This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Fresh Air Weekend, This American Life. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 9/7- 9/13/1998 September 7, 1998: All Thing Considered: Noah Adams talked with the singer "Nanci Griffith's Other Voices: A Personal History of Folk Music," by Nanci Griffith and Joe Jackson, published by Three Rivers Press. September 7, 1998: All Thing Considered: Noah Adams talked with landscape architect and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Design at UC Davis.. "The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class," (Schocken 1976) by Dean MacCannell. A new edition of this book will be published by University of California Press in 1999. September 7, 1998: All Thing Considered: An Alan Cheuse Review: "The Farming of Bones," by Edwidge Danicat, published by Soho Press. Cheuse found this novel, set on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1937, compelling. September 7, 1998: Talk of The Nation: "The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out The Way They Do: Parents Matter Less Than You Think and Peers Matter More," by Judith Harris, published by Free Press. "The Nature of the Child," (Basic Books 1994) by Dr. Jerome Kagan. September 8, 1998: Talk of The Nation: "How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living," (Morrow 1995) by Rushworth Kidder. "Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (Simon & Schuster 1995) by David Reiff. September 9, 1998: All Thing Considered: Noah Adams talked with the author about the work of the country artist Charlie Feathers. "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," (Little Brown 1994) by Peter Guralnick. September 9, 1998: All Thing Considered: Robert Siegel talked with Marvin Taylor about the career of the prolific diarist. "A Diary of the Century," (Kodansha America 1995) by Edward Robb Ellis. September 9, 1998: All Thing Considered: Noah Adams talked with the editor. "The All-Time Major League Handbook," edited by Bill James, published by Stats, Inc. September 10, 1998: All Thing Considered: Robert Siegel talked with the author and professor of history at Boston University. "Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents," (Hyperion 1996) by Robert Dallek. "Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973," by Robert Dallek, published by Oxford University Press. September 10, 1998: All Thing Considered: Noah Adams interviewed the author. "Roadster: How (and Especially Why) a Mechanical Novice Built a Sports Car from a Kit," by Chris Goodrich, published by HarperCollins. September 10, 1998: Talk of The Nation: "The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846," (University of New Mexico 1982) by David Weber. "James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse," (Harper 1996) by Sam Haynes. "The Texas Challenge: Population Change and the Future of Texas," (Texas A & M University Press 1997) by Steve Murdock. September 11, 1998: All Thing Considered: Noah Adam spoke with the author about his latest book. "Annals of the Former World," by John McPhee, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. September 13, 1998: Weekend Edition: Liane Hansen interviewed the author and doctor about her recovery from a head injury. "Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out," by Dr. Claudia Osborn, published by Andrews McMeel. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: September 7, 1998: "Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined," by Drew Carey, published by Hyperion. "Remembering the Catskills: tales by a Recovering Hotelkeeper," by Esterita Blumberg, published by Purple Mountian Press. September 9, 1998:: "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa," by Adam Hochschild, published by Houghton Mifflin. September 10, 1998: "The Reshifting Web: Poems, 1970-1998," by Arthur Sze, published by Copper Canyon Press. "Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children Society, and Performance in a Pill," by Lawrence Diller, published by Bantam Books. September 11, 1998: "Tracy Takes On," by Tracey Ullman, published by Hyperion. Book review listings are available on the internet (http://sunsite.unc.edu/wunc) or via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews). This text is Copyright (c) 1998 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Don Sechler (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.