The Graduate Center Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Prof. Emeritus David Nasaw, who wrote acclaimed biographies of Andrew Carnegie and Joseph P. Kennedy, opines on Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter https://t.co/Oz0At2C0Wv @HistoryGc

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On our holiday book list: “Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion,” by alumna @ElizabethLBlock, tells how the daughters and wives of late 19th-century American industrialists who were a fashion force https://t.co/owMFuKBZsD @GCArtHistory https://t.co/Cp4AHuPXEu

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On our holiday book list: “The Cosmos Explained: The History of the Universe From its Beginning to Today and Beyond,” by Professor @chuckliu tackles the history of the universe with the help of striking illustrations https://t.co/owMFuKBZsD @TheLiuniverse https://t.co/W96zHrbEov

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On our holiday book list: “The New College Classroom” by Prof. @CathyNDavidson and alumna @katopodis_phd is a how-to manual for engaging and empowering students through active learning https://t.co/owMFuKkoB5 @cunyenglish @FuturesED https://t.co/R27rgY1kG3

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On Wed, 11/16 @biographyctr welcomes Geoffrey Wheatcroft to discuss Churchill's Shadow (“the best single-volume indictment of Churchill yet published." - @nybooks) with best-selling author Simon Winchester. Reserve to join in-person or online: https://t.co/UIir8eMN35 https://t.co/6fwdWaAN4Z

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Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson spoke at the Graduate Center about her book, “Constructing a Nervous System,” which the Guardian called “a deeply personal account of black female identity” https://t.co/KMEtk5OwF2 #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM https://t.co/ReXvEYza2y

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On our holiday book list: “The Relativity of Living Well,” a collection of poems by alumna Ashna Ali (@doctordushtu), documents their pandemic experience as a queer immigrant of color and as a NYC public school teacher https://t.co/owMFuKBZsD @CompLitGCCUNY https://t.co/dIT3AmwkHE

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A great conversation with Prof. @dwaldstreicher about his book, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley" https://t.co/N89rM2g4BR https://t.co/LGKxPCSUn0

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Prof. @bencarp’s new book “The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" encourages a more “sophisticated understanding of the Revolution, if we can admit that the war was not always clean and shiny” https://t.co/p2nzwCaheU @HistoryGc @BklynCollege411

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“One thing about horror is that you can test yourself, you don’t have to pay the price of exposing yourself to danger,” said Professor Emeritus Noel Carroll, who wrote the 1982 book “The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart” https://t.co/3xQ8MW94xA #Halloween