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LVA Book Talks: Jack El-Hai (10/29) and Mary Henold (10/30)
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This Week at the Library of Virginia

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the 
World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai

Time: Noon–1:00 PM

FREE EVENT

Author Jack El-Hai will discuss his groundbreaking new biography of neurologist 
and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, featured in the PBS documentary The 
Lobotomist. El-Hai, whose work is based in part on archival research in 
Freeman’s personal papers at the George Washington University, takes readers 
into one of the darkest chapters of American medicine—the desperate attempt 
to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help 
during the middle decades of the twentieth century, before the introduction of 
effective psychiatric medication in the 1950s. A book signing will follow this 
event.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist 
Movement by Mary Henold

Time: Noon–1:00 PM

FREE EVENT

Mary J. Henold, assistant professor of history at Roanoke College, will explore 
and sign Catholic and Feminist, the first history of American Catholic feminism. 
Covering the movement from the 1960s through the early 1980s, Henold 
shows that although Catholic feminists had much in common with their sisters 
in the larger American feminist movement, Catholic feminism was distinct and 
had not been simply imported from outside.


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 the 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.  Free parking is available underneath the building.

www.lva.virginia.gov
804.692.3500

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