Char Justiss - Speaker, Book Reviewer and Historian

Material Offered:

Book Reviews

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert K. Massie.

The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and The Beginnings
of Superstardom in America, by Larry McMurtry.

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America,
by Henry Wiencek.

1776, by David McCullough

The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, by Robert M. Utley

April 1865: the Month that Saved America, by Jay Winik

Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt

The Fifties, by David Halberstam

What Fresh Hell is This:A Biography of Dorothy Parker, by Marion Meade

Programs

Thomas Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase, and Lewis and Clark

Sam Houston and the War of 1812

America's First Ladies

The Road to Appomattox and the Surrender of Robert E. Lee

West Point: the School and its Famous Cadets

History and Stories! The five most important letters in the word history are the last five that spell story! Char Justiss, a history professor at Mountain View College, always focuses on the stories behind history.

Char is a 6th generation Texan. Born in the Piney Woods of East Texas, she lived in Dallas for 30 years and currently lives in Midlothian.. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree from the University of North Texas in Denton.

Right out of college she worked for a year at KTRE-TV in Lufkin, Texas, and had her own television show interviewing notables in the East Texas area. When she moved to Dallas, she worked briefly at the Dallas Morning News before landing a job with TM Productions, a Jingle company that created musical ID's for radio and televion stations around the world. She has also taught in the Dallas School District and in the Diocese of Dallas.

She is a member of the Gen. Levi Casey Chapter of the National Society Daughter of the American Revolution, the James Butler Bonham Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Hood's Texas Brigade Association, the Dallas Historical Association, and the Texas State Historical Association. A former docent at the Hall of State, Char is also a member of the East Texas Historical Association and has been published in the East Texas Historical Journal.

Char's greatest interest is history and she has presented programs and book reviews to various historical and genealogical organizations in and around the Dallas area.

Please contact her at:

214-336-7770 or char@bestmanager.com