Author Archives: Bookworm
Asian American is Not A Color
Educator and race scholar OiYan Poon’s new book Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family (Beacon Press, 2024) is inspired by her daughter’s questions about race and racism. Poon conducted interviews with Asian Americans … Continue reading
A culture of readiness
Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Building an Unconquerable Organization (Routledge, 2022) challenges the notion that corporate crisis teams can be expected to swoop in and “save the day.” The book’s author, Brendan Monahan, says the role of the crisis team should … Continue reading
Touched by This Place
In his new book, Touched By This Place (Orbis Books, 2024), Benjamín Valentín encourages readers to recognize how place—the geographical place in which we live and move and have our being—affects and molds human thought, experience, memory, identity, and activity. In … Continue reading
An Innkeeper’s Memoir
It sounds like the premise of a movie or a novel: A couple ditches corporate life and buys and restores an inn on the coast of Maine. In actuality, it’s the real life story of 1986 Boston College grad Teri … Continue reading
Afghanistan and a disillusioned veteran
Final Engagement: A Marine’s Last Mission and the Surrender of Afghanistan (Diversion Books, 2024) is 2010 Boston College graduate Christopher Izant’s reckoning with America’s longest war, told through his team’s deadly last showdown fighting alongside Afghan forces against the Taliban. It … Continue reading
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Tales of a newspaper woman
Elizabeth Garver Jordan was a groundbreaking journalist, suffragist, and editor who gained notoriety for her coverage of the murder trial of Lizzie Borden. She also published detective novels and short story collections such as Tales of the City Room. She … Continue reading
The Big Squeeze
A new picture book from 2010 Boston College graduate Molly Harris shares a lesson about the importance of asking for help before burning out. The Big Squeeze (HarperCollins Children’s, 2024), illustrated by Alison Hawkins, tells the story of an eager … Continue reading
How gender politics broke a party and a nation
Lauren Haumesser, a 2010 Boston College graduate, conducts a fresh examination of antebellum politics by examining the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in her book The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Civil War, gender, History Department
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European studies
Gabriel Feldstein, a digital publishing and outreach specialist at O’Neill Library, has contributed a chapter to The Handbook for European Studies Librarians (University of Minnesota Libraries, 2024), edited by Brian Vetruba and Heidi Madden. It is a new open-access book … Continue reading
Words of wisdom
Boston College graduate Maria Leonard Olsen is a lawyer, journalist, and author who hosts the “Becoming Your Best Version” podcast. She shares words of wisdom from more than 75 inspiring women she has featured on her podcast in the book … Continue reading
