Below is a list of books that were exhibited in Sterling Memorial Library on the occasion of the class’s 50th reunion, along with commentaries by and about their authors submitted at the time of the reunion. All commentaries are provided here as is. Some of the authors chose to include no comments; because some authors were deceased, their comments were written by others. One book, about her late husband, was written by his widow.

Robert P. Armstrong
     • Ghana Country Assistance Review

Bob Armstrong's first book, of which he was a co-author, was entitled Growth without Development (Northwestern University Press, 1966). That book came out of his research on Liberia with a team of economists from Northwestern. His latest book, shown here, is a case study of aid effectiveness in Ghana, a country with a relatively high rate of growth compared to other African countries. Bob came to write this book because he had designed a new methodology for evaluating the relevance, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of donor assistance, over time and at a countrywide level. This book piloted the application of that methodology, which has since been adopted at the OECD and by most aid donors. Bob continues to work on and write about economic development in general and aid effectiveness in particular.

James M. Banner, Jr.
     • To the Hartford Convention
     • (with Harold C. Cannon) The Elements of Learning
     • (with Harold C. Cannon) The Elements of Teaching

A historian, principally of the United States, I've written widely on many subjects. These three books, which represent but a fraction of what I've written, are my most influential full-length works and only begin to suggest the range of topics I've taught and written on – topics that have included European history, politics, and education. The Elements of Teaching and The Elements of Learning have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Korean, French, and (soon) Czech. All three books have given me much satisfaction and – who knows? – may even have done a little good.

Paul G. Chevigny
     • More Speech
     • Edge of the Knife
     • Gigs

Most of my books are concerned with police problems, in the United States as well as Latin America. The titles of the first two, Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City (1969) and Cops and Rebels: A Study of Provocation (1972) are almost self-explanatory. The first was an exploration of violence and unlawful search by the police, and the second was an examination of agent-provocateur activities by the police, chiefly during the sixties and seventies. Criminal Mischief (1976) is a thriller about a police provocateur. The last of my books, Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas (1995) is a comparative study of police brutality in six cities in the Americas.

The other two books are quite different. More Speech: Dialogue Rights and Modern Liberty (1988) argues for a new approach to free expression rooted in the need for dialogue in order to understand social meanings. Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City (1991) is a law-and-society study of a change in the laws in New York relating to the popular arts.

Timothy W. Childs
     • Italo-Turkish Diplomacy and the War Over Libya 1911-1912

From the mid 1970s on Tim Childs was deeply interested in Turkey, the Ottomans, and the Balkans. He studied diplomatic history at Georgetown and got a Ph.D in 1982. During that time he spent several months in Istanbul and Rome doing research in the diplomatic archives. Then he worked on turning his research into this book. During the 1980s and 90s Tim frequently spoke on the area and the conditions that lead to WW1 and continue to lead to problems in the region today.

David S. Clarke, Jr.
     • Practical Inferences
     • Philosophy's Second Revolution
     • Sign Levels

David (“Dave”) Clarke retired from the Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2001. He is the author of many articles in the areas of philosophy of language and logic. His publications include Practical Inferences (1985), Principles of Semiotics (1987), Rational Acceptance and Purpose (1988), Sources of Semiotics (1990), Deductive Logic (1997), Philosophy's Second Revolution (1997), Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude (2002), Sign Levels (2003), Panpsychism: Past and Recent Selections (2004), and Some Pragmatist Themes (2007).

Walter S. Clarke
     • Learning from Somalia

Towards the end of my Foreign Service career, I was asked to serve as deputy head of the U.S. Liaison Office in Mogadishu for several months in 1993. The following year, after the U.S. largely ignored the genocide in Rwanda, some friends at Princeton and I organized a conference to examine the Somalia experience. Most participants agreed that we did not engage in Rwanda because the U.S. really did not understand the implications of its intervention in Somalia. This book, co-edited with Professor Jeffrey Herbst, includes the papers presented at the Princeton conference. I have also written many articles published in professional and military journals on civil-military relations and current African politics.

Stephen Colgate
     • Steve Colgate on Sailing
     • Fast Track to Cruising
     • Fundamentals of Sailing, Cruising and Racing

These books were written by Olympic sailor, Steve Colgate, who has sailed six transatlantic races, nineteen Newport-to-Bermuda races, America's Cup trials on American Eagle and Heritage and hundreds of other sailboat races and cruises around the world. He founded Offshore Sailing School in 1964 and still turns out over 2,000 new sailors a year. He is a recipient of SAIL magazine's Industry Award for Leadership with his wife, Doris.

Steve is the author of ten books about cruising and racing, a columnist for SAIL magazine and a feature writer for Yachting and other boating magazines. Additionally he has competed in the Pan American games, on the U.S. Admiral's Cup Team, in the Swan Worlds and the Soling North Americans. This January he rounded Cape Horn on a 56' sailboat. Currently he is the tactician on a 72' racing yacht, Donneybrook.

Michael G. Cooke
     • Afro-American Literature in the 20th Century
     • Acts of Inclusion

Our classmate Mike Cooke died in September of 1990 from a car accident in New Haven, the day he had turned 56 years old. He is survived by his wife Yvonne, two daughters and two sons. At the time he was Bird White Housum Professor of English Literature at Yale. He was a teacher, a literary scholar of international standing, and an authority on the English Romantic Movement and African and Caribbean Literature. During the 1970s, Mike served as chair of the English Department at Yale, and was the editor or author of several books including his last, published by Yale University Press in 1984: Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy.

In 1969 Mike completed The Blind Man Traces a Circle: On the Patterns and Philosophy of Byron’s Poetry, published by Princeton University Press. In 1977, Yale published his book The Romantic Will, and in 1979, Acts of Inclusion: Studies Bearing on an Elementary Theory of Romanticism.

Mike was a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College, a Scholar of the House (creative writing), and a ranking Scholar. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Many of us might have known him best as an All-Ivy, All-New England, and All-American soccer player while at Yale.

Marvin R. Cox
     • Place of the French Revolution in History

This book consists of texts and commentary that illustrate the development over the preceding 150 years of conflicting interpretations of the French Revolution’s place in history. The main antagonists are twentieth-century historians: on the one side stand Marxists who champion the idea of a ‘bourgeois capitalist revolution,’ on the other those who view it as a ‘revolution in political culture.’ Within the book Tocqueville occupies a nineteenth-century middle ground as a politico-social historian who believed in a non-capitalist bourgeois revolution.

Richard C. Crisler, Jr.
     • Fascinated

Dick Crisler was given a simple Kodak camera when he was twelve years old, and never stopped taking pictures. His work has appeared in 38 one-artist exhibitions in Washington, D.C. and Germany, and sixteen group exhibitions across the United States. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Theatre Arts, Preservation News, and New Art Examiner, and in five catalogs covering landscapes in four East German states and the American Southwest. (One of these Southwest photographs was presented by President Clinton to the Japanese Prime Mister Hashimoto on a state visit in 1996.)

Dick earned a Ph.D in political science from Georgetown University in 1973, and spent several years in the diplomatic service. He and his wife Gabriele spend half their time in Berlin, and half on a farm overlooking the Ohio River in northern Kentucky.

James B. Crooks
     • Politics and Progress: The Rise of Urban Progressivism in Baltimore, 1895-1911
     • Jacksonville After the Fire, 1901-1919: A New South City
     • Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars

Two years out of Yale, I switched careers from insurance to college teaching. At Johns Hopkins University, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Baltimore in the Progressive Era, published in 1968. In Florida, where I had moved to become founding chair of the new University of North Florida’s history program, a student encouraged me to write Jacksonville’s history. I began with Jacksonville After the Fire, 1901-1919, published in 1991. It described the growth and development of Florida’s largest city on the eve of the Florida Boom. Meanwhile local voters elected a mayor and I became ‘historian-in-residence’ to write the history of his administrations. The mayor failed at re-election and I expanded my topic to include Jacksonville from the civil rights era to the coming of the Jaguars, published in 2004. It examined race relations, environmental issues and the challenge of re-vitalizing downtown under the city’s unique city/county consolidated government.

Clark E. Cunningham
     • Structuralism's Transformation
     • Postwar Migration of Toba-Bataks to East Sumatra

I became interested in Asia through a sophomore China history course; I learned that Yale offered Southeast Asian languages; and I studied intensive Indonesian the next summer and junior year. In that Spring I was offered the opportunity to assist a Yale geographer, Karl Pelzer, in a one-year study of agrarian change in Indonesia. Taking a leave, I did research in villages of the Batak people in North Sumatra. I returned to join the Class of 1957 and wrote a thesis on Batak migration in the Scholars of the House Program. It was published in 1958 and the die was cast. Later I did research, teaching and consultancies in Indonesia and Thailand until the 1990s and taught about Southeast Asia regularly. Since retirement I have been researching Indonesian migrants to the U.S., including Batak, bringing my career full circle.

Muller Davis
     • The Illinois Practice of Family Law

I have published seven editions of The Illinois Practice of Family Law, beginning with the 1995 edition. The book is for use by lawyers, accountants, students, and others dealing with and learning about the practice of family law. Starting with the 2000 edition, Jody Meyer Yazici joined me as a named co-author. The most recent edition was published in December of 2006. The publisher of each edition has been Thomson West. We are proud that the book, now in two volumes, has been well received for so many editions. Interestingly, it is now also frequently consulted electronically on Westlaw. I was also a contributor to Marriage, Health, and the Professions, published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. in 2002, and to Parenthood, published by the Guilford Press in 1984.

Marshall J. Dodge III
     • Bert and I and Other Stories from Down East
     • Frost, You Say? A Yankee Monologue

Marshall “Mike” Dodge began his fascination with Maine and Down East stores while a classmate of ours. He became a nationally known monologist, recorded many popular “Bert and I” stories originally at his Frog Recordings studio in Greenwich Village.

