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by Thom Shanker ’78 and Eric Schmitt These two New York Times national security team reporters tell the story of how a group of analysts within the military, at spy agencies, and in law enforcement has fashioned an innovative and effective new strategy to fight terrorism, unbeknownst to most Americans and in sharp contrast to the…

by Julie Moffett ’84 SWFG: Single, White, Female, Geek. That’s Lexi Carmichael, geek extraordinaire and Moffett’s protagonist. In “No One Lives Twice,” Lexi spends her days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency and nights avoiding her mother and eating cereal for dinner. Says Lexi, “Even though I work for a top-secret agency, I’ve…

by John Gould, CC Associate Professor of Political Science In this story of post-communist politics gone wrong, Gould explores privatization’s role in the scramble for wealth and power in post-communist Europe. Does democratic development facilitate effective capitalist reform, or vice versa? How do political legacies shape privatization choices? Is simultaneous transition feasible? Offering new empirical information…

by John Simons, CC Professor of English “Peckinpah’s Tragic Westerns” examines the work of filmmaker Sam Peckinpah and places it within the 2,000-year-old tradition of Western tragedy. The tradition, enfolding the Greeks, Shakespeare, and modern tragedians, is represented in Peckinpah’s art in numerous ways, and the fact that he worked in the mode throughout his career…

by Hersch Wilson ’72 “Test of Faith” is a story of sanity or insanity — take your pick. Beneficio Augustin Rael is a world-famous artist. But at the end of his career, the spirit world returns to Beneficio in the form of otherworldly messengers who remind him that his talent is not his but God’s,…

by John Shors ’91 The 2004 tsunami that ravaged 11 countries around the Indian Ocean seems a difficult subject for a novel, but Shors manages to convey the drama on a human scale. The book takes place on Thailand’s pristine Ko Phi Phi island and centers on two families: one, a three-generational Thai family trying to…

by Larry Stimpert, CC Professor of Economics and Business, with Julie A. Chesley, formerly of the CC economics department, and Irene M. Duhaime The book provides a realistic picture of the dynamic and complex process of strategic management in organizations. Written from the perspective of a manager, Stimpert’s book builds on theories of managerial and organizational…

by Miles White ’92 This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, White examines how these…

by Steve Pettit ’73 This coming of age story features Yano, who lives in western New Mexico circa 1100 A.D. There is both excitement and tragedy in Yano’s world, and when all-out war breaks out, Yano is forced on a mission of vital importance to the survival of his pueblo, one that takes all his courage,…

by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, with Kristin Thomson ’89 contributing How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other…