January Book Talks at the Library of Virginia

Tuesday, January 06, 2009
With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America
Time: 5:30 PM-6:30 PM
Place: Lecture Hall
FREE EVENT
Dr. Douglas A. Hicks, associate professor of leadership studies and
religion in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and executive
director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of
Richmond, will discuss and sign his new book, With God on All Sides:
Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America. Perhaps no other nation is
as religiously diverse as the United States. In With God on All Sides,
Hicks provides a roadmap for leaders of various kinds as they traverse
the post-9/11 landscape. Although the devout possess moral and spiritual
resources that can enrich civic life, leaders must also be prepared to
cope with nearly inevitable conflicts between people of different
faiths. Hicks tells the stories of how diverse Americans have
transformed public controversies into cases of cooperation. The key, he
believes, is to engage one another across lines of difference with a
spirit of humility, build communication and trust, and offer an
inclusive vision that is true to America's principles.

Monday, January 12, 2009
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Time: Noon-1:00 PM
Place: Conference Rooms
FREE EVENT
Douglas R. Egerton, professor of history at LeMoyne College, will
discuss and sign Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary
America, his lively and comprehensive account of black Americans and the
Revolutionary era in America. He recaptures the drama of slaves, freed
blacks, and white reformers fighting to make the young nation fulfill
its republican slogans. Although this struggle often unfolded in the
corridors of power, Egerton's narrative brims with compelling portraits
of forgotten figures such as Quok Walker, a Massachusetts runaway slave
who took his master to court and thereby helped end slavery in that
state; Absalom Jones, a Delaware house slave who bought his freedom and
later formed the Free African Society; and Gabriel, a young Virginia
artisan who was hanged for plotting to seize Richmond and hold James
Monroe hostage.

Friday, January 23, 2009
The Millionaires
Time: Noon-1:00 PM
Place: Conference Rooms
FREE EVENT
Author Inman Majors, who teaches fiction writing at James Madison
University, will talk about and sign his new novel of new money and old
manners, crossing The Great Gatsby with the spirit of Tom Wolfe. The
Millionaires is a portrait, raucous yet nuanced, of what the South has
been, and what it will become.

 

Attend and Win a Featured Book!

The Library of Virginia will hold a drawing for a FREE COPY of the
featured author's work at each of its Book Talk events. Registration
takes place before each event. You must be present to win.

 

Copies of these books are available in the Virginia Shop at the Library
of Virginia: 

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/whatwedo/shop.htm .

 

The Library of Virginia is located at 800 East Broad Street in downtown
Richmond.  A limited amount of free parking is available underneath the
building.

 

www.lva.virginia.gov

804.692.3500

 

 

 

 

 

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Tameka B. Hobbs

Program & Education Coordinator

The Library of Virginia

800 East Broad Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000

804.371.2126 - office

804.692.3814 - fax 

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