EDITOR'S PICKS

EDITOR'S PICKS

alumni books

CHARLES B. SCHUDSON ’72

Independence Corrupted: How America’s Judges Make Their Decisions

University of Wisconsin Press

A former appellate judge takes readers behind the bench to probe the judicial minds that oversee trials and sentencings. Their stories reveal the pressures that threaten judicial ethics and the reforms needed to protect judicial independence.

PETER STARK ’76

Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father

Ecco

Adventure writer Stark tells the story of a young George Washington and his harrowing exploits serving the British Empire in the Ohio wilderness of the 1750s. It’s “supremely entertaining...the descriptions of conflict and wilderness travails rousing,” raves The Wall Street Journal.

RICHARD A. CONN JR. ’79

The Earthbound Parent: How (and Why) to Raise Your Little Angels Without Religion

Pitchstone

Conn, a father of four, gives advice on how to raise children without any religious beliefs to prevent religious violence. “A child’s innocent belief in Santa Claus will not result in the killing of people, but an adult’s extremist belief in a god or gods can,” he explains.

ERIC DEZENHALL ’84

Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War

Twelve

In this true story of the improbable friendship between a CIA case officer and a KGB double agent, crisis consultant Dezenhall and coauthor Gus Russo detail how two espionage cowboys worked together to unearth a Soviet mole.

JESSICA WARD ’04

The Art of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse

Disney Editions

Longtime Disney Publishing editor Ward shares highlights of the mouse’s 90 years entertaining audiences. From his debut in the 1928 cartoon short Steamboat Willie, “Mickey was...assigned to the purposes of laughter,” said creator Walt Disney.

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