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BOOKSHELF

Thumbnail Sketches: 29 Important Americans by Richard R. Weber ’42. Weber sketches out brief biographies of U.S. history’s most important figures, from William Jennings Bryan to Woodrow Wilson (Vantage Press, $12.95).

Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities by Eugene Goodheart ’53. In this volume, the author — Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Brandeis — attacks the neo-Darwinist approach to the arts and defends humanist criticism (Transaction, $32.95).

Yellow Flag

Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte ’57.

Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte ’57. This latest young-adult novel from the veteran author is set in the world of stock-car racing. Kyle, one of a family of racing legends, is forced to take the driver’s seat when his talented older brother is injured (HarperTeen, $16.99).

Mountain Rat by George Erdstein ’60. During summer 1957, Phil Dechter, a Columbia College pre-med, is a busboy in the cutthroat environment of a Catskills resort (PublishAmerica, $19.95).

Toni Cade Bambara’s One Sicilian Night: A Memoir by Anthony Valerio ’62. This first volume of Valerio’s memoir depicts American writers in Italy around 1991, including Harold Brodkey, Kurt Vonnegut and Toni Cade Bambara (Bordighera Press, $10).

Peace Action: Past, Present, And Future edited by Lawrence S. Wittner ’62 and Glen H. Stassen. A collection of essays on the three largest U.S. peace organizations of the past half-century — the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and Peace Action — written by their leaders (Paradigm Publishers, $16.95).

Make Hay While the Sun Shines: Farms, Forests and People of the North Quabbin by Allen Young ’62. Articles Young wrote in the ’70s and ’80s for the Athol (Mass.) Daily News and the Valley Advocate are reprinted with updates and a mix of new and old photographs (www.iuniverse.com, $16.95).

How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett ’64. Padgett’s latest collection of poems “is an attempt to sing about the oddity and beauty of puzzling out what its means to be alive now” (Coffee House Press, $15).

The Savior: A Novel by Eugene Drucker ’73. In this WWII novel, young musician Gottfried Keller is forced to play the violin for a group of near-death concentration-camp detainees; see September/October Bookshelf for more (Simon & Schuster, $23).

Who Killed Andrei Warhol by Alexander J. Motyl ’75. In this absurdist tragicomedy, Motyl describes the imaginary friendship between an orthodox Communist, Soviet Ukrainian journalist Sasha Ivanov, and pop artist Andy Warhol (Seven Locks Press, $18.95).

Guide to ESOP Valuation and Financial Advisory Services by Robert F. Reilly ’75 and Robert P. Schweihs. A new and updated edition of the of the 2005 guide by Reilly and Schweihs, managing directors at Willamette Management Associates (Willamette Management Associates, $59.95).

The Moose Show by Matthew Licht ’82. A collection of short stories by Licht, who was nominated this year for the Frank O’Hara Award (Salt Publishing, $14.95).

A Hanukkah Present by Mark Binder ’84. A collection of 11 Hanukkah stories, previously published in Cricket, The Shofar and other publications, plus one new novella (Light Publications, $19.95).

Sexiest Man Alive by Diana Holquist ’89. Jasmine, a costume designer who is mortally afraid of attractive men, lands the job of dressing one of the world’s sexiest movie stars (Warner Forever, $6.99).

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Michael A. Lerner ’89.

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Michael A. Lerner ’89. In this history of Prohibition in New York City, Lerner looks at the “noble experiment” of the 18th Amendment and the world of speakeasies, corruption and vice that it fostered (Harvard University Press, $28.95).

Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia by Peter Cole ’91. This book describes the rise and fall of Philadelphia’s Local 8 union, “the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the US prior to the CIO era” (University of Illinois Press, $40).

“Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885

“Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885 by Tina Gianquitto ’91.

“Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885 by Tina Gianquitto ’91. Gianquitto focuses on four writers (Almira Phelps, Margaret Fuller, Susan Fenimore Cooper and Mary Treat) in order to study changes in the way 19th-century women looked at the natural world (University of Georgia Press, $19.95).

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch, professor of English and comparative literature.

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch, professor of English and comparative literature. A history of the fate of the world’s first great epic, the tale of Gilgamesh, which was lost in 612 B.C. (Henry Holt and Company, $26).

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598–1642

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598–1642 by Jean E. Howard, William B. Ransford Professor of English.

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598–1642 by Jean E. Howard, William B. Ransford Professor of English. Howard’s book examines the ways in which London comedy in the first half of the 17th century portrayed and interpreted the locales in which its scenes were set (University of Pennsylvania Press, $55).

The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue by Matthew L. Jones, assistant professor of history. Jones’ study of three early modern scientists shows how these men imagined their work as a useful aid to the cultivation of virtue, and the pursuit of the good life (University of Chicago Press, $27.50).

Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard

 

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