Required Reading
Nixon Gets Small Treatment
Melvin Small '60 makes it easy to follow such drawn-out issues as welfare reform, the Vietnam War and detente from beginning to end in his The Presidency ofRichard Nixon (University Press of Kansas). In this addition to The American Presidency Series, Small examines Nixon's questionable policies in Pakistan, Chile, the Middle East and Vietnam, as well as his more laudable actions in China and the Soviet Union. Fresh insights into Nixon's role in the desegregation of Southern schools, women's rights and environmental initiatives broaden the analysis. Fans of C-SPAN's related The American Presidency Series can find out more about Nixon, as well as Small's research, byvisiting www.americanpresidency.org.
-Courtney Cook Williamson '93
Check out these other titles by alumni:
Bloodlines (The Permanent Press), the sixth novel by Bruce Ducker '60, is the story of a young American jazz pianist stranded in Switzerland who discovers he may be the beneficiary of accounts and art dating back to the Holocaust.
Artistic Greatness, A Comparative Exploration of Michelangelo,Beethoven and Monet (Gaide Press), by Thomas McBurney '60, TU '62.
Lucy Crocker 2.0 (Scribner), a novel by Caroline Preston '75, involves the comic and not-so-comic effects of technology on life and love. Herfirst novel Jackie byJosie, was a 1997 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts: Reflections of a Hospital Chaplain (Haworth Pastoral Press), a collection of essays by Gretchen Werschkul TenBrook '94.
