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Book Talk: Glenn Ivers

September 5, 2023 By ml-admin

Angels of Bastogne: A Remembrance of World War II

Tuesday, September 26
1:00 to 2:30 PM

Free
Registration preferred

Based on the true story of U.S. Army doctor Captain John T. “Jack” Prior and Belgian nurses Renee Lemaire and Augusta Chiwy, Glenn Ivers’ novel Angels of Bastogne presents a fictionalized account of the harrowing events of December 1944: the Battle of the Bulge, and the bombing of Prior’s medical aid station.

The book is based on Prior’s personal World War II memoir. Audience participation is encouraged in the singing of songs from 1944 and the sharing of memories. Copies of Angels of Bastogne will be available for purchase and signing by the author. Cost is $20.00, cash or check.

Glenn H. Ivers, the author of Angels of Bastogne: A Remembrance of World War II, is a lifelong Syracuse resident and a graduate of Colgate University. He served in the United States Peace Corps and enjoyed a career in the fields of youth development, adult literacy and community health in Central New York. His three Telly Award-winning documentary films were distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service:

  • Hope is a Literate Woman with Hillary Clinton
  • Literacy Changes Lives with Barbara Bush
  • Song of the Refugee with Samite Mulondo

Jack Prior was a friend and mentor of Glenn Ivers.

Book Talk: Pandemic Politics

November 25, 2022 By ml-admin

Saturday, December 3
1:00 to 2:00 PM
Registration required.

Join us for a discussion with local author Shana Gadarian as she talks about her newest book, Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID.

Shana Kushner Gadarian is Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking and Chair in the Department of Political Science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. She received a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. She was previously Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research.

Her book Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, co-authored with Bethany Albertson, won the 2016 Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology and the 2021 Doris Graber award for best book in political communication, both from the American Political Science Association. Her new book on the coronavirus pandemic, Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Polarization in the Age of COVID, joint with Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas Pepinsky, was published in October 2022 from Princeton University Press.

Professor Gadarian’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Norwegian Research Council, Russell Sage Foundation, and Campbell Public Affairs Institute, among others. Her work has been published in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Political Psychology, Political Communication, Political Behavior, Perspectives on Politics, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and PLOS-One.