By James L. Nolan Jr., Chair and Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology. Harvard University Press, August 2020. After his father died, James L. Nolan Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a… Continue reading »
Co-authored by Daniel R. Coquillette ’66. Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, May 2020. By the late nineteenth century, Harvard Law School had transformed legal education and become the preeminent professional school in the nation. But in the early 1900s, HLS came… Continue reading »
By Margaret C. Adler ’99 MA ’11, et al. Yale University Press, April 2020. Winslow Homer (1836–1910) and Frederic Remington (1861–1909) represent a distinct artistic strain of the American mythos: both were celebrated in their day as homegrown, self-taught artists whose work offered a… Continue reading »
By Michael Rosenblum ’77. Skyhorse, April 2020. Available on Amazon. Today, the average person spends an astonishing eight hours a day watching TV or videos online. Watching social media stories, movies, and TV is now our number one activity, outpacing everything else that we… Continue reading »
By Amanda Eyre Ward ’94. Ballantine Books, March 2020. Can four lost adults find the peace they’ve been seeking by reconciling their childhood aches and coming back together? The Jetsetters is an intelligent novel about the courage it takes to reveal our true selves,… Continue reading »
By David Lebovitz ’09. Ten Speed Press, March 2020. Lebovitz shares more than 160 recipes for trendy cocktails, quintessential apéritifs, café favorites, complementary snacks, and more. Continue reading »
By Margaret Walton ’80 (Pen name Margaret Kimberley). Truth to Power, February 2020. Available on Amazon. This book is an exploration of America’s relationship with race and black Americans through the lens of the presidents who are elected to represent and govern all of… Continue reading »
By Darra Goldstein, Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita. Ten Speed Press, February 2020. Available on Amazon. Through recipes, photos and essays, Professor Goldstein explores the heart of Russian food, and brings to life a portrait of the country’s people and its… Continue reading »
By Barbara Ernst Prey ’79. Barbara Prey Studio, January 2020. The book chronicles Massachusetts Museum of Art’s commission of the world’s largest watercolor, painted by Barbara Ernst Prey ’79. Continue reading »
By Maura Tumulty ’95. Oxford University Press, January 2020. If I were a better human being, that person’s voice wouldn’t sound so shrill to me. Many of us may have had such thoughts. They give voice to the worrying intuition that if we were… Continue reading »
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