This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, This American Life. A date of publication is only given if the book was not published in 1999. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 5/31-6/20/1999 May 31, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the author "Havana Bay" by Martin Cruz Smith, published by Random House. May 31, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the author "Lie in the Dark" by Dan Fesperman, published by Soho Press. May 31, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Letters of a Nation" by Andrew Carroll, published by Broadway Books (1997). June 1, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstruction of Social Order" by Francis Fukuyama, published by Free Press. Fukuyama's other books include "Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity" (Free Press, 1996) and "The End of History and the Last Man" (Avon Books, 1993). June 2, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Fault Lines: Journeys into New South Africa" by David Goodman, published by University of California Press. June 3, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN" by Phyllis Bennis, published by Interlink Publishing. "Origins of a Catastrophe" by Warren Zimmerman, published by Times Books. "Almost a Revolution: The Story of a Chinese Student's Journey from Boyhood to Leadership in Tiananmen" by Shen Tong, published by University of Michigan Press. "The China Reader: The Reform Years" by Orville Schell, published by Random House. Schell is also the author of "Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders" (Simon & Schuster, 1994). "The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray" by James Miles, published by University of Michigan (1996). June 4, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches" by Cornelia Dean, published by Columbia University Press. June 5, 1999: Weekend All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling spoke with the editor "Carl Sandburg: Poems of the People" edited by George Hendrick, published by Ivan R. Dee Inc. June 5, 1999: Weekend Edition: Dan Schorr spoke with the author "The Serbs: History, Myth and Destruction of Yugoslavia" by Tim Judah, published by Yale University Press (1998). June 5, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon spoke with the author "The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir" by Tony Hiss, published by Alfred A. Knopf. June 6, 1999: Weekend All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author "A Prayer for the Dying" by Stuart O'Nan, published by Henry Holt & Co. June 8, 1999: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel talked to the author "Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire" by Jason Goodwin, published by Henry Holt & Co. June 8, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Resolving the Pacific Salmon Treaty Stalemate" by Jeff Curtis, issued jointly by Trout Unlimited U.S. and Trout Unlimited Canada; downloadable in pdf format from http://www.tu.org/library/conservation.html June 9, 1999: Robert Siegel spoke with the author "Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War" by Rick Atkinson, published by Houghton Mifflin (reprint paperback edition, 1994). June 10, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Foreign Brides" by Elena Lappin, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Lappin's essay "The Man With Two Heads" is featured in the recent journal Granta 66: Truth and Lies. "Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans" by David Stoll, published by Westview Press. "The Autobiography of Howard Hughes" by Clifford Irving, available online only at http://www.terrificbooks.com June 11, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Hannibal" by Thomas Harris, published by Delacorte Press. Harris is also the author of "The Silence of the Lambs" (St. Martin's, 1991). June 12, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon and Elvis Mitchell discussed the rerelease of the film based on the novel "The Learning Tree" by Gordon Parks, published by Fawcett Books (1992). June 14, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer talked to the author "Sleeping Through the Night...and Other Lies: The Mysteries, Marvels and Mayhem in the First Three Years of Parenthood" by Sandi Kahn Shelton, published by St. Martin's Press. June 14, 1999: All Things Considered: Noah Adams talked with a freelance abridger of books to be recorded for audio release and the author of a book being abridged "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" by David Simon, published by Ivy Books, 1993 (Audio cassette version from Bantam Doubleday Audio Cassettes, 1997). June 15, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Does Transit Work: A Conservative Reappraisal" by Paul Weyrich and William S. Lind, available online at http://www.apta.com/info/online/weyrich2new.htm June 16, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Makai" by Kathleen Tyau, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. June 16, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Two Voices" by Brian Doyle and Jim Doyle, published by Ligouri (1996). June 17, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "She Had Some Horses" by Joy Harjo, published by Thunders Mouth (1984). "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko, published by Penguin USA (1988). "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate" by Bob Woodward. Woodward is also the author of "All the President's Men" (Touchstone Books, 1994). June 18, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "A Vaudeville of Devils: Seven Moral Tales" by Robert Girardi, published by Delacorte Press. June 18, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Annals of the Former World" by John A. McPhee, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux (1998). June 19, 1999: Weekend All Things Considered: From the summer reading series "Charlotte Temple" by Susanna Haswell Rowson, published by Oxford University (reprint edition, 1987). June 19, 1999: Weekend Edition: the author spoke about his book and career "Jazz Seen" by William Claxton, published by TASCHEN America LLC. June 20, 1999: Weekend All Things Considered: Tom Vitale reports on the new book "Juneteenth" by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: May 31, 1999: "The Pity of War: Explaining World War I" by Niall Ferguson, published by Basic Books. Ferguson's other books include "Paper and Iron" (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and "The House of Rothschild" (Viking Press, 1998). "Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina" compiled by Horst Faas and Tim Page, published by Random House (1997). June 1, 1999: "Turn of the Century" by Kurt Anderson, published by Random House. "Another Life: A Memoir of Other People" by Michael Korda, published by Random House. Korda is also the author of "Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer" (Vintage Books, 1997). June 2, 1999: "Man Without a Gun: One Diplomat's Secret Struggle to Free the Hostages, Fight Terrorism, and End a War" by Giandomenico Picco, published by Times Books. June 3, 1999: "I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up" by Jesse Ventura, published by Villard. June 4, 1999: "Respect for Acting" by Uta Hagen, published by Macmillan General Reference (1979). Hagen is also the author of "A Challenge for the Author" (Scribner, 1991). June 7, 1999: "Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf" by Bill Murray with George Peper, published by Doubleday. "A Coffin for Demetrios" by Eric Ambler, published by Carroll & Graf (1996). "Lie in the Dark" by Dan Fesperman, published by Soho Press. June 9, 1999: "Father/land: A Personal Search for the New Germany" by Frederick Kempe, published by Putnam. June 10, 1999: "Election: A Novel" by Tom Perrotta, published by Berkley Publishing Group (1998). Perrotta is also the author of "The Wishbones" (Berkley reprint ed., 1999) and "Bad Haircut" (Berkley reprint ed., 1997). June 14, 1999: "Bootleg" by Damon Wayans, published by HarperCollins. June 15, 1999: "The Last Trek, A New Beginning: The Autobiography" by F. W. DeKlerk, published by St. Martin's Press. "Music for Torching" by A. M. Homes, published by Weisbach/Morrow. June 16, 1999: "Truth to Tell: Tell it Early, Tell it All, Tell it Yourself: Notes from My White House Education" by Lanny Davis, published by Free Press. June 17, 1999: "Show Me the Magic: My Adventures in Life and Hollywood" by Paul Mazursky, published by Simon & Schuster. June 18, 1999: "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" by John M. Gottman, published by Crown. Gottman is also the author of "Why Marriages Succeed or Fail" (Fireside, 1995). "When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships" by Neil S. Jacobson and John M. Gottman, published by Simon & Schuster (1998). Book review listings are available on the internet (http://metalab.unc.edu/wunc) or via anonymous ftp (metalab.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews). This text is Copyright (c) 1999 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Heidi Dressler (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.