The Sight Sickness (Posted on Nov. 17, 2009)

By Christine Faltz Grassman ’91

(iUniverse) Faced with an epidemic of “the white sickness” — an apparently contagious plague in which random citizens become blind — the government rounds up those afflicted, caging them like animals in lawless and inhumane quarantine facilities in this...

NILO Ha Tien: A Novel of Naval Intelligence in Cambodia (Posted on Nov. 17, 2009)

By HL Serra ’67

(AuthorHouse) In this work of historical fiction, Thomas Medici, a naval intelligence liaison (NILO) officer during the Vietnam War, is stationed on the Cambodia-Vietnam border in a small fishing district town called Ha Tien in 1970. Entering Cambodia on U.S....

Halakhic Man, Authentic Jew: Modern Expressions of Orthodox Thought from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits (Posted on Nov. 17, 2009)

By Ira Bedzow ’03

(Urim Publications) This book is a comparative study of the thoughts of two rabbis about what constitutes a model Jew and the understanding and presentation of Halakha in a modern age. Asserting that Modern Orthodox thought is simply orthodoxy...

The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life (Posted on Nov. 17, 2009)

By David Stark ’72

(Princeton University Press) Although many organizations devote substantial resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used for evaluating employee worth in the workplace, Starks argues that firms would often be better off if they allowed...

Braddock’s March: How the Man Sent to Seize a Continent Changed American History (Posted on Nov. 17, 2009)

By Thomas E. Crocker ’71

(Westholme Publishing) In 1755, Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock led the largest armed expeditionary force ever sent to North America. With orders from Great Britain to drive France completely out of the New World, the soldiers landed in Alexandria,...

Nothing Personal: The Vietnam War in Princeton 1965-1975 (Posted on Nov. 17, 2009)

By Lee Neuwirth ’55 *59

(BookSurge Publishing) Nothing Personal is the true account of Neuwirth’s years working for a controversial defense department organization — the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), located on Princeton University property — during the...

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