Dartmouth Authors
Courtney C. Brown '26. Putting the Corporate Board to Work. Macmillan, 1976. 159 pp. $10.95. "Members of governing boards have a prestigious status in society - more prestigious than the present nature of their activities can support" because such boards as now conceived and constituted are ambiguous and often ineffective governing instruments. From this premise Brown, dean emeritus and emeritus professor at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University, argues for several fundamental reforms in boards of directors of modern corporations. Brown challenges the accepted corporate wisdom of one-man rule, positing instead the necessity for a rigorous theoretical distinction between operation and management.
Richard N. Campen '34. Our villages... OurValley: An Illustrated Story of the ChagrinValley. West Summit Press, Chagrin Falls (Ohio), 1976. Softcover. $7.95. Campen is his own writer, photographer, book designer, and publisher, and he is a recognized authority on the architecture of the Western Reserve as well. This book demonstrates all these things. Perhaps more important, it also manifestly demonstrates his deep affection for that historically rich and uncommonly beautiful corner of northeastern Ohio that Campen lives in, the Chagrin Valley. This area is not entirely the urban blight and the massively polluted Cuyahoga River at Cleveland (reputed in local lore to be the only inflammable river in the country); it is also the Western Reserve, that bit of transplanted and transmuted New England, its valleys, and villages. Sixteen color plates and 100 photographs.
Wilton S. Sogg '56, Myron G. Hill Jr., and Howard M. Rossen. Constitutional Law. Smith's Review, Legal Gem Series; West Publishing, 1976. 320 pp. A modern up-dating of a treatise on Constitutional law which features an outline of the subject matter and selected Constitutional Law questions from the multistate bar examination. Mahlon Apgar IV '62, ed. New Perspectiveson Community Development. McGraw-Hill, 1976. 363 pp. Essays by experts in Britain, France, and the U. S. on such subjects as urban policy at the national and regional level, the strategic planning and development of specific kinds of urban areas, and the management of the planning process. A working guide to the practitioner in virtually all phases of urban planning, the book also proposes policy and organizational innovations for the future course of community development in the Western world.
Franklin O. Loveland '64, co-editor. FrontierAdaptations in Lower Central America. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1976. 178 pp. $14.95. Lying between the high-culture areas of Mexico to the north and the Central Andes to the south and largely untouched by the Spanish conquest, Lower Central America has remained a primitive frontier even to this day and, therefore, immensely attractive to cultural anthropologists. Since modern civilization has begun to intrude even there, however, anthropologists have hastened to study the customs, structure, and cosmology of the tribes in this area while there is still something to study. This book brings together, along with the editors' analyses, ten recent studies on one of the few remaining frontiers on our late-20th century globe.
Frederick F. Schauer '67. The Law ofObscenity. Bureau of National Affairs, Washington, 1976. 459 pp. $19.50. The first book in the field of obscenity law designed primarily for the legal profession. Neither historical nor sociological, it is designed "to meet the same kinds of needs as a treatise in any other legal area." Professer Schauer does not argue why or whether there should be obscenity laws; he treats their existence as a given and goes on to analyze the substantive concepts of obscenity law, state and federal regulations and statutes, and procedural contexts involved in litigation.
