Shelf Life

Peter Bridges '53 profiles U.S. diplomat, journalist and Confederate officer John Moncure Daniel in his second work, Pen of Fire (Kent State University Press).

Thomas Dunham '52 tells the tale of a young American pilot surviving during the Belgian Congo's struggle for independence in 1960 in The CongoChronicles: A Pilot's Memoir (Ist Books Library).

Melvin Small '60 examines the 1960s antiwar movement in Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Struggle for America's Heartsand Minds (Scholarly Resources).

Thomas R. McBurney '60, Tu'62, compares the lives, times and works of Michelangelo, Beethoven and Monet in Artistic Greatness (Galde Press).

W. Boyd Barrick '68 reviews Josiah's reign in biblical Israel in TheKingand The Cemeteries: Toward a New Understanding of Josiah's Reform (Brill).

Alice Keefe Waligore '80 reviews the violence in Israelite society as described by the prophet Hosea in the Old Testament in Woman's Body and the Social Body inHosea 1-2 (Sheffield Academic Press).

Stephen Ryan '81 analyzes financial reporting regulations in Financial Instruments and Institutions: Accounting andDisclosure Rules (John Wiley & Sons).

Grant Reeher '82 argues that the Internet has enormous potential to build political communities in Click onDemocracy: The Internet's Power to ChangePolitical Apathy into Civic Action (Westview Press).

Richard Babcdck '69 toucheson ideas of justice and loyaltybut writes primarily about distant fathers and the never-ending influence they have on theirsons in his second novel, Bow'sBoy (Scribner).

Demetrius Eudell '89 compares the emancipation process in the British Caribbean and in the United States in The PoliticalLanguages of Emancipation in the BritishCaribbean and the U.S. South (University of North Carolina Press).