, a history of the American musical. A CD and book by Amy Henderson are available from the Smithsonian. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: October 21, 1996: "Leading with My Chin" by Jay Leno, published by HarperCollins. October 22, 1996: "Blues All Around Me" by B.B. King, published by Avon Books. October 23, 1996: "The Genesis of Ethics: How the Tormented Family of Genesis Leads Us to Moral Development" by Burton Visotzky, published by Crown Publishers. October 24, 1996: "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt, published by Scribner. October 25, 1996: "Sun Under Wood" and "The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson & Issa" (1994) by Robert Hass, published by The Ecco Press: The first is a collection of poetry from the U.S. Poet Laureate and the second is a book he edited; he also wrote "Praise" (1981) and "Human Wishes" (1989). Books reviewed by WUNC children's book commentator Susie Wilde, October 21, 1996: "The Ballot Box" by Emily Arnold McCully, published by Knopf. "The Day Gogo Went to Vote, South Africa, 1994" by Elinor Sisulu, published by Little Brown. "Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers" by Karen Winnick, published by Boyds Mill Press. "Presidents" by Martin Sandler, published by HarperCollins. "Eleanor" by Barbara Cooney, published by Viking. "The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart" by Kristiana Gregory, published by Scholastic. "Take a Stand: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Government" by Daniel Weizman, published by Price Stern Sloan. "The Kid Who Ran for President" by Dan Gutman, published by Scholastic. 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.