practiced law in Chicago for 18 years before becoming president of St. John鈥檚 College (Annapolis) in 1991. Here's what Nelson is reading:
"Silk Parachute," by John McPhee
"Plutarch鈥檚 Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans," a collection of 50 essays on the lives of 50 significant leaders who shaped the character and course of events in Athens, Sparta, Rome and surrounding cities from their founding through the first century A.D.
"The Way of Ignorance," by Wendell Berry
"Mortality," by Christopher Hitchens
"Un-Willing: An Inquiry into the Rise of Will鈥檚 Power and an Attempt to Undo It," by Eva Brann
