by Susan | Aug 16, 2016 | Book Review
I picked up a copy of Aldous Huxley’s 1936 novel, Eyeless in Gaza, soon after I returned from a trip to Gaza. I knew that the book was not related to the modern Gaza – the title was taken from Milton’s Samson Agonistes: … Promise was that I Should...
by Susan | Nov 26, 2015 | Book Review, Good to Know!
Confession time. I’ve been talking about Gordon Allport’s book The Nature of Prejudice (1954) as if I wrote the darn thing myself when, in truth, my exposure was probably a page or two in a social psychology textbook forty years ago. It seems like the...
by Susan | Aug 25, 2015 | Book Review, Good to Know!
We’re going to start publishing the occasional book review on the peaceCENTER’s Web site. This is the first: Read this book: “Levittown: two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America’s legendary suburb” by David Kushner (Walker...