Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2025
Author Visit: Andrew Porwancher, American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews (2025) Professor Andrew Porwancher returns to SAS to uncover the close-knit and often surprising relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Jewish community. This lecture traces Roosevelt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzling ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered approach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led. Drawing on fresh research from his newest book, American Maccabee, Porwancher explores the complicated relationship between the leader of a youthful nation and the people of an ancient faith.
ANDREW PORWANCHER is a native of Princeton, New Jersey. He earned a BA in Communication from Northwestern, an MA in history from Brown, and a PhD in history at Cambridge. He is a Professor of History at Arizona State University. He previously held fellowships at Harvard, Oxford, and Princeton. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Wednesday, June 11 • 7:00pm-8:15pm • Zoom • Course 13337 • $30
Author Visit: Rumaan Alam, Entitlement (2024) In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Rumaan Alam will discuss his latest novel, Entitlement (2024). This fourth book by the author of the acclaimed Leave the World Behind (2020) has been named to many 2024 top book lists. Entitlement is about money, race, identity, privilege, class, and consumption. Set in pre-pandemic New York City, Brooke, the inexperienced Black female protagonist is hired by an old white billionaire to manage his philanthropy. Brooke's proximity to extreme wealth soon triggers her metamorphosis as she succumbs to the seductions of money and greed.
RUMAAN ALAM is the author of four novels: Leave the World Behind (nominated for the 2020 National Book Award and adapted as a film by Netflix in 2023), That Kind of Mother , Rich and Pretty , and Entitlement . He also hosts two podcasts for Slate. He grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C. and studied writing at Oberlin College. ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Elizabeth Harris, How to Sleep at Night (2025)”). Monday, June 16 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 13161 • $30
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