By Peh Shing Huei. World Scientific Publishing Company, October 2018. Available on Amazon. Goh Chok Tong MA ’67 was an improbable Prime Minister for an unlikely country. Except for an imposing height most unusual in this part of the world, he was an ordinary man. Tall Order tells the… Continue reading »
By Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall. Twelve Publishing, Oct. 2018. Available on Amazon. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt ’58 and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA’s counterintelligence office and Gennady… Continue reading »
By James A. Case ’41. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, October 2017. At the age of ninety seven, Honolulu attorney James H. Case has authored Hawaii Lawyer: Lessons in Law and Life from a Six Decade Career. Case was born on Kauai, Territory of Hawaii in 1920 and attended… Continue reading »
By Philip Palmedo ’56. Peter E. Randall Publisher, October 2017. Available on Amazon. Roland Palmedo, Williams Class of 1917, was a pioneer in developing recreational skiing in the U.S., founding Mt. Mansfield Lift Co., which built Stowe, Vermont’s first chairlift and created the Mad River… Continue reading »
By Dale Schwie. Nodin Press, July 2017. Available on Amazon. The author tells the story of Williams alumnus Herbert W. Gleason (Class of 1877) who abandoned a career as a Congregational minister in midlife and went on to become one of the most distinguished landscape photographers… Continue reading »
By Christoph Irmscher. Yale University Press, June 2017. Available on Amazon. Class of 1905 alumnus Max Eastman (1883–1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century. While researching this masterful work, acclaimed biographer Christoph Irmscher was granted unprecedented access… Continue reading »
By David Coplan ’70 with photographs by Oscar Gutierrez. Jacana Media, May 2017. In 1994, Brad and Paige Holmes opened a small, live-music venue in the bohemian suburb of Melville in Johannesburg. They called it Bassline, which very soon became synonymous with cigarette smoke, great jazz and nights… Continue reading »
J. David Hoeveler. University of Wisconsin Press, July 2016. Available on Amazon. A philosopher, theologian, and sociologist, Bascom (1827–1922) deeply influenced a generation of students at the University of Wisconsin, including La Follette and Van Hise. Hoeveler documents how Bascom drew concepts from German idealism,… Continue reading »
Edited by Suzanne Saunders Taylor. Xlibris. June 2014. After the passing of George Sole ’31, Edma May Saunders Sole wrote to her late husband’s Williams College roommate, Rev. Bonnell Spencer ’31, an Episcopalian Monk. This collection of letters follows their resulting 20-year relationship. Continue reading »
By Jim Hartley ’60. Infinity Publishing. April 2013. It All Began on Halloween is the autobiography of James R. (Jim) Hartley ’60, born on Oct. 31, 1938, in Muncie, Ind., and now living in Phoenix, Ariz. Continue reading »
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