Shelf Life

Edwin Drechsel '36, Tu'36, draws on his experience working for Standard Oil Co. in his chronicle of Venezuelan and oil industry history, from Venezuela with Love:200 Years of Fascinating History, Literature, Politics, Economy andNature (Creative Arts Book Co.).

Granville Austin '50, historian and leading authority on the Indian constitution, explains the influences on constitutional reforms since 1950 in Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience (Oxford University Press).

Charles: Wheelan '88, a former correspondent for The Economist, explains economics with stories: and examples that are both entertaining and enlightening in NakedEconomics: Undressing the Dismal Science (W.W. Norton).

Joseph Pardee '53 satirizes a young mans coming of age in late 19th-century New England in his first novel, Dame Fortune's Favor: (iUniverse.com).

Richard A. Hogarty '55 lends insight into late 19th-century state politics during the turmoil of industrialization in a biography of working-class advocate and New jersey governor Leon Abbett in Leon Abbett's New Jersey (American Philosophical Society).

Geoffrey Gilbert '70, an economist at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, addresses the complex issues surrounding world population changes in World Population:A ReferenceHandbook (ABC-CLIO).

David Schmahmann '78, a Boston lawyer who was born in Durban, South Africa, has earned the John Gardner Fiction Book Award for Empire Settings (White Pine Press), a story of love between a young white man and a young black woman during South Africa's apartheid era.

Eric Ziolkowski '80 traces the evolving significance of the recurring motif of urchins in Evil Children in Religion, Literature and Art (Palgrave).

Mark C. Henrie '87 edited Doomed Bourgeois inLove: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman (ISI Books) about the political and social implications of Stillman's comedies Metropolitan,Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco.