Left Bank Books presents Washington University professor Henry I. Schvey, who will sign and discuss his memoir, "The Poison Tree."
This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of "The Poison Tree" from Left Bank Books will be required to enter the signing line.
Growing up in his father’s looming shadow, Henry I. Schvey wondered if he was doomed to make the same mistakes. Would he succumb to the drive for domination and transform his own world into one colored by fear, domestic violence, infidelity, and spousal abuse? His father's success in the Reagan era of dog-eat-dog global finance was paid for with the currency of intimidation, and he wore it with the braggadocio of a man with an outsized ego who didn’t care who he top—including his son.
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