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Arrowsmith
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Deals with the dilemmas of science, funding, and professional ethics. |
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Babbitt
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Panorama of associational life in mid-America from the men's side. |
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Barchester Towers
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Set in Mythical English cathedral town in middle 19th century, captures many of the essential qualities of nonprofit organizations. |
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Bleak House
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Not only offers a dark view of British equity jurisprudence, but a savage satire of comtemportary philanthropy. |
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Blood Money
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Involves an elaborate and well articulated scheme to distribute several billion in ill-gotten gains throughout the American nonprofit sector. |
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Blue Ladies
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A novel about a fundraiser in low end New York art Museum who is given a massive and important art collection. |
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Books for Children on Philanthropy and Volunteerism
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A large of liust of books available for teaching children about giving. |
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Cause Celeb
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Humorous and incisive view of the hazards of using celebities in fundraising. |
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Cornish Trilogy
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After working as an art assessor and spying for the British from a Bavarian castle during World War II, he spends the rest of his life amassing a tremendous collection of art, books, and manuscripts, which he leaves to his college and other Canadian institutes upon his death.
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Elmer Gantry
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Takes on Evangelical religion and its methods. |
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God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
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Eliot Rosewater is giving away his money (and love and attention) to deserving people... and some maybe not so deserving. This proves he is crazy. Hence the subtitle "Pearls Before Swine." |
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Heart of Darkness
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A tale of philanthropy gone wrong. |
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Hungry Hearts
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"My Own People" is about a young writer who discovers the difference between the 'philanthropy' of the 'friendly visitors' and the generousity of the poor. |
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Jenny Cain Mysteries
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The mystery slueth, Jenny Cain runs a community foundation. |
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Little Women
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Full of charitable scenes, beginning with the girl;s decision to give their Christmas breakfast and presents to the poor. |
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Lydia Sigourney Poems
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Extensively addresses charitable issues. |
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Main Street
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Panorama of associational life in mid-America from the women's side. |
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Moo
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Takes place on a midwest university campus, has a director of development as a character, and characters with research grants and endowment chairs. |
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Old Ironsides
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National fundraising campaign to save a celebrated ship of war. |
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Oliver Twist
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Grim portait of faith-based social services where Oliver was born and brought up. |
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Parson Turrell's Legacy
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The tale of legacy left to Harvard College. |
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Powers of Attorney
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Legal error by an aging partner leads to a large estate falling into the lap of a pet charity. |
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The Chocolate War
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Focuses on teenager Jerry Renault's struggles to refuse selling chocolate bars as part of the traditional annual fundraising effort at a private all-boys Catholic school. |
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The Christmas Carol
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Offers not only its wonderful vignette of charitable fund-raisers being turned away by the hard-hearted Scrooge, but the spectacle of Scrooge's redemption. |
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The Invisible Man
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A rare glipse of philanthropy from the standpoint of its recipients. |
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The Late George Apley
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Contains alot of rich material on elite attitudes and involvements in the city's charitable institutions. |
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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Features a foundation executive and gives intereating insights into the early culture of postwar philanthropoids. |
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The Perfect Gift
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It suggests that we are continually confronted with choices about giving, and offers literary selections intended to help us reflect more seriously on these choices.
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The Perfect Gilt
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The Perfect Gift draws from the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis, Alexis de Tocqueville, and P. G. Wodehouse, among others. |
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The Prison Window
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Explores the tensions between a museum curator and the museum administrator. |
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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account of how capitalism operates in the workplace, but in some ways it is also a very contradictory book. |
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The Visit: a Tragi-Comedy
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A tale of how a revengeful woman wreaks havoc on her former town by offering a very large gift with strings attached. |
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The Wagnerians
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Short story about the political machinations of an elite arts board. |
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The Warden
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A scathing examination of trusts set up in perpetuity. |
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Time Enough For Love
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Story of a genetically superior human strain which uses a variety of nonprofits to advance its interests. |
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War of the Newts
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Set as a science fiction about a new breed of newts that are exploited to work for human. Within the story there is a charity for the protection of newts and an interesting angle on academics. |
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