Dartmouth Authors
Thomas R.Vale, ed.,"Progress Against Growth: Daniel B. Luten on the American Landscape" (The Guilford Press) Vale has compiled writings by geogra pher and environmental activist DANIEL B. LUTEN '29 on such diverse topics as "Uneasy Chair: Ostriches, Population Growth, and Wilderness Sentimentality," "The Use and Misuse of a River," and "The Ethics of Biotic Diversity and Extinction: From Pleistocene to Aldo Leopold and a Step Beyond." Luten influenced many environmentalists through his teaching at Berkeley and his work for the Sierra Club.
JOHN S. MONAGAN '33, "The Grand Panjandrum: The Mellow Years of Justice Holmes" (University Press of America) This book, which reveals the personal side of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., will interest lawyers, legal scholars, historians, and the general reader. Monagan is a retired member of the U.S. Congress.
JOHN S. MONAGAN '33, "Horace: Priest of the Poor" (Georgetown University Press) Monagan documents the life of Jesuit priest Horace McKenna, who relentlessly worked to better conditions for rural and urban blacks and the homeless.
EDWIN DRECHSEL '36, "1886-1986: A Century of German Ship Posts" (The Pall Mall Stamp Co. Ltd.) Philatelists, maritime buffs, and lovers of exotica will delight in this illustrated and annotated round-the-world look at cancellation marks used by German ship board post offices.
MERRILL MCLANE '42, "Proud Out casts: The Gypsies of Spain" (Carderock Press) Cultural anthropologist McLane spent ten years studying the elusive gypsies of the caves in Spain's Granada province. His account, rich in details of gypsy life and describing McLane's research experiences, has been called a scholarly adventure story.
NICK KOTZ '55, "Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber" (Pantheon) Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Kotz explodes the B-1 and the workings of the military industrial complex. David Halberstam says of this book: "On the surface it is merely the sad story of the struggle over the B-1 bomber. But it is also an exceptionally well-told, understated story of how the system works, and how the military lobbies for projects that do not necessarily improve the nation's defense." It's a subject that's in the news.
ROBERT WOOL '55 with Touche Ross, "Tax Smart: the Touche Ross Guide to Total Tax Strategy for 1988" (Delacorte Press) Wool, coauthor of numerous books on taxes and financial planning and a former editor of the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, and New York magazine, wrote this comprehensive guide to dealing with the new tax laws. Much of the advice will be useful well past 1988.
MICHAEL MOONEY '61, "Ancient Voices and Other Stories" (Main Street) In nine stories Mooney creates the modern-day world of Zak Andreas, who is "ambitious, vital, and always operating on the edge of the law." Milwaukee based Mooney holds a doctorate in medieval literature from Edinburgh University.
JOHN UHLMANN '66 and Peggy Heinrich, "The Soul of Fire: How Charcoal Changed the World" (Exposition/ University Books, Inc.) When Uhlmann ran the Uhlmann Company's charcoal division (he's now president of the firm), he didn't just write corporate reports. He wrote a book that details everything there is to know about the history and uses of charcoal. Surprising information includes "How gunpowder exploded feudal structures and led to democracy" and "Why England really valued the American colonies."
ROBERT E. FRENCH '74, "The Geometry of Vision and the Mind Body Problem" (Peter Lang) Central Michigan University philosophy professor French presents his highly technical study of the philosophy of perception, demonstrating that the conscious mind is a spatial entity.
HENRY WILLIAMS, "Theatre at Dartmouth, 1769-1914" (The Friends of the Dartmouth Library) This detailed and illustrated account is the authoritative source on Dartmouth theatre. Director and drama professor Williams tells all from the days of John Ledyard's dramatic entrance into Hanover to the opening of Robinson Hall theatre in 1914. Maurice Rapf's introduction does the same for Williams's 41-year career at the College, from 1931 to 1972.
Stratis Myrivilis, "Life in the Tomb" (University Press of New England), translated by PETER BIEN Myrivilis's piercing story of life at the front in Serbian Macedonia in 1917 has been rendered into "crystalline English" by Dartmouth English professor Peter Bien. C.M. Woodhouse of the Times Literary Supplement says Bien "has turned a Greek masterpiece into something not much less than an English one."
