Book Reviews

Mount Gretna

Lebanon Valley College Book Review Series, Summer 2012, at the Pennsylvania Chautauqua Community Building, Mount Gretna. Tuesdays: 9:45 a.m., coffee and cookies, book reviews begin at 10 a.m.

June 12: Mark Mecham, Clark and Edna Carmean Professor of Music
Christopher Paolini, "Inheritance, or The Vault of Souls"

June 19: Jeffrey Robbins, associate professor of religion and philosophy
Olivier Roy, "Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways"

June 26: Gabriela McEvoy, assistant professor of Spanish
Isabel Allende, "The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir"

July 3: Kevin Pry, associate professor of English
James S. Shapiro, "Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?"

July 10: Stacy Goodman, professor of biology
Deborah Blum, "The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York"

July 17: Barbara McNulty, director of the Suzanne Arnold Gallery
Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, "Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum"

July 24: Jim Broussard, professor of history
Ron Chernow, "Washington: A Life"

July 31: Christopher Dolan, associate professor of political science
Leslie Dunton-Downer, "The English Is Coming!: How One Language Is Sweeping the World"

August 7: Paul Heise, professor emeritus of economics
Thom Hartmann, "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People'—And How You Can Fight Back"
Jeffrey Clements, "Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It"

August 14: Diane Johnson, associate professor of political science
Robert K. Massie, "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman"

Cornwall Manor
Lebanon Valley College Book Reviews Series Summer 2012 at Cornwall Manor, Freeman Auditorium, Cornwall, Pa.; Mondays, 1:45 p.m., coffee and cookies; book reviews begin at 2 p.m.

June 11: John Hinshaw, associate professor of history
Robert H. Frank, "Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class"

June 18: Marianne Goodfellow, associate professor of sociology
Kristin Kimball, "The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love"

June 25: Todd Snovel, student services
Jose Saramago, "Cain"

July 2: John Kearney, professor emeritus of English
David G. McCullough, "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris"

July 9: Mary Pettice, associate professor of English
Jeffrey Eugenides, "The Marriage Plot: A Novel"

July 16: Courtney Lappas, assistant professor of biology
Robert Graves, "I, Claudius: from the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C. and Deified A.D. 54"

July 23: Michael Schroeder, assistant professor of history
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class"

July 30: Karen Walker, associate professor of education
Tom Brokaw, "The Times of Our Lives"

August 6: Ann Damiano, associate dean of the faculty
Joyce Carol Oates, "A Widow’s Story: A Memoir"

August 13: Arthur Ford, professor emeritus of English
Paul Hendrickson, "Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961"