McCourt Faculty Share Summer Reading Picks
Summer is just around the corner and McCourt’s faculty are preparing their summer reading lists. Take a look at some of their suggestions
below:
Michael A Bailey, Interim Dean and Colonel William J. Walsh Professor of American Government
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis The Presidential Pardon Power by Jeffrey P. Crouch The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson
Jacobus Cilliers, Assistant Teaching Professor
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis The Power by Naomi Alderman Happiness by Aminatta Forna
Sheila Foster, Professor of Law and Public Policy (joint appointment with Georgetown Law)
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, by Richard Sennett
Gerry Gingrich, Director for the Executive Master in Policy Leadership (EMPL)
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Nora Gordon, Associate Professor
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
William Gormley, University Professor, Co-Director Center for Research on Children in the U.S.
Good things happen slowly: A life in and out of Jazz by Fred Hersh The Shakespeare requirement by Julie Schumacher Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker
Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr, S.J. Professor of Public Policy
Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide by Alan Blinder Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
Andreas Kern, Assistant Teaching Professor
Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? The United States, the IMF, and the International Lender of Last Resort by Daniel McDowell Transparency, Democracy, and Autocracy: Economic Transparency and Political (In)Stability by James Raymond Vreeland I Do What I Do by Raghuram G. Rajan
Kathy Kretman, Director, Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership; Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Jonathan Ladd, Associate Professor
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt Why Washington Won’t Work: Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis by Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph
Beryl Radin, Adjunct Professor
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Eva Rosen, Assistant Professor
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen
Mark Rom, Associate Professor
Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education by Stephen Kosslyn and Ben Nelson On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories by Charles Bukowski
Barbara Schone, Teaching Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Faculty Director, MPP Program
L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home by David Lebovitz Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life by Amy Herman The Origins of Behavioral Public Policy by Adam Oliver
Laila Wahedi, Fellow at the Massive Data Institute
The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
Franck Wiebe, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling Three Minutes by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom
Andrew Zeitlin, Assistant Professor
Radical Markets by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl Bit by bit: Social Research in the Digital Age by Matthew Salganik The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan