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Richard Mather ’35
(Edwin Mellon Press) This is a double-biography of both Richard Mather and his father, William Arnot Mather 1896. The elder Mather was a missionary in China, where he created a system of transcribing the Scriptures into Chinese phonetic script. The younger...
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C.S. Lovelace ’44
(Beam Ends Publishing) This book looks into the 17th century history of New York. It examines the lives of the first two governors, Richard Nicolls and Francis Lovelace, by imaging fictional back-stories for them that would lead them to their later...
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Sgt. Philip R. Herzig ’46, edited by Helene P. Herzig
(Mixed Media Memoirs) After her husband, Philip Herzig ’46, died in 2004, Helene Herzig discovered letters he wrote to his parents during his service in the war in her attic. In those letters, he details his life during basic training and his...
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Richard S. Armstrong ’46
(Wipf and Stock) For years, Armstrong was intimately involved with baseball, playing it at Princeton and in the minors, and then working in the front office of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Baltimore Orioles. He organized the first public relations...
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Hazard Adams ’47
(McFarland) This book discusses the writings of Blake, who was not only a poet but also a commentator on his own art and art in general. Topics include Black’s comments on his predecessors, contemporaries, critics, and artistic intentions. This study also...
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Hazard Adams ’47
(McFarland) This book is about William Blake — famed poet, painter, and printmaker — and his annotations of other writers’ works. The book looks at the entire collection of annotations, which covers topics including art, poetry, theology, madness, and...
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John J. