Books

Shelflife

Nov/Dec 2006
Books
Shelflife
Nov/Dec 2006

NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Ted Ellsworth '40, an American who joined the British army, wrote in 1945 about his years of military service in Yank: Memoir of aWorld War II Soldier, 1941-1945 (published posthumously by Thunders Mouth Press).

Philip Clark '60 tells an oldfashioned love story set in 1950s Dartmouth in his first novel, The Ivy Gauntlet (Authorhouse).

Bill Pieper '61 deals with the conflicts, compromises and rewards that accompany life in a small, rural mountain community in his third novel, Belonging (Comstock Bonanza Press).

Peter Golenbock '67, a sports author whose work has appeared in TheNewYork Times and The Boston Globe, offers a collection of interviews about the Dallas Cowboys during its expansion years under head coach Tom Landry in Landry's Boys:An Oral History of aTeam and an Era (Triumph Books).

Douglas Noll '73, a lawyer in Clovis, California, challenges office taboos in Sex, Politics &Religion at the Cffice: The New Competitive Advantage (Auberry Press).

Alison Frankel '85, a leading legal journalist and senior writer at The AmericanLawyer, chronicles the history of a rare 1933 $20 coin in Double Eagle: The Epic Story ofthe Wovld'sMost Valuable Coin (WW. Norton).

Richard Brynteson '77, a Concordia University associate professor of management, views various aspects of life through the lens of complex systems in Once Upon a ComplexTime: Using Stories to Understand Systems (Sparrow Media).

Stuart E. Lucas '81, a fourth-generation heirto the Carnation fortune and experienced wealth management advisor, reveals all the secrets and essential components of wealth management in WealtivGrow It, Protect It, SpendIt and Share It (Wharton School Publishing).

Scott Smith '87, in the first novel since his best-selling A Simple Plan, follows two American couples on a holiday in Mexico that goes horrifically wrong in The Ruins (Knopf).

James Panero '98 and Stefan Beck '04 follow the history of The Dartmouth Review and study the publications influence on Dartmouth in The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent: Twenty-Five Years of Being Threatened,Impugned, Vandalized, Sued, Suspended and Bitten at the Ivy League's Most Controversial Conservative Newspaper (Intercollegiate Studies Institute).

Andrew Weber '91, aWeb publisher, freelance journalist and photographer in Seattle, Washington, offers a tremendous variety of hiking trails in 60 Hikes within 60 Miles:Seattle (Menasha Ridge Press).