Dartmouth Authors

Patten D. Allen '26, ed. Echoes: 500 Thoughtsfor Today from American Revolutionary Personalities. Crescent, Los Angeles. 85 pp. $2. Allen has arranged by subject 500 short quotations from writings of the Founding Fathers on such themes as the Revolution, the Constitution, independence, human rights, and citizenship. His aim is to bring "into the reader's orbit of familiarity . . . their own words echoing across the chasm of 200 years, often relating to current concerns." Since some rather less familiar passages from letters and diaries of famous spokesmen for the Revolution are included, the book well may, as the editor hopes, enhance a "sense of participation in the Bicentennial."

Kenneth Andler '26. Mission to Fort No. 4. Regional Center for Educational Training, Hanover. Illustrated. 64 pp. Hard cover, $4.95; paper, $1.95. A book for children hearing the logos of the national, the New Hampshire, and the Vermont Bicentennial Committees, Mission recounts the adventures of a 15-year-old boy as he and his Uncle Samuel walk the Province Road from Bedford to Charlestown, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1775. The book relies on authenticity of detail. The main characters are fictional, but the story reflects Andler's intimate familiarity with actual New Hampshire history, geography, personages, and events.

Ronald H. Chilcote '57 and Joel Edelstein, coeds. Latin America: The Struggle withDependency and Beyond. Schenkman. 781 pp. Hard cover $24.75; paper, 9.50. A coherent group of essays, each by a scholar-specialist, on such related themes as underdevelopment, economic exploitation, poverty, and social and political change in Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Cuba. The volume is part of a series on "States and Societies of the Third World," and the editors contribute an 87-page introduction tracing the post-1960 economic history of the Third World nations of Latin America and concluding that in the future Latin America will show the United States "a variety of alternatives to our present structure and institutions."