Stan Cox, author of Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer), and Michael Clendenin, Con Edison spokesman, talk about electricity use in the city during the hot summer months and alternatives to turning up your air conditioner.
742 July 7 Steve Carell 6090
, Despicable Me (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)
, Date Night
CHARLIE ROSE: Stephen Kinzer is here. He is the former "New York
Times" foreign correspondent and the author of several books including
"Overthrow" and "Crescent and Star." His new book makes the case that the
United States should build a new relationship with Turkey and Iran. It is
called "Reset -- Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future."
I am pleased to have him here back at this table. Welcome.
STEPHEN KINZER: Great to be with you.
CHARLIE ROSE: Talk to me about Turkey.
STEPHEN KINZER: I think the key to Turkey’s success as a nation has
been that in its 85 years of existence, it has managed to change with the
times. Turkey was founded as an authoritarian country at the time when the
idea of dictatorship was very prominent.
After World War II, the world didn’t like dictatorship anymore. We
wanted democracy. Turkey was a one-party state that voluntarily
transformed itself into a multi-party state with an election. And then the
party that had been in power since the founding of the republic lost and
they left power freely.
, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
741 July 6 Garret Keizer 6089
, Help: The Original Human Dilemma
CHARLIE ROSE: Joining me now to talk about summer books is Lev Grossman, author and book critic for "Time" magazine. I’m pleased to have him at this table to introduce us to what you might be reading this summer. So welcome.
LEV GROSSMAN: Thank you.
CHARLIE ROSE: Where do we start? What do you think will be the big commercial success this summer that we’ll see everybody reading on the beach?
LEV GROSSMAN: Well, I believe and also kind of hope that it will be Justin Cronin’s "The Passage." Justin Cronin is probably not a writer who you are intimately familiar with. He is what call is called these days a midlist literary writer who a couple years ago had an inspiration for a horrific vampire apocalypse novel, and he wrote it.
739 July 1 Manny Howard 6087
In his new book, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," Michael Lewis tells the story of several key players in the subprime mortgage crisis who understood what was happening to the market and were able to make huge amounts of money in the transactions. He is also the author of "The Blind Side" which was the basis of a 2009 movie that won Sandra Bullock an Academy Award for Best Actress. He is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.Listen to the interview here. See also: Liar's Poker
, The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)
CHARLIE ROSE: Alan Furst is here. His work as a spy novelist is
often compared with masters of the genre like Graham Greene and John Le
Carre. His latest novel is "Spies of the Balkans." I'm pleased to have him
here. Here we are set in Greece.
ALAN FURST: Correct.
CHARLIE ROSE: We have a police captain.
ALAN FURST: Police official.
CHARLIE ROSE: Who has to make a decision. War is coming.
, Night Soldiers: A Novel
, The Polish Officer: A Novel
, Kingdom of Shadows
738 June 30 None Nicholas G. Carr None 6086
, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
, IT Doesn't Matter-Business Processes Do: A Critical Analysis of Nicholas Carr's I.T. Article in the Harvard Business Review
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