EDITOR’S PICKS

EDITOR’S PICKS

alumni books

GEORGE W. LIEBMANN ’60

America’s Political Inventors: The Lost Art of Legislation

I.B. Tauris

Historian Liebmann, a Baltimore attorney and former U.S. Senate candidate, bemoans the corrosive effects of special interest groups in U.S. politics. His sharply drawn profiles of John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other luminaries enliven a work that celebrates individual and local initiatives in early AngloAmerican politics.

FREDRIC PRICE ’67

My Mother’s Son

Fig Tree Books

Writing as David Hirshberg, Price delivers a beguiling coming-ofage novel that plays out against the backdrop of the Korean War, the Holocaust’s aftermath and a vibrant postwar Boston neighborhood.

LILLIAN GUERRA ’92 Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958

Yale University Press

In what’s been called “the best political history of Cuba’s 19461958 period,” this University of Florida historian draws from newly opened Cuban archives to construct a vivid history of the underground movement that led to Castro’s Communist takeover.

BRAD PARKS ’96

Closer Than You Know

Dutton

Hardboiled writer Parks, winner of crime fiction’s Lefty, Nero and Shamus Awards, delivers a grim and gripping dose of tension in this domestic thriller about a young mom raised in foster care battling to find her baby, who’s been mysteriously seized by social services.

FLORENCE GONSALVES ’15

Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

Little, Brown and Co.

Mix Lena Dunham with Amy Poehler. Add a dash of bestselling author Sarah Dessen. Shake vigorously and you have a darkly humorous young adult novel about a Harvard premed student with an eating disorder. “Pitch perfect,” says Booklist.

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