What are faculty reading this summer? Here are a few selections from the department in no particular order:
Non-fiction, academic and general
Robert Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts
Thomas Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Kenneth Davis, Don't Know Much About The Bible
Michael Mandelbaum, The Case for Goliath
John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads
Stephen Walt, Taming American Power
Philip Bobbit, The Shield of Achilles
Arthur Herman, To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
John Sargeant, Maggie: Her Fatal Legacy
Peter Hessler, Oracle Bones
Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow
Bruce Bawer, While Europe Slept
Michael J. Gretz and Ian Shapiro, Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media
Karin Muller, Japanland
Fiction:
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Arturo Pererz-Reverte, Purity of Blood.
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Ha Jin, War Trash
Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Peggy Rathman, Goodnight, Gorilla (over and over and over again)
