Steven Cassedy
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Steven Cassedy

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Steven Cassedy grew up in Great Neck, NY. An accomplished classical pianist, he attended The Juilliard School, Pre-College Division, in high school. He received his BA in comparative literature at the University of Michigan and his PhD in comparative literature at Princeton. He joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, in 1980 and retired in 2018 as Distinguished Professor of Literature and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division. His scholarly interests have ranged widely, from French, German, Russian, and Yiddish literature, to philosophy, religion, history of science, music, and American cultural studies. In San Diego, he frequently appeared on stage as lecturer and performing musician. He is the author of six previous books, including To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America (Princeton, 1997), Dostoevsky’s Religion (Stanford, 2005), and Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Stanford, 2014), which won a gold medal in US history at the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), 2014. He and his wife Patrice, a playwright, live in Riverdale, Bronx, close to their children, their children’s spouses, and their three grandchildren.
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    • How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
    • By: Steven Cassedy
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-15
    • Language: English
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