Dartmouth Authors
Roy Rowan '41 is the author of The IntuitiveManager (Little, Brown, 1986, $15.95), which stresses the point that the successful business manager at times must have the courage to trust his hunches, even though the computer printouts and boardroom caution may point in another direction. Using the story of Archimedes in his bath, Rowan calls this the "Eureka Factor." His years of experience as writer and editor for Fortune magazine gave him a wide knowledge of how the chief executive officers of the nation's top corporations operate, and he uses the material of interviews and case studies to illustrate his basic theory. Rowan has much to say about intuition itself and how it must not be confused with hope and wishful thinking; also about the importance of right timing in intuitive action. He does not argue that executives should barge ahead recklessly, but advocates that an intuitive flash be the starting point for fresh thinking and a new approach to the decision being made. In a chapter headed "The Enemy of Intuition" Rowan describes the MBA fast-tracker as one. of the major obstacles to creative management, and another, in his estimation, is the trend toward picking the chief financial officer or general counsel as the firm's CEO. He ends with a salute to the future MBI - Master of Business Intuition.
Robert Skutch '46 has written Journey Without Distance (Celestial Arts, 1984, $7.95 paperback), which tells the story behind the creation of A Course in Miracles, a threevolume self-study course designed to help change one's perceptions. The contents of the three volumes were taken down over a seven-year period by Dr. Helen Schueman, a research psychologist, who heard a "voice" dictating the material to her. Skutch is co-founder and director of the Foundation for Inner Peace, which at the time he wrote his background book had published 160,000 sets of A Course in Miracles in 12 printings. The spiritual principles enunciated are similar to those of the New Testament, emphasizing the centrality of love replacing personal fears.
David L. Larson '52 is the editor of The "Cuban Crisis" of 1962 (University Press of America, 1986, $29.75, $22.50 paperback), a reissue of the book published by Houghton Mifflin in 1963. It consists of selected documents, a chronology, and a bibliography. Larson is a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire.
Arthur D. Raybin '58 is the author of Howto Hire the Right Fund Raising Consultant (Taft Group, 1985, $24.95), a how-to book written for the volunteer leaders and staff members of gift-supported organizations that use fund-raising counsel in their campaigns to raise money from private sources. He discusses the role of the consultant, the things to keep in mind in choosing him, the organizing of the campaign staff, and the various methods consultants use in working with and charging clients. Before establishing his own consulting firm 13 years ago, Raybin held administrative posts at Wheaton College, the New School, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. He has assisted more than 100 organizations in fund drives with goals ranging from $1 million to $100 million, from which he has drawn illustrative anecdotes to enliven this very practical book.
James Brewer Stewart '62 is the author of Wendell Phillips: Liberty's Hero (Louisiana State University Press, 1986, $35), a biography of the New England abolitionist. As portrayed by the author, Phillips had great influence in the Boston circle of abolitionists, enhanced by his ability as a public speaker and his willingness to engage in political activity for the achievement of republican social ends. He was a racial egalitarian, a champion of free labor, and one who appreciated the harsh consequences of industrialization. At the same time, he was steeped in upperclass Bostonian traditions that believed liberty to be acquired through self-restraint and social order. The sub-title of the book, as explained by Stewart, suggests the liberation that Phillips personally experienced by adhering to these values. It also suggests Phillips's concept of himself as a heroic republican activist. Stewart, who wrote an earlier book on the abolitionists, is professor of history at Macalester College.
William L. Cleveland '63 is the author of Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and theCampaign for Islamic Nationalism (University of Texas Press, 1985, $19.95), the life story of one of the dominant Muslim political figures in the period between the two world wars. Arslan, one of the most celebrated Arab poets at the turn of the century, became more notable as a Muslim activist and political leader after the defeat and dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. He was opposed to copying the secular nationalism of the West, whose influence he strenuously fought, and agitated instead for the restored independence and cultural integrity of the Arab world. Cleveland presents Arslan as a major thinker and leader of the interwar years but as someone who is largely forgotten today, partly because he was not a winner, partly because his image was tarnished by his ties to Italy and Germany in the late 1930s. Cleveland is associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
Kenneth Sharpe '66, with Morris Blachman and William Leogrande, is editor and contributing author of Security Through Diplomacy in Central America (Pantheon Books, 1986, $12.95 paperback). The book is an outgrowth of a long series of meetings by the 15 authors represented, held out of a desire to contribute to intelligent debate about U.S. foreign policy in Central America. Present policy is depicted as a failure because this country has not learned to accept radical change or to face up to dealing with the left, as it must if security is to be established in the region. In addition to dealing with policy toward, the individual nations of Central America, the authors take up the role of the Soviet Union, the Contadora peace proposal, and Cuba. Sharpe is coauthor of four of the 14 chapters in the book. He is associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College and was visiting scholar at Dartmouth for the 1986 spring and summer terms.
