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by John Shors ’91 Shors’ third novel is set in modernday Vietnam and tells the story of Iris and Noah, two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. Inspired by the street children she meets, Iris walks in the footsteps of…

by Tom Cronin, CC political science professor and Michael Genovese This is an expanded update of the highly regarded “The State of the Presidency” (1980). The presidency is loaded with paradoxes that make the job arduous under the best of circumstances. The public wants a strong president but is suspicious of power; it yearns for…

by Peter Devine “The Final Interview” is a 100- minute interview with Studs Terkel, one of the world’s greatest contemporary oral historians, and was conducted in February 2005 after Terkel broke his neck. Terkel could not sit still for long periods, making this one of his longest postaccident interviews. Devine, a reporter for the Manchester…

by Paula Becker ’85 and Alan J. Stein The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held on the University of Washington campus in 1909, was a major community effort that brought Seattle and Washington State (then only 20 years old) into the national spotlight. It was the first world’s fair to make a profit, provided a platform for women’s…

by Kristin Johnston Largen ’90 It is a truism in the study of religion that to understand one’s own tradition one must inhabit another’s deeply. Largen, assistant professor of systematic theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., takes the reader on a pilgrimage into Buddhism in order to ultimately address what Christians mean by…

by James Rice ’85 This study of the Potomac River basin opens with a mystery: Why, when the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly threequarters of the area uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice uses archaeological and anthropological research, as well as scholarship on farming practices at the time,…

by Bill Greer ’76 In this novel about New Amsterdam, Greer paints a portrait of life in the Dutch settlement as experienced by Jackie Lambert, a teenage bride who is among the first settlers and who witnesses the English takeover 40 years later. Mevrouw (a Dutch housewife) Lambert opens a window into the transplanting of…

by Stephen Trimble ’72 Stephen Trimble tackles the paradox of the modern West: How do people inhabit and develop a rapidly vanishing landscape? Trimble weaves the important tale of public land transformed into a commercial ski resort with his own construction of a second home near a national park. This juxtaposition elevates the book from…

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, edited by Christopher Kelly and Eve Grace, CC associate professor of political science A key thematic sampling of Rousseau’s published writings come together in this anthology, some newly translated or translated into English for the first time by the editors. The book has been called “a must-read for all students of Rousseau…

by Betty L. Alt ’60 and Sandra K. Wells “Mountain Mafia” is a brief history of the Black Hand and Mafia in the Rocky Mountain region, and brings to life some of the West’s more colorful organized crime leaders of the 20th century. The famous court case of “Scotty” Spinuzzi is looked at in depth;…