Continuing an annual tradition, the Clinton School today announced 50 book recommendations from the new class of students in the Master of Public Service degree program.
Each year, new Clinton School students are asked to recommend one book for others to read. This year’s list features a number of nonfiction books focused on issues related to social justice, the environment, politics and economics, as well as several works of classic fiction.
The list includes authors from across the country and the world, including two from Arkansas: former President Bill Clinton and Pulitzer Prize winner Douglas A. Blackmon.
The books will be displayed at the eastern entrance of Sturgis Hall at the school’s main campus. They will also be available for purchase at Wordsworth Book and Co., an independent bookstore in Little Rock.
“I noticed a recurring theme in the list — helping the poor, a struggle for equality, a desire to make the world better — in short, public service,” said Jean Cazort, proprietor of Wordsworth. “This is a solid and impressive list.”
The annual list began with the school’s second class in 2006 and is one of the school’s most requested items. The selections of each class are included in the school library at Sturgis Hall.
The recommended reading from the Class of 2014 includes:
Jessica Boyd: “The Road of Lost Innocence” by Somaly Mam
Andre Breaux: “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion” by Jonathan Haidt
Kayla Brooks: “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander
Kathleen Brophy: “Orientalism” by Edward Said
Kent Broughton: “Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities” by Robert M. Franklin
Angela Bukenya: “The Call of Service” by Robert Coles
Matt Caston: “Slavery By Another Name” by Douglas A. Blackmon
Sara Chapman: “An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century” by James Orbinski
Krystle Chipman: “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical” by Shane Claiborne
Mara D’Amico: “Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up” by Paul Schmitz
Calandra Davis: “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition” by Cedric J. Robinson
John Delurey: “The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition and the Common Good” by Robert H. Frank
Charles Fleeman: “What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character” by Richard Feynman
Danae Halstead: “Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-based World” by John Hope Bryant
Alex Handfinger: “Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet” by Alisa Smith and J. B. Mackinnon
Maggie Hobbs: “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” by Bartolome de Las Casas
Foster Holcomb: “The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans” by Lawrence N. Powell
Chet Howland: “Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion” by Gary Webb
Angela Jimenez-Leon: “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ashley Jones: “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino
Immaculee Kayitare: “The Power of Unreasonable People” by John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan
Nate Kennedy: “Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72” by Hunter S. Thompson
Lindsay Kuehn: “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy
Nicole Maddox: “The Space Between Us” by Thrity Umrigar
Alex Mitchell: “Art Theft and Forgery Investigation: The Complete Field Manual” by Robert E. Spiel
Chris Morgan: “Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy” by Bill Clinton
Marisa Nelson: “Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala” by Daniel Wilkinson
Roger Norman: “Long Walk to Freedom” by Nelson Mandela
Sean O’Keefe: “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York” by Robert A. Caro
Abby Olivier: “Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal” by Conor Grennen
Matt Orr: “Invitation to a Beheading” by Vladimir Nabokov
Ann Owen: “Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life” by Barbara Kingsolver
Tyler Pearson: “The Social Animal” by David Brooks
Jacob Perry: “Zorba The Greek” by Nikos Kazantzakis
Sophia Pinakidou: “Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development” by Peter J. Hotez
Gregg Potter: “Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Nick Provencher: “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
Katie Powell: “The Theory of the Leisure Class” by Thorstein Veblen
Lauren Remedios: “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
Jenna Rhodes: “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)” by Neale Donald Walsch
Allie Rouse: “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
Aliyah Sarkar: “Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty” by Esther Duflo
Cathrine Schwader: “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer
James Stephens: “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo
Neena Viel: “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell
Josh Visnaw: “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn
Emily Wernsdorfer: “Coming of Age in Samoa” by Margaret Mead
Christian Williams: “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
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