Donald A. Wehrung '67 and Kenneth R. MacCrimmon have written Taking Risks: TheManagement of Uncertainty (The Free Press/ Macmillan, 1986, $25.95), an extensive collection of analyzed data on executive attitudes toward risk that should be of interest to business managers, consultants, and business schools, for which it will undoubtedly serve as a textbook. In the words of the authors, "Taking Risks has three major objectives. First, it develops a framework for understanding risk-taking and uses this framework to determine what we know about managerial risk taking. Second, it presents a Risk Portfolio that you can use to assess your own willingness to take risks. Third, it reports on a comprehensive study of the willingness to take risks of senior business executives." Twelve years of research involving more than 500 top-level executives in the United States and Canada went into the preparation of this 340-page book. Wehrung is associate professor of policy analysis andmanagement sciences, faculty of commerce and business administration, at the University of British Columbia.
Robert W. Dickgiesser '69, with Eric P. Yendall, is the author of King George VI LargeKey Type Stamps of Bermuda, Leeward Islands,Nyasaland (Triad Publications, Weston, Mass., 1985, $70.00). Dickgiesser, noted philatelist and Bermuda King George VI specialist, published in 1980 his BermudaKing George VI High Values: A Guide to theFlaws and Printings, and this new volume expands and revises that work in order to bring all the new information to the collector. In comprehensiveness and detail it would seem to be the definitive work on the subject. The issues of King George VI, issued between 1938 and 1953, have been one of the most fascinating areas of stamp research and collecting, and the large key plate stamps of Bermuda, Leeward Islands and Nyasaland, showing the profile head of the king, have been of special interest. The book is profusely illustrated, showing more than 100 head, frame, and perforation flaws, not exciting to an average reader but intensely interesting to the serious collector. Colors, printing records, and stamp values are other parts of a volume created with scholarly care and prodigious labor. Copies can be obtained from Dickgiesser at Box 475, Derby, Conn. 06418.
William S. Lind '69 is the author of Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Press, 1985, paperback), one of the volumes of Westview Special Studies in Military Affairs. Lind, a civilian who is president of the Military Reform Institute, deals with the combat options of conventional military forces and advocates the achieving of objectives by maneuver rather than the heavy reliance on firepower and attrition so much a part of military training and thinking. The book not only explains the theory of maneuver warfare but makes specific tactical, operational, and organizational recommendations for improving ground combat forces. Lind is military affairs adviser to Senator Gary Hart and a Resident Scholar at the Institute for Government and Politics of the Free Congress Foundation. His ideas have made him a controversial figure in military circles, leading one supportive Marine Corps colonel (retired) to state in the book's foreword that although Lind is a civilian who has never been shot at, there are some senior officers who would like to take care of that deficiency.
Bruce A. Kimball '73 is the author of Oratorsand Philosophers: A History of the Idea of LiberalEducation (Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1986, $19.95). No words are heard more often in the educational world than "liberal arts" and "liberal education"; yet no one really understands what they mean. Kimball takes on the formidable task of tracing the history of the idea of liberal education, and makes the basic point that there have been two schools of thought about it: the tradition of the philosophers, represented by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and the tradition of the orators, represented by Cicero, Isocrates, and Quintilian. The former, with its belief in complete freedom of inquiry and knowledge for its own sake, prevails today over the oratorical tradition, with its belief in the value of man's store of classic thought and knowledge and its transmittal in communities of learning. Kimball asserts that understanding liberal education is skewed today because it is too one-sidedly based on the philosophical tradition. By his thorough delving into the backgrounds of both streams of thought he seeks to put "liberal education" in sounder historical perspective and make clearer an understanding of what it really is. A number of references to Dartmouth are in the book. The author is assistant professor of education at the University of Rochester and Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School.
