Bookmarks: Paging Through New Works from Lawrentians
Literary Lawrenceville alumni battle book-banning, explain how to halt the effects of sedentary life on screens, and reveal the broad clout of a turn-of-the century New Jersey mayor.
Samuel Cohen ’85
Banning Books in America: Not a How-To
Why are some Americans so determined to decide which books other Americans should get to read? Here, Cohen, associate chair of English at the University of Missouri, has edited a collection of novelists and educators’ views from the trenches of the war on reading. These are their models for how to think about what book banning means and how to fight back.
Manoush Zomorodi ’91
Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being
The host of the NPR’s TED Radio Hour and Body Electric podcast, Zomorodi interviewed experts, conducted citizen experiments, and sought out research about how our digital lives are changing the way we think, learn, and feel. Now, she presents a timely investigation into how sitting in front of screens for eight to 10 hours a day is reshaping our bodies — from breath and eyesight to blood pressure, posture, and productivity — and how a simple shift can change everything.
Nicholas Fagan Dealy ’95
Fagan of Hoboken & the Horseshoe
An Irish immigrant, the multifaceted Lawrence Fagan eared renown in late 19th-century Hudson County, N.J., as a successful ironmaster, newspaper publisher — and as the mayor of Hoboken, determined to upend political and municipal corruption. Dealy presents a lively and well-researched look at his great-grandfather’s life of political influence that was felt throughout the state.