Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – Earlier this year, we posted a recommended reading list from our current crop of Clinton School students. Those books are now on display at Sturgis Hall. Recently, several of the students decided to create a recommended reading list from the Clinton School faculty. So, without further ado, we give you the Clinton School Faculty Reading List:
Skip Rutherford, Dean
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
Local:
The Long Shadow of Little Rock by Daisy Bates
Fearless: Irene Gaston Samuel and the Life of A Southern Liberal by Laura A. Miller
Vada: Nothing Personal, Just Politics by Vada Sheid
(Vada Sheid was the first woman in her own right elected to both the Arkansas House and the Arkansas Senate)
Mike Hemphill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky (Simon & Schuster, 1986)
John DiPippa, Professor of Law and Public Policy
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
V by Thomas Pynchon
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Culture Wars: the Struggle to Define American Culture by James Hunter
Habits of the Heart by Robert Bellah
Joe Ballard, Director of Public Service Projects
Life & Times of Michael K by JM Coetzee
Marie Lindquist, Director of Field Service Education
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer
Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Famer by Tracy Kider
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Al Bavon, Associate Professor of Management and Administration
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Christy Standerfer, Assistant Professor of Field Service Education
The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey
Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres by Gerard Hauser