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BOOKSHELF
Compiled by Timothy P. Cross and Laura Butchy

Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character by Roger G. Kennedy. A revisionist study that places Burr center stage in the founding of the Republic, while portraying Alexander Hamilton (Class of 1778) as a conflicted Machiavellian schemer, "at once trustworthy and unreliable" (Oxford University Press, $30 cloth, $18.95 paper).

The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought by Mortimer J. Adler '23. From "Angel" to "World," this volume's 102 essays (originally published in the Synopticon to the Encylopaedia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World) explore the ideas that have characterized 2,500 years of Western thought (Scribner Classics, $55).

Langston Hughes ['25]: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. In this volume of his "Major Poets" series, the editor insists that "something authentic and powerful almost always struggles to break through" in Hughes's poetry (Chelsea House Publishers, $19.95).

Isamu Noguchi ['26]: A Study in Space by Ana Maria Torres. The first comprehensive study of the gardens, parks, plazas and other public works (including five proposals for a Riverside Park playground) of the famed sculptor, garden designer, and architect (Monacelli Press, $65).

The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1823-1911, edited by Howard N. Meyer '34. The first collection of essays and public writings of the minister and abolitionist, who led an African-American regiment for the Union during the Civil War, worked tirelessly for women's suffrage, and edited the poems of his friend Emily Dickinson for publication (Da Capo Press, $25).

Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume Two, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary '41, Special Service Professor, and Richard Lufrano. A new edition of an anthology (originally published in 1960) that has been the first introduction to Chinese civilization for countless readers and a staple of the "Introduction to Asian Civilizations" core course (Columbia University Press, $49.50).

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era: Fiction, by Donald Keene '42, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus. The first part of Keene's treatment of modern Japanese literature examines all the important Japanese fiction authors since the Meiji Restoration in 1868 (Columbia University Press, $75 cloth, $32.50 paper).

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism, by Donald Keene '42, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus. The final volume of Keene's history of Japanese letters, which has been hailed as an "indispensable account of an entire literature" (Columbia University Press, $50 cloth, $25 paper).

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture, edited by Holly George-Warren. A comprehensive collection of articles, memoirs and reviews that details the rise and continuing popularity of the Beat movement, with chapters devoted to Jack Kerouac '44, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg '48 (Hyperion, $27.50 cloth, $15.95 paper).

The Man in the Dugout: Baseball's Top Managers & How They Got That Way, expanded edition, by Leonard Koppett '44. The Hall of Fame baseball writer has updated his 1992 classic about the leaders in the dugout, while sticking to his "central theme of inherited styles" (Temple University Press, $29.50).

Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1775-1865 by Gilman M. Ostrander '46. This study of America's literary and intellectual elites in the 90 years leading up to the Civil War has finally been published over a dozen years after the death of Ostrander (1923-1986), who had been a history professor at Canada's University of Waterloo (Madison House, $35.95).

Zone of the Interior: A Memoir, 1942-1947 by Daniel Hoffman '47. The wartime memories of the future Poet Laureate of the United States, who at 20 was given the great responsibility of compiling the AAF Technical Data Digest, an essential Army Air Force journal of aeronautical research and development (Louisiana State University Press, $22.50).

The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg ['48]: A Narrative Poem by Edward Sanders. A fellow poet, friend and admirer eulogizes the Beat icon and Class of '48 dropout in epic verse (Overlook Press, $27.95).

Christmas Poems, edited by John Hollander '50. A cheerful selection of memorable Yuletide verse selected by Yale's Sterling Professor of English (Everyman's Library, $12.50).

Shakespeare: The Main Story by Harry Pauley '50. A play-by-play guide for students, actors and theatergoers to the dominant plotlines, subplots and characters of the Bard's entire dramatic corpus (1st Books Library, $24.91 paper).

Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty, edited by John Minford and Joseph S. M. Lau. Burton Watson '50 translated many texts in this comprehensive anthology of poetry, drama, fiction, songs, biographies and works of early Chinese philosophy and history (Columbia University Press, $65).

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