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| Boris Pasternak (See "The Zhivago Affair:") |
MID SUMMER READING—Staffers
at PBS’ Washington Week asked its
panelists what they were reading over the summer. We’re a bit late in sharing this plethora of
recommended printed pages because it has been a busy summer. Despite so many books and so little time here’s
a belated sampling of who is reading what thanks to PBS.
Complete PBS survey selections:
Peter Baker—The New York Times: “The Zhivago Affair:
The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book,” by Peter Finn and
Petra Couvee (non-fiction/Random House)
James Kitfield—National Journal: “Bloodmoney” by David
Ignatius (W.W. Norton & Company)
Gwen Ifill—Washington Week: “Americanah” by
Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie (Random House);
“Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” by Charles Blow (Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt)
and “Hard Choices” by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)
Dan Balz—The Washington Post: “American Romantic”
By Ward Just (Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt);
“The Director” by David Ignatius (W.W. Norton) and “Washington Journal:
Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall” by Elizabeth Drew (Overlook
Press)
Kimberly Doziere—The Daily Beast: “The Trident: The
Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader” by Jason Redman and John Bruning
(Harper Collins).
Tom Gjelten—NPR: “Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories
from the New Cuba” edited by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo (OR Books).
Doyle McManus—The Los Angeles Times: “The Good Spy:
the life and death of Robert Ames” by Kai Bird (Crown).
Joan Biskupic—Reuters:
“TransAtlantic” by Colum McCann (Random House) and “The Second Amendment: A
Biography” by Michael Waldman.
Gloria Borger—CNN: “New Life, No Instructions” by Gail
Caldwell (Random House).
NON-PBS PICKS:
Stephen Colbert—The
Colbert Report: “Californnia” by Edan Lepucki (Hanchette)
Jon Foro—Amazon:
“Good Hunting” by Jack Devine (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
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