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Monday, February 12, 2007
4:30-5:30 p.m., Library Athenaeum
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
5:00 p.m., Boliou 104
American Prometheus
by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Though many recognize
Oppenheimer (1904–1967) as the father of the atomic bomb,
few are as familiar with his career before and after Los Alamos.
Martin Sherwin (A World Destroyed) has spent 25 years researching
every facet of Oppenheimer's life, from his childhood on Manhattan's
Upper West Side and his prewar years as a Berkeley physicist
to his public humiliation when he was branded a security risk
at the height of anticommunist hysteria in 1954. Teaming up with
Kai Bird, an acclaimed Cold War historian (The Color of Truth),
Sherwin examines the evidence surrounding Oppenheimer's "hazy
and vague" connections to the Communist Party in the 1930s — loose
interactions consistent with the activities of contemporary progressives.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Convocation, 10:50 a.m.
Book signing to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Having Faith: And Ecologist's Journey
to Motherhood
by Sandra Steingraber
As an ecologist, Sandra Steingraber spent her professional life
observing how living things interact with their environments.
Now, 38 and pregnant, she had become a habitat — for a
population of one. Having Faith is Steingraber's exploration
of the intimate ecology of motherhood.
Berkley Trade. Paperback. $14.00 |
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Convocation, 10:50 a.m.
Book signing to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage,
Identity, and Adoption
by Randall Kennedy
In Interracial Intimacies, Randall Kennedy hits a nerve
at the center of American society: race relations and our most
intimate ties to each other. Writing with the same piercing intelligence
he brought to his national bestseller Nigger: The Strange
Career of a Troublesome Word, Kennedy here challenges us
to examine how prejudices and biases still fuel fears and inform
our sexual, marital, and family choices.
Vintage. Paperback. $17.00 |
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Friday, January 5, 2007
Convocation, 10:50 a.m.
Book signing to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of
Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. When
three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency
room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion
from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would
ever recover. When Lia Lee Entered the American medical system
as a Hmong child, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became
a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Paperback. $15.00 |
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Rereadings:
Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
edited by Anne Fadiman
Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time
around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection
of essays all agree on the answer: Never. These essays are not conventional
literary criticism; they are about relationships. The relationship
between reader and book is a powerful one, and as these writers attest,
it evolves over time.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Paperback. $13.00 |
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Convocation, 10:50 a.m.
Book signing to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of
American Racism
by James W. Loewen
No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten
rule in a "sundown" town. In his trademark revelatory
style, bestselling author James W. Loewen explores one of America's
best-kept secrets as he unearths the making of sundown towns
and discloses the fact that many white neighborhoods and suburbs
are the result of years of racism and segregation. Powerful and
unprecedented, Sundown Towns tells the story of how these towns
came into existence, what maintains them, and what to do about
them.
Touchstone. Paperback. $17.00 |
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When Aaron Maciver's wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike
accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-year-old.
In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for her
in this exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes
and alters the boundaries of love.
Doubleday Books. Hardcover. $22.95.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 7:00 p.m.
Olin Hall, Room 149
Carleton College
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