LeRoy Ashby, Washington State University award-winning Regents professor of history and author, will sign his new book at the WSU bookstore, the Bookie, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, during the university’s Homecoming.
The book, “With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830,” was published last spring.
In it, Ashby, a faculty member since 1972, contends American popular culture isn’t a distraction from the serious issues of our time. Rather, it is inseparable from them and always has been.
Read more about the book in a May 2006 story in WSU Today (https://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/completestory.asp?StoryID=2933).
Ashby is a Regents professor and the Claudius O. and Mary Johnson Distinguished Professor of History. He teaches popular culture and 20th century American history.
He is a recipient of the WSU President’s Faculty Excellence Award in Instruction and has twice been honored as the CASE Professor of the Year for the State of Washington.
Ashby is the author of “The Spearless Leader: Senator Borah and the Progressive Movement in the 1920’s;” “Saving the Waifs: Reformers and Dependent Children;” “William Jennings Bryan: Champion of Democracy;” “Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church;” and “Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect and Abuse in American History.”
