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John S. Monagan '33 details his life as an athlete, lawyer, musician and congressman in A Pleasant Institution: Key-CMajor (University Press of America).

David Brion Davis '50, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Yale history professor, gathered together essays on the origins, experience and legacy of slavery for In the Image of God: Religion,Moral Values and Our Heritage of Slavery (Yale University Press).

Arden Buoholz '58, history professor at the State University of New York at Brockport, examines the work of the first modern war planner, Helmuth von Moltke, in Moltkeand the German Wan (St. Martins). William Carpenter '62 captures the landscape and tradition of his home state of Maine in The Wooden Nickel:A Move! (Little, Brown and Cos.), about a third-generation Maine lobsterman.

J. Stephen Reid '62, an insurance executive for 38 years, exposes the potential for crime in the world of business insurance in his first novel, Murder Insured (Maxamy).

John Danford '69, a political economist, traces the history of capitalist society from its roots in ancient Greece to the condition of contemporary free societies in Roots to Freedom:A Primer onModern Liberty (ISI Books).

Brian Daly '74 explores lust and betrayal with a collection of 46 poems in Lesbian Trappedin a Man's Body (Black Greyhound Media).

Robert A.J. Gagnon '80, assistant professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, analyzes biblical texts relating to homosexuality in The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Textsand Herrheneutics (Abingdon Press).

P.H. Mullen '91 writes about U.S. swimmers who competed in the 2000 Olympics in Gold in the Water: The True Story of OrdinaryMen and Their Extraordinary Dream ofOlympicGlory (St. Martin's).

Katie E. Sams '91, an international relations researcher, wrote Peacekeeping in Africa: Capabilities and Culpabilities (United Nations) during a research fellowship with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.