Dartmouth Authors
Robert E. Pike '25. Drama on theConnecticut. H-H Press. 200 pp. 64 photographs. $12. Events on both sides of the river, from Canada to the Massachusetts line. Here are a man buried alive and the last woman hanged in Vermont who was three times reprieved, hanged twice, and became pregnant while locked up in solitary. Windsor prison may boast or keep quiet about strange doings inside its grim walls. Unbelievable is a murder in the river. There are pages about buried treasure, a chapter on the lure and lore of covered bridges, and one on the Dartmouth spirit.
John D. Ferdico '65. Criminal Procedure forthe Law Enforcement Officer, West Publishing Company. The assistant Attorney General and Director of Law Enforcement Education for the State of Maine attempts to reduce the complexity of the laws of criminal procedure into straightforward and simple advice illustrated by actual cases. He has concentrated heavily on the facts and reasonings of major decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Guidelines are offered about arrests, searches and seizures, and interrogations.
Mark E. Nackman '65. A Nation Within aNation: The Rise of Texas Nationalism. Kennikat Press. 183 pp. $12.50. Texans elicit powerful adjectives: lawless, bold, resourceful, extravagant, ambitious, ruthless, adventuresome, hotheaded, unmannered, illiterate, uncivilized, and nationalistic. John Steinbeck called Texas a state of mind, an obsession, a nation in every sense of the word. In tracing and adjudicating Texan history from 1821 to 1861, Nackman evaluates the background and character of her settlers, concentrating on Sam Houston, Stephen Austin, Mirabeau Lamar, and Thomas Rusk, and also attempts to give some perspective on political, economic, and social developments in 19th-century America.
Guyon H. Knight III '69 and Harold T. Redding. The Dun & Bradstreet Handbook ofCredits and Collections, Crowell, $20. Dun & Bradstreet evaluates years more than three million businesses, interviews millions of businessmen, and records their opinions. This enormous mass of material, refined and ordered, forms the heart of this book. In addition, the advice and opinions of credit executives have been analyzed to arrive at the solution of credit problems.
