On Thursday, March 25, The University Bookman will host a virtual discussion with David Pietrusza about his latest book, Too Long Ago: A Childhood Memory. A Vanished World. This witty and wise tale of growing up in the 1950s and 60s in upstate New York is a window into the forgotten immigrant experience of Eastern Europeans in a hardworking mill town that became the first Rust Belt. It tells a saga of striking personalities in uncertain times, of popular culture (sometimes of comparatively high standards), and of the dispersion of tight-knit families through the eyes of a boy who came to discover a love of the country’s history.

David Pietrusza is the award-winning author of a series of books on twentieth- century presidential elections (1920, 1948, and 1960) and the editor of three volumes on President Calvin Coolidge. His book TR’s Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, The Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy was reviewed in The University Bookman.

Please join us Thursday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. ET by registering via Zoom at this link. By the way, if you missed our last virtual conversation with Grace Olmstead about Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind, C-SPAN’s Book TV will be re-airing the recording. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

Gerald Russello, editor
The University Bookman