Quest Courses – Spring 2023 / 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 non-fiction awaits its audience.
B WEEK / WEDNESDAY / 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Fascinating Nonfiction, Spring 2023 | ||
Date | Presenter | Title |
Feb 15 | Harriet Finkelstein | The Quiet Zone: Unravelling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy |
Mar 01 | Bob Reiss | Hitler's American Friends by Bradley Hart |
Mar 015 | Lois Cardillo | All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks |
Mar 29 | Paul Golumb | The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter |
Apr 19 | Wayne Cotter | The Upswing: How America Came Together A Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert Putnam |
May 03 | Larry Shapiro | Stay True by Hau Hsu |
May 17 | Harriet Finkelstein | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson |
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