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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI
Russell Fraser '47, professor emeritus of English literature and language at the University of Michigan, shares his lifelong study of Shakespeare's work and life in Shakespeare:A Life in AH (Transaction Publishers).
Tony Jones '90, the national coordinator of Emergent Village, a nonprofit organization of the Emergent movement, provides an in-depth look into the new Christian faith in The NewChristians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier (Jossey-Bass).
Thomas O'Connell '50, president emeritus of Berkshire (Massachusetts) Community College, and brother Jeffrey O'Connell '51, a University of Virginia professor of law, explore the friendships between older, established men Samuel Johnson and Oliver Wendell Holmes and their younger, gifted companions, biographer James Boswell and socialist Harold Laski, in Friendships Across Ages: Johnson and Boswell;Holmes and Laski (Lexington Books).
David E. Bergesen '51 draws upon his experiences in the Korean War to write Ableon the Way! (Xlibris Corp), a fictional story of a young artillery lieutenant.
Lynmar Brock Jr. '55, Tu'56, a Quaker who served in the Navy in the 1950s and 19605, examines the issues of war through the eyes of a young Quaker colonist in his historical fiction for young adults, MustThee Fight (Book Surge Publishing).
Robert B. Reich'68, the former Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, offers a compelling and important analysis of the triumph of capitalism at the expense of democracy in Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Knopf).
Michael Quadland '65, a psychotherapist and a founder of the worlds largest AIDS organization, Gay Men's Health Crisis, tells a story of adolescent trauma and its effect on adult lives in his first novel, ThatWas Then (Red Hen Press).
Steven Reiss '68, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University, argues that experts over-diagnose mental illness because they confuse individuality for abnormality and mistakenly diagnose normal life problems as mild mental illnesses in The Normal Personality:A New Way of Thinking About People (Cambridge University Press).
Bill Price '72, former global vice president of customer service for Amazon.com and president of consulting firm Driva Solutions, outlines his seven principles for eliminating the need for customer service in The Best Service is No Service: How to Liberate Your Customers From Customer Service,Keep Them Happy arid Control Costs (JosseyBass).
B.K. Rkhra '8 and JoniCol, Adv'95 co-creator of the This Day diaty project, co-edits a collection of first-person accounts by women that reveal what a day is like in hundreds of jobs in Water Cooler Diaries (Da Capo Lifelong Books).
Ronald Knapp, Adv'73, describes how "religious poet" Walt Whitmans work illustrates the major spiritual themes of a modern faith in Of Life Immense: TheProphetic Vision of Walt Whitman (Outskirts Press).
Michael Shnayerson '76, contributing editor for Vanity Fair, gives a precise account of a landmark legal case between a coal-mining giant and local environmentalists—a true story of greed and power fought among West Virginias Appalachian Coal River (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Rick Beyer '78, a documentary producer whose work for the History Channel includes the Timelab 2000 series of history minutes, mines the HistoryChannel's archives for a collection of presidential tidbits in The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales fromHistory to Astonish, Bewilder and Stupefy (Collins).
Ed Gray '67, Tu'71; founder of Gray's Sporting Journal and frequent DAM contributor, with his father, L. Patrick Gray 111, explains what happened during his fathers crucial year as acting director of the FBI at the height of the Watergate scandal in In Nixon's Web:A Year in the Crosshairs ofWatergate (Times Books).
Elizabeth Davey '87, a program manager and environmental coordinator at Tulane University in New Orleans, recounts the story of Clinton Clark's work organizing black farmers in Louisiana during the Great Depression as coeditor of Remember My Sacrifice: The Autobiography of Clinton Clark,Tenant Farm Organizer and Early Civil RightsActivist (Louisiana State University Press). Steve Gaffney '88, a Los Angeles-based freelance photographer, captures the beauty of Dinosaur National Monuments remote, rapids-filled canyons in Dinosaur: Four Seasons on the Green and Yampa Rivers (University of Arizona Press).
James Miner '92, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Minnesota, addresses emergency sedation and analgesia with specific emphasis on treatment of the emergency department patient in Emergency Sedation andPainManagement (Cambridge University Press)
Margaret Wheeler '97, a rock and ski mountaineering guide, co-authors a handbook of intermediateto-advanced ski-touring and ski-mountaineering techniques in Backcountry Skiing:Skills for SkiTouring and Ski Mountaineering (Mountaineer Books).
Taylor Clark '02, a Portland, Oregon-based journalist, explores the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corp. and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success in Starbucked:ADouble Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce and Culture (Little, Brown & Co.).
