My Antonia by Willa Cather
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• Welcome and Introduction
• Leaders, Small People Matter
• The Literary Life of Willa Cather
• Cather’s Sense of Place and Nostalgia
• Leaders, it’s Okay to be Private in a Public World
• Rescuing Eve from the Snake in Eden
• The Biblical Nature of Jim and Antonia’s Relationship
• Leaders Rescue Their Followers From the Snakes in the Garden
• Patriarchy at the Edge of Modernism
• Jim, Grandfather, Jake, Otto, and the Coming of the Lost Generation
• Leaders, We Still Need the Patriarchy
• Descending from Paradise into History
• Genesis 13:12 and Genesis 19:15
• Leaders, Watch Out for the Descent into History
• Staying on the Leadership Path with My Antonia

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Music: Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor, L. 140, recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see https://www.gardnermuseum.org.

Closing theme composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music.

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