Besides having earned a PhD in Counselor Education, Purce鈥檚 resume includes having served as the first black elected official in Idaho, where he was the mayor of Pocatello, and having been a partner and chief operating officer of a fast-growing electrical engineering firm. His book picks include:
鈥淭he Dory Book,鈥� by John Gardner
鈥淭he Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America鈥檚 Great Migration,鈥� by Isabel Wilkerson
鈥淓mpire of the Summer Moon,鈥� by S.C. Gwynne
鈥�Gettysburg: The Last Invasion,鈥� by Allen Guelzo
鈥淢iddlesex,鈥� by Jeffrey Eugenides
鈥淭he Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America,鈥� by George Packer
鈥淐ity of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America,鈥� by John Miller
鈥淓mbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II,鈥� John W. Dower
鈥�Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,鈥� by Jimmy Carter
鈥淲illie Mays: The Life, The Legend,鈥� by James S. Hirsch