Many of his friends hear his humor at the first sound of a fog horn, a fresh breeze, or a faulty steam engine. He was devoted to the arts and the study of philosophy (preparing, he said, to write a history of time). He was an unsuccessful inventor, a cyclist, and a folklorist who founded the Maine Festival of the Arts. He appeared alone and with his co-authors and book artist in any number of PBS productions.

Mike was hit and killed by a van on January 17, 1982 while riding his bicycle to dinner in Hawaii. At his memorial service, Mike’s Yale friend and co-author, Episcopalian clergyman Robert Bryan, said that “Mike lived out at the edge of his energies…. He was free in so many ways: free of the structures, the attitudes, all those things of society which close us in and limit us.”

Jerome H. Farnum
     • 20 Ausfluge su den alten Romesn in der Schweiz
     • Guide Romain de la Suisse
     • The Positioning of the Roman Imperial Legions

After Yale, a tour at sea with the U.S. Navy, and 3 grueling years at Harvard Law School, I joined the Dow Chemical Legal Department. I soon was transferred to Switzerland to build a chemical empire in Europe. In my free time during the next 35 years there, I became fascinated with the Roman ruins that are found everywhere in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The first book in German stayed at the top of the Swiss best seller list for almost 3 months. After that came a rewrite for French Switzerland and a similar book on Swiss castles. Research led to more research and eventually I found myself building a matrix of the Roman legions, their histories, locations, and the rationale of their movements around the Empire. It would appear that this effort has served a serious scholarly purpose as well as crystallizing a most enjoyable hobby, at least so says British Archaeological Reports and the reviewers.

Erwin J. Fleissner
     • Vital Harmonies: Molecular Biology and Our Shared Humanity

Erwin Fleissner was Professor Emeritus of Biology and past Dean of Sciences and Mathematics (1987-1998) at Hunter College. Before coming to Hunter, he was a Member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. There he discovered the protein composition of retroviruses and did research on the roles of cell-derived genes in cancers caused by such viruses in animals. Professor Fleissner graduated from Yale in 1957 with a BA in Physics and Philosophy. He then went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, coming back to the United States two years later to do a Ph.D in Biochemistry at Columbia University. Upon receiving his degree in 1963, Professor Fleissner joined the laboratory of Nobel-Prize winning scientist Fritz Lipmann at Rockefeller University. He accepted an offer from Sloan-Kettering in 1966. An author of over 75 research papers, he recently published a book for a wider audience: Vital Harmonies: Molecular Biology and Our Shared Humanity (Columbia University Press, 2004). The paperback edition came out in 2006.

Robert W. Ganger
     • Lila Vanderbilt Webb's Miradero: Window on an Era

“Miradero” was the name given to a Florida winter estate designed and built by Lila Vanderbilt Webb in the early 1930s. Bob Ganger’s family acquired the house in a decrepit state in 1969, saving it from certain demolition. Following retirement, Bob and his wife, Anneli, began a lengthy task of authentically re-restoring their home.

Research on the original owner revealed some fascinating surprises. Lila Webb (1860-1936) was the youngest daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt, sole beneficiary of the “Commodore” Vanderbilt estate. Lila’s mythically grand life began to fall apart at the turn of the 20th Century when her charismatic husband, Seward Webb, became addicted to morphine. The story enfolds as Lila is forced to shed her Victorian upbringing, take over the family business, and prove her worth as an emancipated woman. Miradero was published in 2005 and received a “Best Non Fiction” award in regional judging by the Independent Publishers Association.

Harry F. Goldberg
     • Real Estate Limited Partnerships (3rd ed.)

Ted Lynn was my law school roommate. This book went through three editions: 1977, 1983 and 1991, each with a different third co-author. This period pretty much covered the time that real estate syndications were popular and the period during which the relevant tax and securities laws adapted to the realities of the marketplace.

Otis L. Graham, Jr.
     • Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis

I have a long-standing concern over the collision of our rapidly multiplying human numbers and the natural ecosystems that support and refresh us – a concern going back to high school encounters with the classic books by William Vogt and Fairfield Osborn. These environmental commitments began to influence my writing on national planning, and have been the central focus of my work since the early 1990s. Currently, I explore the population component of the “problem-cluster” of population, resources, and the environment, especially the role of immigration in preventing population stabilization in the United States.

Peter B. Grose
     • Israel in the Mind of America
     • Operation Rollback
     • Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

After 18 years as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and the New York Times, writing daily news dispatches from London, Moscow, Saigon, Jerusalem, and points in between, Peter Grose crossed over from journalism to the academic side of reporting and analysis of the contemporary world. He became Executive Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, and author of numerous historical accounts of the Cold War that he had lived through as a reporter. In addition to the three books displayed here he was invited to write the official history of the Council on Foreign Relations, published and reprinted by the New York-based Council as Continuing the Inquiry. He is now a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Frederick G. Guggenheim
     • Major Psychiatric Disorders
     • Manual of Psychiatric Consultation and Emergency Psychiatry
     • Psychological Aspects of Surgery

After training in internal medicine and then psychiatry with a research stint at NIH, I was an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for a decade, then moved on to Southwestern Medical School at Dallas for some years, with edited books from those two places. Then I was chosen to be the Marie Wilson Howells Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences for seventeen years, and now I am a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Brown.

