Shelf Life
Kenneth Roman '52, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, has updated a third edition of his comprehensive handbook, How to Advertise (St. Martins Press).
Ross Sandler '61, a law professor and director of New York Law School's Center for New York City Law, explains how courts have taken power from elected officials and given it to unelected bodies to run key social programs in Democracy ByDecree: What Happens When Courts RimGovernment (Yale University Press).
Ross Burkhardt '62, former president of the National Middle School Association and a National Teachers Hall of Fame inductee, offers strategies to get students to love writing in his teachers' manual, Writingfor Real (Stenhouse Publishers).
Jack Kornfield '67, psychotherapist and Buddhist monk, offers quotations and his own meditations in The Art of Forgiveness,Loving kindness and Peace (Bantamdell).
William Jaspersohn '69 tells the true story of a band of mutinous pirates that came ashore at a Rhode Island farm left under the care of a boy in his latest children's book, The Scrimshaw Ring (Vermont Folklife Center).
Carl Little '76 adds to his collection of books on Maine art with The Art of Mainein Winter (Down East Books), featuring 93 paintings by 75 American painters.
Stephen Farnsworth '83 discusses in his new coauthored work, The Nightly NewsNightmare: Network Television's Coverage ofthe U.S. Presidential Elections (Rowman & Littlefield), the decline of broadcast news' accuracy, balance and quality in its coverage of the last four presidential races.
