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 6/21 - 6/30/1999 June 21, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Who's Irish?" by Gish Jen, published by Random House. June 21, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the author "Hadrian's Walls" by Robert Draper, published by Alfred A. Knopf. June 22, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the author "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" by Thomas Friedman, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. June 23, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America?" by Cal Thomas, published by Zondervan. "Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973" by Robert Dalleck, published by Oxford University Press (1998). June 24, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The Holocaust in American Life" by Peter Novick, published by Houghton Mifflin. Novick is also the author of "That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession" (Cambridge University Press, 1988). "Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia" co-edited by Deborah Dash Moore, published by Routledge (1998). Moore is also the author of "At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews" (Columbia University Press, 1981). June 25, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The Knowledge Web: From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back-And Other Journeys through Knowledge" by James Burke, published by Simon & Schuster. June 25, 1999: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel spoke with the author "Orphans of the Cold War: The United States, China, and the Tragedy of Modern Tibet" by John Kenneth Knaus, published by Public Affairs. June 25, 1999: This American Life: "Sales" "Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop: And Some People" by Danny Hoch, published by Villard (1998). June 25, 1999: This American Life: "Sales" "Proof: Your Mind is God" by Diamond Jim Roy (to order send a $9 check to Diamond Jim Roy, 149 5th Street, Rankin, PA, 15104). June 26, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon spoke with the book's editor "The Best American Sportswriting of the Century" edited by David Halberstam, published by Houghton Mifflin. June 26, 1999: All Things Considered: Jacki Lyden talked with the author "Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence" by Martha Minow, published by Beacon Press (1998). June 26, 1999: All Things Considered: Jacki Lyden spoke with Professor Brinkley about these books as part of ATC's Summer Reading series "A Hoosier Holiday" by Theodore Dreiser, latest edition from Indiana University Press (1997). "The Magic Bus: An American Odyssey" by Douglas Brinkley, published by Harcourt Brace (1993). June 26, 1999: All Things Considered: Jacki Lyden spoke with the author "Three Quarters, Two Dimes and A Nickel: A Memoir of Becoming Whole" by Steve Feiffer, published by Free Press. June 27, 1999: Weekend Edition: Liane Hansen talked with one of the authors "Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America" by Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney, published by Simon & Schuster. June 28, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr." by Michael Eric Dyson, forthcoming from Free Press. Dyson is also the author of "Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line" (Vintage, 1997). June 29, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America" by Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney, published by Simon & Schuster. June 29, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "In September, the Light Changes" by Andrew Holleran, published by Hyperion. June 30, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals and Misbehavior in Modern America" by Mark Caldwell, published by Picador/St. Martin's Press. "Vamps and Tramps" by Camille Paglia, published by Vintage Books (1994). Paglia is also the author of "Sex, Art and American Culture" (Vintage, 1992). "Prayers in Precincts: The Christian Right in the 1988 Elections" edited by Mark Rozell, forthcoming from Georgetown University Press. Rozell is also a co-editor of "God at the Grassroots, 1996: The Christian Right in the American Elections" (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: June 21, 1999: "A Swordboat Captain's Journey" by Linda Greenlaw, published by Little, Brown. June 22, 1999: "Lie in the Dark" by Dan Fesperman, published by Soho Press. "Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending & the Battle Against World Poverty" by Mohammad Yunus, published by Public Affairs. June 23, 1999: "Nikita Khrushchev: Creation of a Superpower" by Sergei Khrushchev, forthcoming from Penn State University Press. June 24, 1999: "Juneteenth" by Ralph Ellison and edited by John Callahan, published by Random House. "The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison" edited by John Callahan, published by Modern Library (1995). June 25, 1999: "Sleeping Where I Fall" by Peter Coyote, published by Counterpoint Press. June 28, 1999: "Spam, A Biography: The Amazing True Story of America's 'Miracle Meat'" by Carolyn Wyman, published by Harvest Books. Wyman is also the author of "The Kitchen Sink Cookbook" (Birch Lane Press, 1997). June 29, 1999: "Appointment at the Ends of the World: Memoirs of a Wildlife Veterinarian" by William Karesh, published by Warner Books. "The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior" by Craig Stanford, published by Princeton University Press. Stanford also wrote "Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey" (Harvard University Press, 1998). June 30, 1999: "The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing" by Lori Arviso Alvord, published by Bantam Doubleday Dell. "Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy" by Kevin Bales, published by University of California press. 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.