My interest over the years has been in teaching medical students and residents, in the setting of clinical care, with my writings to help in that effort. My clinical skill sets have been in the care of the very sick, focusing on the medical patient with psychiatric illness and the psychiatric patient with medical illness...an interesting interface.

Donald D. Hester
     • Studies of Portfolio Behavior
     • Bank Management and Portfolio Behavior
     • Banking Changes in the European Monetary Union: an Italian Perspective

Donald Hester is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He received a BA, MA, and Ph.D from Yale, where he was on the faculty until 1968. From 1968 until 2000, as a professor at Wisconsin, he taught courses in macroeconomics, econometrics, finance, financial institutions, and money and banking. He was a visiting junior professor at the University of Bombay in 1962-63, where he published his first book, Indian Banks: their Portfolios, Profits, and Policy. He co-edited three volumes of essays with James Tobin in 1967; one appears in this exhibit. He coauthored a large empirical study of U.S. commercial and mutual savings banks with James Pierce, which was published in 1975. In 2002 he coauthored a book on the Italian banking system with Giorgio Calcagnini of the University of Urbino. In recent years his research has been concentrated on Italian banks and on U.S. monetary policy and the evolution of U.S. financial markets and institutions since 1945.

Peter C. Hobart
     • The Industrial Hobarts

Harold M. Hochman
     • Redistribution Through Public Choice
     • Economic Behavior and Distributional Choice

After Yale, including graduate education and some teaching, I embarked, in 1962, on a peripatetic forty-year career as an economist. Early on, I worked in Washington, primarily at ‘think tanks,’ and taught at the University of Virginia; subsequently, I spent a quarter century at the City University of New York and, finally, Lafayette College (from which I retired, in 2003, as the Simon Professor of Political Economy). Some of the best years, however, reflected short-term appointments, free of academic wrangling.

Professionally, my legacy, such as it may be, resides in my students and papers I authored or co-authored. A few of these papers, I’d like to believe, changed the way social scientists think about public policy, at least a bit. Here, I note four publications, included in the two edited books on display. The most cited, called ‘Pareto Optimal Redistribution’ (1969), develops the argument, residing in utility interdependence (people’s benevolent concern for each other’s welfare) that the twin criteria of economic efficiency and distributional equity (‘social justice’) are not distinct; employed to judge states of the world, this implies that economics is inextricably intertwined with political philosophy and other disciplines. A second paper argues that rule changes, to be fair, must not only consider end-results, but their transitional effects on different people. The other two papers discuss the tax treatment of charitable contributions and addictive behavior.

Talbott W. Huey
     • (with Richard H. Solomon) A Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party: a Feast of Images of the Maoist Transformation of China

Pamela Hull (widow of Paul J. Hull)
     • Where's My Bride?

He was too big to die, I thought. Much too big; and yet, it happened. My husband Paul died in the early evening of August 13, 2001. Our daughter’s birthday is August 11, so perhaps he waited those two extra days for her sake. It was something he would think of. As the months passed, I began to have a strong need to fully describe Paul’s character. One couldn’t grasp his masterful energy, or reach out and touch it, but there it was, and its sweet enfolding elevated our consciousness to a kind of magnificent grandeur. The, with a gentle descent, riveted us to our physical and emotional worlds. Paul was a child-king with a mysterious and powerful inner life, and external adornments and huge talents that I can only call, beguiling. Easily, astonishing. So I did this. I wrote about him. I wrote about Paul.

David A. Johnson
     • Planning the Great Metropolis: The 1929 Regional Plan of New York and its Environs
     • The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program: The Transformation of an Institution and its Mission

My interest in urban and regional planning began at Yale thanks to an undergraduate course in the School of Architecture. I went on to graduate work in planning at Yale and, later, at Cornell. One of my first professional positions was with the Regional Plan Association in New York where I worked on the Second Regional Plan for the New York Metropolitan Region (1968). The Regional Plan Association was created to carry out the recommendations of the earlier 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. Naturally I was curious about the impact of that plan on New York and the surrounding area. How much of it was carried out? Did it influence the work of Robert Moses? What lessons might we learn from this plan? My conclusions were published as Planning the Great Metropolis: The 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs (London: E&F Spon, 1996).

A more recent co-authored book in the field of regional planning (The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program: The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission, Aelred J. Gray and David A. Johnson. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005) examines the origins and history of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a planning and development agency. It covers the history and impact of TVA on its seven-state region and the narrowing of TVA’s focus to become primarily an electric utility.

