DARTMOUTH AUTHORS

Laurence F. Brooks '37 and W. Warren Babson, As They May Need: A History of the Addison Gilbert Hospital (Phoenix)—Insights into American medicine as practiced from colonial days onward are woven into this history of one Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Community hospital. Brooks is a former fundraiser for Tabor Academy and director of development at Addison General Hospital.

John G. Gammie '50, Holiness in Israel (Augsburg) Gammie, the Emma A. Harwell Professor of Biblical Literature at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, analyzes changing conceptions of holiness in the Old Testament and various ancient Judaic texts.

David Jablonsky '6O, The Nazi Partyin Dissolution: Hitler and the Verbotzeit1923-25 (Frank Cass) This analysis shows how the Verbotzeit, the period from November 1923 to February 1925 when the Nazi party was banned in Germany and right-wing movements were struggling for ideological and political ground, prepared the way for Hitler's rise to power. Jablonsky, director of military strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, holds a Ph.D. in European history from Kansas University.

Mary Ellen Donovan '76 and William P. Ryan, Love Blocks: Breaking thePatterns that Undermine Relationships (Viking)—The authors define a "love block" as "a deeply ingrained psychoogical pattern that prevents us from being able to experience ourselves as loved and valued." Through numerous case studies, they show how such love blocks as "I Don't Deserve Love," "I'll Inevitably Get Hurt," and "Anger Keeps Getting in the Way" affect people's relationshipsand how these hindrances can be overcome. New York-based Donovan writes frequently about psychology and women's issues.

Walter Arndt, translator, The Best ofRilke (University Press of New England) Dartmouth's Sherman Fairchild Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Emeritus, Arndt has preserved the meter, rhyme scheme, and semantics of Rainer Maria Rilke's German poems. Yale Professor Cyrus Hamlin writes in the book's foreword: "The spirit of Rilke as poet, his manner, his quality, his style, come across through Arndt with an authenticity and an immediacy that can only be achieved by a master translator on the basis of a lifetime of service to this essential, if always frustrating cause."

Jeffrey Hart, Acts of Recovery: Essayson Culture and Politics (University Press of New England) Hart, professor of English at Dartmouth, takes time out from writing for the the National Review and other publications, to reflect on such topics as "The Wasp Gentleman as Cultural Ideal," "Bloomsday," "What the Hell Was Socialism?" and "Johnson, Boswell, and Modernity."

Marianne Hirsch, The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanaly sis, Feminism (Indiana University Press) Hirsch, professor of French and chair of comparative literature at Dartmouth, analyzes the portrayal of mothers and daughters in the myths and literature of Western civilization. Drawing on theory from psychology, literary criticism, and feminism, and discussing authors from Jane Austen to Alice Walker, she shows the emergence of motherhood—a central theme of women's lives—from obscurity in nineteenth century novels to a presence in post-Freudia'n modern narratives.

William C. Spengemann, A Mirrorfor Americanists: Reflections on the Ideaof American Literature (University Press of New England) Dartmouth English professor Spengemann answers his own question, "What is American literature?" He ponders the definition and parameters of literary categories and questions why literature written by Americans should be separated from non-American literature written in English. Included are discussions of the earliest American novel and Henry James's The American.