FALL 2011 TITLES

 

		There and Back Commentary by a Former Foreign Correspondent With a Foreword by Ted Koppel   by Barrie Dunsmore   In an era of instant access to worldwide news, we are lucky to have voices who can speak from the vantage point of many years of on-the-ground experience.  Barrie Dunsmore, who traveled the world for over thirty years as a foreign correspondent with ABCNews, has one of those voices. He is able to analyze    current events with a veteran reporter's eye, a humble sense of humor, and a longer view of history than most contemporary opinion-based news sources. He is a careful keeper of our collective world history, and as such offers an important and increasingly rare perspective on current events.
		82 Remsen Street Coming of Age in Brooklyn Heights, Circa 1930-1940   by Alice Davidson Outwater    In 82 Remsen Street author Alice Davidson Outwater has written a tender, loving, and often humorous portrait of a 1930-1940's childhood growing up in Brooklyn Heights: part personal memoir, part social history, and an altogether beguiling and vibrant portrait of a remarkable time and place. Brooklyn Heights became New York's first suburb in the early 1900s when the Brooklyn Bridge connected the more sheltered Brooklyn community on the East River bluff to Manhattan, and to the tidal changes of the larger outside world. Outwater's generation was sandwiched between two world wars; it navigated a sea of European immigration, and was caught in the wake of the stock market's rise and fall.