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...York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list right now is "Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid; meanwhile, on the hardcover nonfiction list, Armstrong's "Islam" rides high at No.7, sandwiched in between "Germs" (Simon & Schuster) by Judith Miller at No.6 and "Holy War, Inc."(Free Press) by Peter L. Bergen...
...Muslim World and the Middle East, Armstrong's "Islam" and her stronger, earlier book "Muhammad"; Bernard Lewis' authoritative "The Middle East," and Geneive Abdo's insightful "No God But God." 3)Bin Laden Bios, "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" by Yossef Bodansky and Bergen's "Holy War, Inc." and 4)Relevant History, including "Five Days in London May 1940" by John Lukacs, "Pirate Utopias" by Peter Lamborn Wilson and "The Wars in Barbary" by Donald Barr Chidsey...
...Rights Alert reports that a book signed two years ago at The Free Press on Islamic fundamentalist leader Osama bin Laden is being moved up from next spring to November, with author Peter Bergen working on last-minute changes to bring his manuscript up to date. The book, "Holy War: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden" will be ready to crash to stores six weeks from now. Bergen is an analyst of terrorism for CNN, and one of the few Westerners ever to interview bin Laden, which he did in 1997. He has been studying...
...living room, so there?s a mercy. Back then, radio was the entertainment furniture of choice. American families gathered ?round the mahogany console and attended to some recent movie condensed to an hour ("Lux Radio Theatre") or to the plainly ab-surdist proposition of an unseen ventriloquist (Edgar Bergen with his puppet Char-lie McCarthy...
...Bergen said that the workshop received about 100 applications, but that there were only 35 funded positions for graduate students (each of which will receive a $500 stipend for their participation) and about 10 additional places for faculty participants...