Gerald Jonas
     • Dancing
     • Stuttering
     • The Circuit Riders

If I had to sum up my writing career in a single word, it would be ‘generalist.’ From my days as a reporter with the old (pre-Hearst) Boston Herald, where I covered murders and fires and health and education, I have never felt comfortable specializing in one subject or area. As a New Yorker staff writer I wrote about topics ranging from basketball to brain science, while more or less simultaneously interviewing stage, film and television stars for the New York Times culture section and reviewing science fiction for the Sunday Times Book Review.

My books reflect a similar inability to specialize. Besides the three on exhibit, I have published On Doing Good: The Quaker Experiment, a case study of non-violent social action; North American Trees and Visceral Learning: Toward A Science of Self-Control, which examined the potential of biofeedback. I’m currently at work on a novel, which is set in a world both like and unlike our own.

Robert H. Joost
     • Automobile Insurance and No-Fault Law (2nd ed.)

In 1971, I testified before the Senate Commerce Committee as a whistleblower on efforts by the American Trial Lawyers Association to defeat no-fault automobile insurance legislation wherever it was introduced. I lost my job, but I never lost my belief in the greater fairness and economic efficiency of the no-fault system. Asked to update the standard legal reference on the subject, I published Automobile Insurance and No-Fault Law, 2d, in 1992 and produced annual supplements for the next nine years. By then, Parkinson’s disease put an end to my writing on, but not my interest in, no-fault.

C. Brian Kelly
     • Best Little Stories from World War II
     • Best Little Stories from the White House
     • Best Little Stories from the Civil War

After 20 years as a newspaper reporter (last stop, the Washington Star), I became founding editor of Military History, World War II and other historical magazines and began teaching journalism at the University of Virginia. In 1989 I self-published the book Best Little Stories from World War II, an anecdotal history that led to a Best Little Stories series now grown to eight in all, published by Cumberland House Publishing of Nashville, Tennessee. The WWII book, meanwhile, has been re-published also by Barnes & Noble and in Poland. My wife Ingrid writes about the women from the historical period covered in each book. Between us, we have seven children and fourteen grandchildren. No longer writing a column for Military History magazine, but still teaching, still working on our books...

Joel S. Kovel
     • White Racism: A Psychohistory
     • History and Spirit
     • Red Hunting of the Promised Land
     • The Enemy of Nature
     • Overcoming Zionism

Joel Kovel began writing his first book, White Racism (1971), in the midst of the existential and moral crisis induced by serving as a psychiatrist in the Vietnam War. All of his subsequent work has followed in this path, of seeking radical comprehension and a transformative vision in response to a pathological civilization. This common thread runs through work as varied as The Complete Guide to Therapy (1976), The Age of Desire (1981), Against the State of Nuclear Terror (1984), In Nicaragua (1988), The Radical Spirit (1989), History and Spirit (1991), Red-Hunting in the Promised Land (1994), The Enemy of Nature (2002), and Overcoming Zionism (2007). Future work will include an intellectual autobiography, a large-scale philosophical exploration into the relations between humanity and nature, and a study of the chief influence on his thought, William Blake, whose genius he found in this very library whilst escaping from his assigned studies.

Frank C. Lin
     • Elementary FORTRAN
     • Structured BASIC for Mini and Microcomputers
     • First Degree Murder

I recommend to my classmates 1) the section on playing Mahler's Fifth Symphony using the BASIC language in my book, Structured BASIC for Mini- and Microcomputers; 2) the other computer science book on Elementary FORTRAN, I do not recommend you read it at all; and 3) the play, First Degree Murder is not a real murder but it is First Degree. I have free copies for anyone who would like to read it. Unfortunately my ‘career’ in writing came to an end after I moved to the Eastern Shore.

Donald F. Melhorne, Jr.
     • The History of Ohio Law (2 vols.)
     • Lest We Be Marshall'd: Judicial Powers and Politics in Ohio, 1806-1812

John G. Miller
     • The Battle to Save the Houston
     • The Bridge of Dong Ha
     • The Co-Vans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam

John Miller also is the author of Punching Out (St. Martin's Press, 1994) and a contributing author to The Marines (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1998) and Commandants of the Marine Corps (Naval Institute Press, 2004). His writing awards include: the General Wallace M. Greene Award (Marine Corps Historical Foundation, 1989), Naval Institute Author of the Year (1990), and two lifetime achievement awards – the Distinguished Service Award (Marine Corps Heritage Foundation 1998) and the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award (Navy League of the United States, 2004).

James W. Nelson
     • Early Solana Beach

Eric D. Pace
     • Any War Will Do
     • Saberlegs
     • Nightingale

I found time to do some book writing while I was a reporter partly because I was given extra time off, now and then, after doing some particularly demanding news coverage. While I was a New York Times correspondent based in Teheran from 1974 to 1977 I kept two notebooks in my jacket pockets, one for news to report to the Times, the other for local color to enrich Nightingale, the heist novel set in Iran, that I planned to write. I didn't win any awards from the book-publishing world, but later my ego was massaged by the vigorous promotional messages that publishers put on my books’ covers and dust jackets.

