Course Schedule – Fall 2024 / History and Philosophy / FASCINATING NONFICTION

Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein, Bob Reiss, Ruth Ward

At each session the presenter will tell you about a book you always wanted to read or about a book you never heard of but will be glad that you now have.

Selections range from transit maps to Mt. Everest expeditions, American politics, Western women’s diaries, young Ernest Hemingway, black migration, the sinking of the Lusitania, Frank Sinatra, American restaurants, the evolution of mankind. Every semester an eclectic array of fascinating nonfiction awaits its audience.

No advance reading is required.

B WEEK / WEDNESDAY / 10:30 AM – NOON

Other Classes:

• POWER: THE GLORY OF IT
• FLAWED GREATNESS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
• HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY
• NEW AND CLASSIC ESSAYS
• NYC AND ITS ENVIRONS: PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS
• EXPLORATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

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