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INTRODUCING..... Robert S. McElvaine  “If Robert McElvaine had been Jesus’ lawyer,” the late George Carlin wrote of Bob’s latest book, GRAND THEFT JESUS, “Pontius Pilate would have released him on his own recognizance.”Robert S. McElvaine has lectured to enthusiastic audiences around the United States and in the United Kingdom, Russia, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, South Africa, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. McElvaine, Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College, has received many awards for his innovative and exciting teaching, including a silver medal in the Carnegie-CASE National Professor of the Year program. After establishing himself as one of the world’s leading experts on the era of the Great Depression, he broadened his interests, first by writing books on contemporary politics, then by undertaking a twelve-year study that reinterprets human history from evolution to the present on the basis of misconceptions of sexual differences. That research led him into the ways views of sex and women have shaped religions. His books have been praised by people as diverse as Betty Friedan and biologist E.O. Wilson, Studs Terkel and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Rabbi Harold Kushner and Pete Seeger. Publishers Weekly says of Grand Theft Jesus: “Full of wordplay, puns and parodies, this no-holds-barred satirical polemic eviscerates the religious right.” McElvaine is the author of ten books, including the classics Down and Out in the Great Depression and The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941, twenty-fifth anniversary editions of which are appearing in 2008 and 2009, Mario Cuomo, What’s Left: A New Democratic Vision for America, and Eve’s Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History. His articles and opinion pieces appear frequently in such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. He writes often on the Huffington Post and has been a guest on dozens of television and radio programs, including NBC’s Today, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition, and BBC television and radio. He is currently at work on a book on America in the 1960s, Oh Freedom!, which is under contract with Norton, as well as on a novel and a screenplay. Honorarium Range: $5,000 - $10,000 Books by Robert S. McElvaine
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