Robert D. Pelton
     • The Trickster in West Africa
     • Circling the Sun
     • Poustinia

After receiving my doctorate from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 1974 my student days ended at last, as did my academic ‘career,’ such as it was, though I did teach at the Divinity School for a quarter in 1976. However, I spent the next two years revising my dissertation, The Trickster in West Africa: A Study in Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight, for publication by the University of California Press. Thanks to an excellent editor, I learned more about writing clearly than at any time since I was blessed as a sophomore at Yale to take a seminar on classical civilization at Saybrook under Professor Alfred Bellinger. During that time I was living at Madonna House as a ‘poustinik,’ a semi-eremetical way of life. Each month I wrote a piece on the Catholic liturgy for our newspaper, Restoration. In the mid-1980s I collected and revised these pieces, and they were published by the Pastoral Press as Circling the Sun: Meditations on Christ in Liturgy and Time. As I told a friend, “Some came rather easily, and others were very hard work, but a few were pure delight.”

Jerome J. Pollitt
     • Art and Experience in Classical Greece
     • Ancient View of Greek Art
     • Art in the Hellenistic Age

Millard B. Prisant
     • Antiques Roadshow Collectibles
     • Antiques Roadshow Primer

I’d been an antiques dealer and art appraiser for almost thirty years when the British magazine, The World of Interiors (Condé Nast) offered me a job writing features on design. Currently, I’m the American editor of that magazine and have had years of pleasure writing about or interviewing everyone from Julianne Moore and Bill Blass to J.D. McClatchy. In my spare time, I’ve written for The New York Times, New York Magazine and Martha Stewart Living (yes), among others. Incredibly, my encyclopedia, Antiques Roadshow Primer, sold 750,000 copies (those were lovely coattails to ride on) and I’m working these days on a book for Penguin-Viking called Good, Better, Best. I also do a monthly column for House Beautiful magazine, and if you consider that I dropped out of Barnard to marry Millard, have a baby and be a housewife, I’ve had – wow – such luck!

Robert S. Rosefsky
     • Personal Finance (8th ed.)

This college textbook became a 28-year publishing marathon. I was contacted in 1975 by John Wiley & Sons, one of the nation's major textbook publishers. They knew of my work as a syndicated columnist and broadcast commentator on personal financial matters, and they combined those crafts to create both a textbook and a college credit television course. The first editions came out in 1977. Starting with the sixth edition in 1999, the text was updated bi-weekly on an internet site in conjunction with the Wall St. Journal. The television course was distributed nationally by PBS, and it won a few Emmys along the way. The eighth and final edition of the book was published in 2003. Time to retire. I've published 12 other books, but this was my hallmark, and I took great satisfaction in knowing that I had taught so many so much over the years.

Harold S. Russell
     • Time to Become Barbarian: The Extraordinary Life of General Horace Capron

Prior to my retirement at the turn of the millennium, I resolved to write a biography of a little known 19th century American, General Horace Capron. Controversial then and even today, Capron has been described as the Edwards Deming of his day who disappeared into semi-obscurity after spending four years in Japan, just after the Meiji restoration, advising the government on how to develop the large northern island of Hokkaido. As a total doofus who can’t type even today and who had not written a long and serious non-legal paper since senior year at Yale, this presented a series of challenges, most of which I failed more than once, but it forced me to educate myself on a series of topics such as: the Civil War (among other things I read Shelby Foote’s 14 volumes), John Hunt Morgan, W.T. Sherman, the American Revolution, the Wars of 1812 and with Mexico, the life and times of President Zachary Taylor and much more. I visited Utica for several days, Peoria, Kenosha, Laurel, Maryland, the battlefields of the south and Andersonville, and of course Japan, including a week in Sapporo where Capron’s statue stands today. It was a great adventure.

Andre Schiffen
     • The Business of Books
     • A Political Education

The Business of Books appeared in 2000 and tried to show how publishing had changed within my lifetime. It uses my own career as a basic narrative but includes a lot of research on publishing history in the U.S. and abroad. It has now appeared in 24 different countries, showing that the issues are similar everywhere, largely due to globalization. This paperback is an updated version that brings us close to the present.

A Political Education, Coming of Age in NY and Paris is a far more personal book though it tries to deal with the political changes that have occurred in the U.S. since l945. This time I use a much more personal narrative but try to place my account in the general context of our overall history. There is a chapter on Yale, with which many of you may disagree, as well as a linked chapter on the way McCarthy affected us all, including our education at Yale. (How many of us knew there was an FBI office on campus? I certainly didn’t.) The book has just come out in the U.S. and in France and will appear in Spain and elsewhere, but nowhere as many places as the publishing book. I've written/edited a couple of other books but those have only appeared in Europe (not in English), where I now spend half my time.

