EDITOR’S PICKS

EDITOR’S PICKS

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alumni books

THOMAS BIRD ’64 Can You Help Me? Oxford University Press

A pioneering neurogeneticist and founder of one of the first clinics to treat those with Huntington disease looks back on 40 years of caring for hundreds of patients with this progressive degenerative genetic brain disorder. His essays expose the ravages of this disease with stories of distress that celebrate human resiliency and optimism.

HENRY M. PAULSON JR. ’68 TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER ’83 Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons Penguin Books

Former treasury secretaries Paulson and Geithner teamed with former Fed chair Ben Bernanke to battle the 2008 financial inferno. Now they join forces to explain why the economy tanked and Washington, D.C., responded as it did, and together they offer prescriptions for preventing future economic firestorms.

ALEXANDER NAZARYAN ’02 The Best People Hachette Books

Donald Trump was “coming not to save Washington, but to destroy it,” writes Nazaryan, a Yahoo News national correspondent. He concludes that the president’s goal of rolling back the administrative state, from Obamacare to the EPA, is failing because he has been “undone by his own courtiers’ ” corruption and incompetence.

PRIYA KRISHNA ’13 Indian (-ish) Houghton Mifflin

Simplified traditional Indian recipes that can be dished up in 20 minutes—that’s the goal of this cookbook from Bon Appetit writer Krishna. A Dallas native, she grew up loving her mother’s Americanized cooking. Her book introduces many recipes with stories about her family that help demystify the subcontinent’s cuisine for beginners.

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