In Our Time
Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest
Continent and What We Can Do About It by Giles Bolton
“The plight of Africa is a topic I wrestle with every fall in my introductory course
on Africa.”
— Robert Daniels, anthropology
Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era by Michael Oriard “A UNC Press book by a current academic and former college and pro football player (Notre Dame and Kansas City Chiefs). Oriard examines at least five different, legitimate concerns about current-day college football. Unlike some knee-jerk criticisms of college athletics, I would call this one constructively critical and thought-provoking.” — Jack Evans, business
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President
by Taylor Branch ’ 68
— Buck Goldstein ’ 70, business, and Holden Thorp ’ 86, chancellor
Dangerously Funny: The
Uncensored Story of The
Smothers Brothers Comedy
Hour by David Bianculli
“I had thoroughly enjoyed the program and the Smothers Brothers act
in the ’60s. This book reminded me
of the tension among the Smothers
Brothers, CBS and the FCC.”
— Jack Evans
Descent into Chaos: The U.S.
and the Disaster in Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
— Michael Hunt, history
Game Change: Obama and the
Clintons, McCain and Palin, and
the Race of a Lifetime by John
Heilemann and Mark Halperin
— James Moeser, former chancellor,
and William Roper, medical school
dean and CEO of UNC Health Care
M Solar by Ian McEwan
— Emil Kang, Carolina Performing Arts; Randall
Kenan ’ 85, English; and Christopher Armitage, English
Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington
Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
— William Roper
Thing s You Should
Have Read in College
But Probably Read the CliffsNotes
The Aeneid by Virgil
— Larry Goldberg, English
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“… just because it’s been too long and I’m craving
something thick.”
— Marianne Gingher, English
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
— Larry Goldberg
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
by Thor Heyerdahl
“I’m just trying to catch up for all the adventure read-
ing I missed in eighth grade while I was pining over
Michelle B’s lack of interest in me.”
— Paul O’Connor, journalism
Middlemarch by George Eliot
“I’m so behind in my reading that I rarely get around to
anything until at least a century or
more after it first comes out. Anna
Karenina [by Leo Tolstoy] and
Middlemarch have been favorites
in recent years. I read most of
Faulkner long ago but I’d love to
do that again, but there is also
pleasure in getting out of my familiar track in the American South.
The big Russians are a long-term target and so is Joyce.”
— Harry Watson, history
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
— Emil Kang, Carolina Performing Arts
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
— Jack Evans
CAROLINA ALUMNI REVIEW
