Book Reviews
Cornwall Manor
Lebanon Valley College Book Reviews Series Summer 2013 at Cornwall Manor, Freeman Auditorium, Cornwall, Pa.; Mondays, 1:45 p.m., coffee and cookies; book reviews begin at 2 p.m.
June 10: Beth Underwood, instructor in Italian
Leonard Marcus, "Listening to Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L’Engle in Many Voices"
June 17: John Kearney, professor emeritus of English
Stephen Greenblatt, "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," and Elaine Pagels, "Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation"
June 24: Carolyn Hanes, professor of sociology
David Janssen, "The Real Fugitive" (a special presentation on the actor who starred in the hit TV series The Fugitive)
July 1: Betsy Gonzalez, lecturer in English
Chang-rae Lee, "A Gesture Life"
July 8: Ann Damiano, associate dean of the faculty
Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, eds., "The Selected Letters of Willa Cather"
July 15: Michael Schroeder, assistant professor of history
Robert Kagan, "The World America Made"
July 22: Courtney Lappas, assistant professor of biology
Laura Hillenbrand, "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption"
July 29: Mary Pettice, associate professor of English
James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
August 5: Arthur Ford, professor emeritus of English
David Skinner, "The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published"
August 12: Philip Benesch, associate professor of political science
Steven Pinker, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined"
Mount Gretna
Lebanon Valley College Book Review Series, Summer 2013, at the Pennsylvania Chautauqua Community Building, Mount Gretna. Tuesdays: 9:45 a.m., coffee and cookies; book reviews begin at 10 a.m.
June 11: Mark Mecham, Clark and Edna Carmean professor of music
Halldór Laxness, "The Fish Can Sing"
June 18: Paul Heise, professor emeritus of economics
Hedrick Smith, "Who Stole the American Dream?"
June 25: Christopher Dolan, associate professor of political science
Max Brooks, "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War"
July 2: Kevin Pry, associate professor of English
Scott Miller, "The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century"
July 9: Philip Benesch, associate professor of political science
Steven Pinker, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined"
July 16: Jim Broussard, professor of history
Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln"
July 23: Stacy Goodman, professor of biology
Sam Kean, "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements"
July 30: Barbara McNulty, director of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery
Robert Edsel, "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History"
August 6: Jeffrey Robbins, professor of religion and philosophy
Jim Holt, "Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story"
August 13: Diane Johnson, associate professor of political science
Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn, "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide"