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DARTMOUTH AUTHORS

NOVEMBER 1988 Karen Endicott
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DARTMOUTH AUTHORS
NOVEMBER 1988 Karen Endicott

William N. Fenton '30, The False Faces of the Iroquois (University of Oklahoma Press)-Fenton, distinguished professor of anthropology emeritus at the State University of New York, Albany, has written what anthropologists and curators are calling the definitive book about the Society of Faces of the Iroquois. The book, which follows the lives of ten present-day mask carvers, examines the masks, myths, rituals, and beliefs associated with the society.

Paul Nelson '56, The Hard Shapes ofParadise (University of Alabama Press)-New Hampshire and Maine feature in some of the poems in this collection. Nelson is an English professor and the director of the creative writing program at Ohio University.

Martin Anderson '57, Revolution (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)-This insider's account of the Reagan years admiringly views the president's "policy revolutions," and concludes that the scandals of the Reagan White House, including the IranContra affair, which he calls "a dangerous witches' brew," will be minimized in history's gaze. Anderson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, discusses the secrecy surrounding Iran-Contra and why Reagan fired him from the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

Albert H. Cantril '62, Psychology,Humanisin and Scientific Inquiry: TheSelected Essays of Hadley Cantril (Transaction Books)-Hadley Can-tril '28 taught in Dartmouth's sociology department in the early 1930s and, according to son Albert Cantril, was mentor to two of the College's psychology professors, Albert Has torf and William Smith. The senior Cantril coined the phrase "humanistic psychology," the conjunction of psychology and the kinds of questions about self and experience that are tackled by philosophers, poets, and theologians. This book includes essays on scientific inquiry, scientific morality, and transaction in psychology and neurology. Albert Cantril is president of the Bureau of Social Science Research in Washington, D.C.

John F. Wilson and Donald L. Drakeman '75, Church and, State inAmerican History (Second Edition; Beacon Press)-This book documents the history of church-state issues, from Massachusetts Bay's Reverend John Cotton's "Discourse about Civil Government" to U.C. Berkeley's sociology professor Robert Berkeley's views on "Civil Religion in America." Drakeman is corporate vice president of Essex Chemical Corporation of Clifton, New Jersey.

Kenneth E. Shewmaker and Kenneth R.Stevens, eds., and Alan R.

Berolzheimer '79, asst. ed., ThePapers of Daniel Webster: DiplomaticPapers, Volume 2, 1850-1852 (University Press of New England) Daniel Webster's papers have been compiled into 15 massive volumes, all published for Dartmouth by UPNE. History professor Shewmaker edited Volume 1 and co-edited Volume 2, which together cover Webster's tenure as secretary of state under Presidents Tyler and Fillmore. Berolzheimer also served as assistant editor of The Papers of Daniel Webster:Speeches and Formal Writings. Editorin-chief for the entire project ThePapers of Daniel Webster is CharlesM. Wiltse, professor emeritus of history at the College. The project, which has taken 20 years, will end with the publication next year of, a cumulative index.

Serge Hambourg, photographer, Mills and Factories of New England (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Hood Museum of Art)-Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Dartmouth's Hood Museum, this book of striking photographs of New England's industrial heritage includes a foreword by museum director Jacquelynn Baas and essays by English Professor Noel Perrin and Kenneth Breish, an architectural historian who also wrote the photo captions.