Ray Sipherd
     • Down on the Farm With Grover
     • The Courtship of Peggy McCoy
     • The Devil's Hawk

Ray Sipherd is a writer active in a variety of forms. After graduating from Yale, he joined CBS Television and in the early 1960s became a Writer-Producer for WNET/Thirteen in New York. In 1969, he was one of the original writers and creators of the children’s television series, Sesame Street. During his seventeen years with Sesame Street he wrote seven children’s books featuring Jim Henson’s Muppets. He also wrote the children’s book, The White Kite, published by Richard Jackson’s Bradbury Press.

As an adult author he wrote the novel, The Courtship of Peggy McCoy, as well as a collection of holiday short stories, The Christmas Store. He is also the creator of a mystery series that includes Dance of the Scarecrows, The Audubon Quartet and The Devil’s Hawk. As a playwright and lyricist he wrote the book and was co-author of the lyrics for a musical adaptation of the Russian play, He Who Gets Slapped, which will have its west coast premiere in Los Angeles next year.

Robert J. Smith
     • The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise: 1850-1970

Intrigued that the Ecole Normale Superieure’s socialist librarian mentored students who became professors, politicians, journalists, and public philosophers, I wrote a book – The Ecole Normale Superieure and the Third Republic (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982) – which focused on Normale’s ideological climate and the social origins and careers of over 3200 normaliens. Recruiting mostly from modest families of secondary teachers, Normale prepared its graduates to teach in France’s best lycees, faculties, or grandes ecoles. But some, like Jean Jaures, Leon Blum, Edouard Herriot, Raymond Aron, or Jean-Paul Sartre, had a broader influence in the public sphere. Yale’s own Henri Peyre, of our generation, was a normalien of the 1920s. I chose next to study a family enterprise in Grenoble: Bouchayer et Viallet. Access to Bouchayer family papers as well as the firm’s archives allowed me the rare privilege of studying a unique but quite typical French institution that spanned four generations.

Christian R. Sonne
     • Tuxedo Park: The Historic Houses

Since establishing my office in Tuxedo almost twenty years ago, I have been researching the history of the area, and the creation of the community of Tuxedo Park by Pierre Lorillard in 1886. The new development rapidly became a successful upper class exurb, only to go downhill rapidly after 1929. There is an astonishing collection of both shingle style cottages of the early period and beaux-arts mansions of the early Twentieth Century.

In September 2005 Chiu yin Hempel, a resident of Tuxedo Park and member of the Board of Architectural Review, who has had twenty years in the publishing business, approached me as then Town Historian about co-writing and publishing a book on the architectural heritage of Tuxedo Park. This would feature the attributes of about 60 houses of different periods and styles, along with some history of their original owners, if possible.

After raising the requisite funds, we engaged a first-rate photographer, two residents who were professors of social and architectural history, and a local architect. I feel extremely lucky to have been able to make a major contribution to a significant work, which I could never have completed on my own.

Jonathan P. Swinchatt
     • The Winemaker's Dance; Exploring Terroir in the Napa Valley

In 1988, on a trip to China and Tibet (I was shooting footage for a video on the geology of Tibet) a geologist/winemaker friend suggested I make a movie on geology and wine in California. That led to the video Earth Nectar on geology and wine in the Napa Valley, released in 1990, produced with David Howell, a friend and former student from the days I taught at Colgate. In 2000, the University of California Press approached us to do a book on geology and wine in Napa, which turned into The Winemaker’s Dance. While writing the book, I interviewed some 90 winemakers and winegrowers; two asked if I would be interested in doing geologic studies of vineyards. Not knowing quite what that meant, I said yes. I take on two to four projects a year, mostly in Napa, but now also in Spain. I also write articles periodically for The World of Fine Wine.

Josiah Thompson
     • Six Seconds in Dallas
     • Kierkegaard
     • Gumshoe

Six Seconds in Dallas is a study of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Using all the evidence available in 1967, it concluded four shots, four hits from three shooters in six seconds. Eleven years later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded four shots, three hits from two shooters in a little over six seconds. More importantly, the House Committee confirmed a shot from the exact location on the knoll identified earlier by Six Seconds.

Kierkegaard is a critical biography of the Danish thinker, Soren Kierkegaard. Do we all have some “original project” that we rehearse again and again in our lives? The book argues that we do and that in Kierkegaard's case the project was “refusal.” Andy Kner ’57 designed the elegant book jacket.

Gumshoe is a non-fiction memoir describing how a middle-aged college professor left academia behind and became a PI in San Francisco. It's been described as “a true crime classic.... The best book ever written about the life of a private eye.”

Calvin M. Trillin
     • 25 books (titles not provided)

I once wrote that the average shelf-life of a book in the United States is somewhere between milk and yoghurt. Any book that lasts longer than that probably contains preservatives. So, even though the twenty-five books displayed here might seem like a lot of books, I can assure you that very few of them were available to the public longer than a tub of Dannon Low Fat Vanilla.

I can also assure you that there is more money to be made in yogurt. The publishing industry is mostly in New York, and some years ago I brought up the possibility of regulating it with New York City ordinances – for instance, an ordinance stating, ‘The author’s advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.’ The publishers would have threatened to move to New Jersey, but I knew better: there was no decent place to have lunch in New Jersey.

