Shelf Life

Richard Jackson '39 follows a 32-year-old mayor trying to keep order amid race riots during the late '6os in the novel The Boyajian Papers (Onota Collections). Peter Flindell Klaren '60, George Washington University history professor, outlines the history of Peru in Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes (Oxford University Press).

Morton Kqndracke '60 chronicles his transformation from careerist to caregiver and disease activist in Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease (Public Affairs). Co-host of the Fox political show Beltway Boys and Roll Call newspaper columnist, Kondracke has also become an outspoken advocate for Parkinsons research since his wife, Milly, was diagnosed with the disease in 1987.

Victoria Redel '80 explores what happens if a mother loves her child too much in Loverboy (Graywolf Press). Redel, who earned the S. Mariella Gable Prize for Loverboy, her first novel, teaches writing at Vermont College and Sarah Lawrence College.

Karin Aiejandra Rosemblatt '86, assistant history professor at Syracuse University, presents a history of Chilean gender politics in Gendered Compromises: PoliticalCultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 (University of North Carolina Press).

Mark Henrie '87 champions traditional studies in Western civilization Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum (Intercollegiate Studies Institute). Leonard Chang '91 follows a man looking into the details of his fathers death 20 years ago in the crime novel Over theShoulder (Ecco Press/HarperCollins).

Kate Cohen '92 advocates mindfulness in every aspect of a wedding in A Walk Down the Aisle: Notes on aModern Wedding (W.W. Norton & Cos.- Her book of observations from her own wedding (to

Adam Greenberg'89) and her personal journals is an attempt to help others "make sense of the big questions through the details of everyday life," she says.