What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working...

"At the turn of the 20th century, a young Jewish immigrant living in the North End of Boston yearns to be a College Man, no matter the cost. Five decades later, his grandson embarks on his own college education and comes face-to-face with the unexpected secrets of his long-dead grandfather. Through dual narratives across time, Levinson Of Harvard traces the parallel stories of grandfather and grandson, as each grapples with misguided aspirations,...