As for the wide variety of the books in this display – nonfiction, novels, attempts at humor, ‘deadline poetry,’ memoir – the press release from my publisher says that I’m ‘remarkably diverse.’ The other way of looking at it, of course, is that I never quite got my act together.

J. Shelby Tucker, Jr.
     • Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma
     • Burma: The Curse of Independence

The genesis of both of these books was a conversation in 1962 with one Hermann the German. We were hitchhiking along the Thai-Burmese border, walking and talking as tramps do, and planned a kind of mythical journey assisted by wild but genial hill people who would smuggle us from village to village. The vision of this mythical journey languished for twenty-seven years, until 1989, when I trekked from China through the Kachin hill country to India accompanied by a young Swede and units of two rebel armies. Our route led through places that had never been surveyed on the ground, and, on reaching India, we were arrested for spying, but we were neither cartographers, anthropologists nor spies. To have walked across Burma for the purpose of writing a book would have spoiled both the adventure and the book. Our motive was simply adventure.

George J. Vojta
     • Beyond Human Scale

Beyond Human Scale was written consequent to my assignment to craft Citicorp’s (now Citigroup) ten-year business strategy for the 80s. Eli Ginzberg, then an active professor at Columbia, served as a consultant to me on this project. In the late 70s/early 80s many financial services firms were rapidly diversifying their business. The larger firms such as Citicorp required complex organizations to facilitate the development and introduction of new products and services. Over time, these ‘matrix’ organizations became excessively cumbersome and dysfunctional. A major theme of the Citicorp strategy for the 80s was to streamline the organization into a new operationally efficient model. Beyond Human Scale describes and justifies this experience. Citicorp’s organizational actions were widely emulated; the new organizational design lasted for twenty years and contributed to Citicorp’s evolution to the pre-eminent, most profitable financial institution (and in some years corporation) in the world.

Allen Wardwell
     • Tangible Visions

Arthur F. Wertheim
     • The New York Little Renaissance
     • Radio Comedy
     • Vaudeville Wars

Stephen M. Wittenberg
     • A Clinician's Companion: A Study Guide for Effective and Human Patient Care

My publishing career began in the publish-or-perish world of academic medicine. I am happy to report that I did not perish. Most of my papers were in basic cardiac electrophysiology. The high point came in a solo group of experiments published in Circulation Research and entitled ‘Chronotropic Effects of Ouabain and Heart Rate on Canine Atrium in Vivo.’ Does that excite you? Well, the experiments were the key to a very large grant request. A famous site reviewer quipped, ‘There are only two people in the room who give a damn about what you just said, you and me.’ I got the grant.

After a few years, I realized that I wanted to take care of patients in the trenches. My real love was practicing and teaching the ‘people part’ of medicine. This led to an invitation to co-author this little book, A Clinician’s Companion, which is basically an effort to write about the human challenges of patient care. Little Brown published it. It is an honor to have it included in such distinguished company.

Peter M. Wolf
     • Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America
     • The Future of the City: New Directions in Urban Planning
     • Land in America: Its Value, Use and Control

I got interested in the physical format of America after writing a dissertation about the beginning of modern city planning in Paris, my final work preparatory to earning a doctorate. The year abroad turned into my first published book, Eugene Henard and the Beginning of Urbanism in France 1900-1914 (1969). Then I began to look at cities as places dominated by the appalling power of the automobile. The Future of the City: New Directions in Urban Planning (1974) and The Evolving City: Urban Design Proposals by Ulrich Franzen and Paul Rudolph (1974), as well as a Whitney Museum (New York) catalogue about the New York State Urban Development Corporation called Another Chance for Cities (1970) took up that theme.

During the late 1970s and 1980s, I turned my attention to a broad spectrum of questions about land in this country, and published Land in America: Its Value, Use and Control (1981). Eventually, I wanted to find out what was happening to the fast growing and overdeveloping most desirable towns being threatened by what I called the ‘fifth migration,’ and so wrote Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America (1999). After 1970, my writing became a part-time affair relegated to weekends and nights while I got accustomed to being a father and conducting a daytime career first as an urbanist and eventually as an investment manager.

William H. Wrean
     • The Demand for Business Loan Credit

The Demand for Business Loan Credit represents my modest attempt to elevate the analysis used in Money and Banking scholarship from the ‘accounting type tee accounts’ that everybody used back then into the functional relationships that were already being used in the realm of ‘price theory.’ This demand function with its related supply function seemed to me to be the very central constructs for all of monetary policy. Needless to say, a few eyebrows were raised back then when I referred to an interest rate as the price for the use of one dollar of purchasing power over time.

‘Publishing or perishing’ was really secondary to my love of learning, of discovery, of scholarship, of teaching! Incidentally, Yale University Press offered to publish it before D.C. Heath made their offer, but Yale's timetable was not timely enough to meet my ‘perish’ needs.

Clarence E. Zimmerman II
     • Techniques of Patient Care