Cheryl Newman '76 and Lisa Stelck are authors of The Working Relationship: Management Strategies for Contemporary Couples (Villard Books, 1986, $12.95 paperback). What they propose is built upon the Summit Concept, an annual weekend "summit meeting" at which the couple review the state of their partnership and adopt a management plan for keeping it alive and well. "For most couples today, love is simply not enough to maintain a healthy, stable relationship," the authors state. In presenting answers they draw an analogy between a business enterprise and a personal partnership. Their own success with the summit process and management planning led them to share their experiences with others. After discussing the challenges faced by contemporary couples, particularly when both work, and then outlining the summit process in detail, the book devotes more than half of its contents to guidelines and worksheets for both partners, covering such topics as jobs, family, leisure, love, home responsibilities, money, health, travel, and friends. Both Newman and Stelck acquired their faith in management principles as graduate students at Stanford Business School.
Michael Mosher '77 has done the illustrations for Orwell for Beginners (Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., 1984, paperback $4.95), one of the Beginner Series books that bring words and images together to introduce readers to some of the major thinkers and ideas of our time. The treatment is humorous yet authentic, and Mosher's illustrations something on every one of the book's 191 pages-offer a little bit of everything from his own drawings to montages and photos. Mosher, who took his Dartmouth degree in art with honors, is based in San Francisco, where he has done a number of community murals in additon to his other artwork and illustrating.
Valerie Steele '78 is the author of Fashionand Eroticism: Ideals, of Feminine Beauty fromthe Victorian Era to the Jazz Age (Oxford University Press, 1985, $24.95). The author, a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, explored the fashion archives in America, England, France, and Japan to build the foundation of her psychoanalytical theory that fashion is essentially erotic. The two major contentions of the book are that, contrary to long-held belief, Victorian women were not prudish and strait-laced but were well aware of the erotic power of their clothes; and secondly, that the more modern look of sexy, healthy beauty is not a reform movement or reaction to the Victorians, but evolved from within the pre-war world of fashion and is a natural progresion from earlier modes and ideas. One of the more interesting claims made by Ms. Steele is that the enemies of the corset were primarily socially conservative and sexually puritanical males and not the tight-laced women who liked the corset as a form of sexual expression and female assertion. Women's lingerie comes in for its share of attention, but this of course is a more obvious aspect of fashion and eroticism. The book concludes with a chapter on the antifashion thinking of the modern feminist movement, but looking sexually attractive continues to be desirable and fashion and feminism are not seen as incompatible.
Faculty
Wayne G. Broehl Jr., Benjamin Ames Kimball Professor of Administration at Tuck School, is the author of Crisis of the Raj: TheRevolt of 1857 through British Lieutenants' Eyes (University Press of New England, 1986, $24.95). In May of 1857, Indian soldiers in the British army mutinied in the outpost of Meerut and started an uprising that spread throughout northern and central India and took nearly two years to quell. Professor Broehl, while in India doing research for an earlier book, came into possession of letters written by four young British lieutenants telling the story of the battles fought to defend the empire, and he has combined these letters with historical background to give a graphic account of the bloody rebellion. Many of the letters were written on the battlefield within hours of the fighting. Broehl is interested not only in the main story but also in the attitudes of the four lieutenants, who represented the thinking of the British people. In a final chapter he considers each officer individually and analyzes how his personal traits affected his subsequent life history. One of the lieutenants, Frederick Roberts, rose to become commander-in-chief of British forces in India. Broehl's previous book about India was The Village Entrepreneur (1978).
Robert H. Guest, Professor of Organizational Behavior Emeritus, Tuck School, has joined with Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard to produce a new edition of Organizational Change through Effective Leadership (Prentice-Hall, 1986, $18.95 paperback). This edition adds a new case, the Plant Z story, to the Plant Y case featured in the original study of leadership and change. It focuses on the worker as well as management and illustrates how a dramatic turnaround can be generated by worker participation and involvement in the decision-making process. In managing change, the authors emphasize, executives need to recognize "the most valuable resource of aLL -the people who spend the greater part of their working hours making their organizations work."
