Got to Larry’s shop and found four things:

A Ted Sizer hardback in great shape that I hadn’t seen before. He was the school leader of my high school until the year I arrived. I wish I’d met him. Horace’s Compromise remains one of the better books about what it means to be a teacher. I’m interested in this memoir.

(Theodore R. Sizer, The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).

Tom Sugrue’s latest book. I didn’t get it when it first came out and was thrilled to see a hardback in great shape.

(Thomas J. Sugrue, Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).

A book that I must have read a review about because as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted it.

Frederic Raphael, A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus (Pantheon, 2013).

And lastly, a book on a mathematician because I’m always looking for books for my math and science teachers. Will post citation later.