James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College, will read from and sign Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War ($29.99 Thomas Dunne Books). Providing an important dimension to the profile of an American generation and a rich account of an American war, Enduring Vietnam recounts the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of families who grieved those who did not return. This book describes the baby boomers growing up in the 1950s, why they went into the military, what they thought of the war, and what it was like to serve in Nam. 

Andrew Carroll is the founding director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University. Along with editing The New York Times bestsellers War Letters and Behind the Lines. Carroll will discuss and sign his new book My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War ($30.00 Penguin Press). Drawing on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries, Carroll’s new book creates a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with General John Pershing featured prominently in the foreground. Carroll will also discuss the “Million Letters Campaign.”

James Stent, a banker with decades of experience in Asian banking and fluency in the Chinese language, will join us, in conversation with local author Peter Decker, to discuss his new book China's Banking Transformation: The Untold Story ($34.95 Oxford University Press). This timely and provocative book explains how Chinese banks work, analyzes their strengths and weaknesses, and sets forth the challenges they face in a slowing economy.