DARTMOUTH AUTHORS
Lawrence Treat '24, Crime and Puzzlement 3 (David R. Godine ) A fun puzzle and picture book that pits thereader against the sleuthing of detective Julius Quackery in a collection of wacky crimes and even wackier characters.
Larry Martz '54 with Ginny Carroll, Ministry of Greed: The Inside Story ofthe Televangelists and Their Holy Wars ( Weidenfeld & Nicholson) The story of " Gospelgate" the Jim and Tammy Faye "God wants his people to go first class" Bakker spectacle is recounted by Newsweek senior editor Martz and Detroit Bureau Chief Carroll. With journalistic clarity and perspective they take us from the "Rich Veins of Sleaze" through "The Cuckoo's Chick" to "Tribulation in the End Time."
Richard W. Wright '61 and Gunter A. Pauli , The Second Wave: Japan'sGlobal Assault on Financial Services (St. Martin's Press) Wright and Pauli say that Japanese economic might is reaching beyond manufacturing supremacy to the very heart of world and American finance. They write:"All the signs are unmistakably there: a massive cash war-chest flush with funds from a trade surplus which dwarfs even OPEC in its heyday, a government committed to expanding the domestic market, and a disciplined, educated population devotedto hard work and self-sacrifice to an extent unrivalled in the West." In terms clear to the layman as well as the financial expert, the authors document Japan's strategy for inancialpremiership and tell what America can do about about it. Wright is a professor of international business and finance at McGill University.
Roger L. Simon '64, Raising theDead ( Villard Books) Detective Moses Wine investigates the terrorist murder of an Arab leader in this crime story that moves between Los Angeles and Israel. Kirkus Reviews calls the novel "sensitive, deep and funny." California-based Simon is also a screenwriter and president of the International Association of Crime Writers.
Allen V. Koop '65, Stark Decency:German Prisoners of War in a NewEngland Village (University Press of New England) During World War II more than 400,000 prisoners of war were incarcerated in the United States, including at Camp Stark in northern New Hampshire. Koop, a professor in the department of social sciences at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire, documents the rugged yet comparatively compassionate life at the Stark stockade. Koop interviewed former guards, prisoners, and villagers for this book, which presents Camp Stark as "an island of decency in a world of war." German Consul General Hartmut Lang says, "This book adds evidential material to the widely held belief in Germany that being a prisoner of war in the United States beim Ami, as the Germans used to phrase it with affectionate respect amounted to escaping from carnage and iniquity to safety and decency."
Paula Sharp '79, The Woman WhoWas Not All There (Harper & Row) Sharp's first novel, about a divorced working woman and her children and friends in Durham, North Carolina, captures small-town southern life in the 1960s and 1970s. Harper & Row says, "Paula Sharp has a voice like no one else's lyrical, mocking, humorous." Sharp won the New JerseyState Council on the Arts Award for Fiction in 1987. A graduate of Columbia University Law School, she is a public defender in Manhattan,
