Shelf Life
Edward Chalfant '42 chronicles the life of Henry Adams in the final volume of his trilogy, Improvement of the World: The Biography of Henry Adams, His Last Life 1891-1918 (Archon Books).
George Woodwell '50, director of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, assesses the current status of the worlds forests and calls for a redefinition of "the public interest" and a redesign of land-use planning in Forests in a Full World (Yale University Press).
George Liebmann '60 discusses the work of six activists of the past two centuries-Octavia Hill, William GlyhJoanes, Mary Richmond, George William Brown, Mary Parker Follett and Bryan Keith-Lues—in Six Lost Leaders (Lexington Books),
Bill Piper'61 offers up psychological suspense in his novella collection So TrustMe: Four Decades of Love and Deceit (Creative Arts Book).
Susan WeiNer '86 examines the changing representations of teenage girls in France in the wake of the Nazi occupation and in the face of increasing Cold War paranoia in Enfants Terribles:Youth and Femininity in the MassMedia in France, 1945-1968 (Johns Hopkins University Press).
John Merrow '63, host of The Merrow Report, brings to bear his 25 years covering education for NPR and PBS in Choosing Excellence:' Good Enough' SchoolsAre Not Good Enough (Scarecrow Press).
Will Wilkoff '66, pediatrician and the author of Coping With a Picky Eater (Fireside),: tackles that other potential nightmare—the kid who won't sleepin his new book Is My Child Overtired?The Sleep Solution for Raising Happier,Healthier Children (Fireside).
Dinesh D'Souza '83, a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and an immigrant who grew up in Bombay, examines foreign and domestic critiques of America in What's So Great About Amenca (Regnery Publishing).
