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The
Gentle Infantryman For
Love and Glory
Bill Boyd's first book, The Gentle Infantryman, an acclaimed autobiographical coming-of-age WWII novel published in 1985, is now reissued in paperback. For Love and Glory, Boyd's fourth book, is a novel about a 43-year-old WWII officer who grapples with frontline fighting, inner pain and wartime romance to emerge a hero. Drafted into the U.S. Army two weeks after graduating from PA, Boyd served as a combat infantryman in Europe and was awarded the Bronze Star for exemplary conduct under fire. He is chairman of the board of Boyd Steamship Corporation in Panama and resides in Panama City, New York City and the Bahamas.
Destroying
Angel The self-aware computer program in the novel Destroying Angel has completely taken over the Internet and has determined the key to its own immortality is to make sure end-of-the-world Biblical prophecy is not fulfilled. This novel of suppressed genius and human growth potential chronicles God's last six days creating His very own Destroying Angel. Read more about Rick Bennett's first novel at www.destroying angel.com. Bennett owns an ad agency and lives in Sandy, Utah.
Baseball
Days: Champions:
Baseball Days highlights the aspects of baseball that make it America's favorite game and unabashedly sings praises to its unsung heroes. Bill Littlefield's intelligent, wry and devoted perspective is complemented by captivating and insightful photographs. Champions, intended for the young adult reader, tells the inspiring stories of 10 accomplished athletes, each of whom is worthy of a child's admiration. Littlefield is a sports commentator for National Public Radio, the host of NPR's "Only a Game." He teaches writing at Curry College in Milton, Mass., and lives in Needham, Mass.
In
the Name of Salome The
Secret Footprints
Based on the real lives of two heroic Latina women, Julia Alvarez' fourth novel, In the Name of Salome, tells the story of a poet who inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter, whose dedication to teaching strengthened another revolution. Spanning 100 years, the story is set in the politically chaotic 19th century Dominican Republic, on three American university campuses and in 1960s Communist Cuba. In the beautifully illustrated children's story The Secret Footprints, Alvarez shares the legend from the Dominican Republic about creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backwards so humans couldn't follow their footprints. But once upon a time their secret was almost discovered when a female creature became enchanted with a human boy. Alvarez is an award-winning author and a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. She lives in Middlebury, Vt. |
Department
& Discipline: In this detailed analysis of the Chicago school of sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates the shifts in social scientific inquiry and discloses the intellectual rivalry and faculty politics that characterized different stages of the Chicago school. He also traces the rich history of the discipline's main journal, the American Journal of Sociology. Abbott is the Ralph Lewis Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor, which won the Sorokin Prize of the American Sociological Association in 1991.
The
Constitution and the New Deal In this impeccably researched volume, G. Edward White challenges the current understanding of 20th-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He offers an alternative characterization of the relationship between the Constitution and the New Deal, rejecting characterizations such as "liberal" and "conservative" and re-examining several key topics in constitutional law. White is University Professor and John B. Minor Professor of Law and History, University of Virginia, and author of a number of prize-winning books. In 1996 he received the Triennial Coif Award for distinguished scholarship from the Association of American Law Schools.
The
Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872
In this volume, Lyde Cullen Sizer explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period. She shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women used their mainstream writing to engage in the national debates of the time and to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism and death. Sizer teaches U.S. cultural and intellectual history, Civil War history and women's history at Sarah Lawrence College. Robert
Kennedy: His Life
By gaining access to RFK's private papers and by interviewing all of Kennedy's closest aides and advisers, Evan Thomas unearths many parts of Kennedy's career that other biographers have neglected or avoided. He explores evidence linking RFK and Marilyn Monroe; RFK's involvement with the Mafia and assassination plots against Castro; the source of RFK's ambivalent attitude toward the Warren Commission; LBJ's smears; and the presidential campaign that RFK's aides tried to tone down and that ended with his assassination. Thomas is assistant managing editor of Newsweek in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Wise Men (with Walter Iaacson); The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams, Ultimate Insider; and The Very Best Man‹Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA.
These capsule reviews were prepared by Sharon Magnuson and Paula Trespas.
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