EDITOR’S PICKS

EDITOR’S PICKS

alumni books

PAUL NELSON ’56

Learning to Miss

Guernica World Editions

In his ninth book of poetry, the former National Endowment for the Arts fellow ranges across historical, classical, and biblical worlds—from Adam to Odysseus as well as the landscapes of rural Maine and Hawaii.

JUSTIN A. FRANK ’64

Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President

Avery

In his third book analyzing a sitting president, psychiatrist Frank examines Trump’s idiosyncratic use of language, business dealings, and childhood—including the absence of a strong mother while he was growing up. Frank’s diagnosis concludes that Trump has a personality riddled with mental health issues.

DAVID S. MCCARTHY ’99

Selling the CIA: Public Relations and the Culture of Secrecy

University Press of Kansas

“More openness with greater secrecy.” That’s how a CIA chief described his agency’s aggressive media manipulation campaign following the 1975 revelations that the CIA spied on Americans. History professor McCarthy explains how this positive spin on secrecy threatens democracy.

TONY PERRY ’99

Chula the Fox

Chickasaw Press

Perry draws on his research into his Chickasaw heritage to inform a novel for middle school readers about a Native American boy in the early 1700s who comes to terms with the loss of his father during an enemy attack.

MEGAN FONTANELLA ’04

Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim

Guggenheim Publications

Fontanella, a curator of modern art at the Guggenheim Museum, recounts how the collection of one of Europe’s most influential dealers became the core of the museum’s impressionist, postimpressionist, and School of Paris holdings, including 32 works by Picasso.

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