Shelf Life
Edward Marks '32 brings together therich variety of posters that have illustrated the United Nations' initiatives inFor a Better World: Posters from the UnitedNations (Pomegranate). Marks, whospent 40 years in international servicewith the U.N. and U.S. governmentalagencies, authored A World of Art: TheUnited Nations Collection in 1996.
Julia Hunter' 79 profilesoutdoors advocateCornelia Crosby in FlyRod Crosby: The WomanWho Marketed Maine(Tilbury House/MaineState Museum).
Russell Fraser'47, emeritus professor ofEnglish at the University of Michigan,celebrates five centuries of verse inSinging Masters: Poets in English, 1500 to thePresent (University of Michigan Press).
Frank Gilroy '50 has published two volumes of his collected plays: Volume I:Complete Full-Length Plays, 1962-1999 andVolume II: 15 One-Act Plays (Smith andKraus). The playwright, screenwriterand independent filmmaker earned aPulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for TheSubject Was Roses (featured in Volume I).
Eric Cline '82 recounts the military history of Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley in Israel—more than 34 battles during the past 4,000 years—in The Battles of Armageddon (University of Michigan Press).
Arthur Bloom '61 profiles the foremost comic actor of 19th-century American theater in Joseph Jefferson:Dean of the American Theatre (Frederic C. Beil). Bloom, retiring this year as dean of visual and performing arts at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, plans to write a biography of 19th-century tragic actor Edwin Booth.
Jeffrey E. Garten '68, dean of the Yale School of Management, meets one-on-one with the worlds business leaders in The Mind of the CEO (Perseus). He reveals what drives Compaq's Michael Dell, where financier George Soros draws the line and what keeps General Electric CEO Jack Welch up at night.
