Shelf Life
Reese Schonfeld '53 has been called the "father of 24-hour news" because he founded three all-news networks: CNN and CNN Headline News for Ted Turner and News 12 for Cablevision. He delivers an inside look at the tumultuous launch of CNN in Me and Ted Against theWorld: The Unauthorized Story of theFounding of CNN (Cliff Street).
Bill Fitzhugh '64, chair of the Arctic studies department at the Smithsonian Institution, was awarded the 2001 Society for American Archaeology book award for Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (Smithsonian Institution Press).
Robert B. Reich '68, Brandeis professor and former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, offers an analysis of the New Economy and how it is affecting our lives, for better and for worse, in The Future ofSuccess (Knopf).
Mark Fidler '77 takes on hockey and baseball, poverty and mystery in two children's novels, PondPuckster and Baseball Sleuth (iUniverse.com).
Michah Lemer '77, who teaches computer science at Columbia University, delivers the inside scoop on the latest software technologies in Middleware Networks:Concept, Design andDeployment of Internet Infrastructure (Kluwer Academic Publishers).
Paula Sharp '79 juxtaposes the political with the personal in her fourth novel, I Loved You All (Hyperion), a lyrical, funny and emotional portrait of family life and the American politics of abortion rights.
Jake Tapper '91, Washington correspondent for Salon.com, reveals what really happened in Florida in Down &Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency (Little, Brown). It reads like a classic political thrilleri-fand Tapper swears every word is true.
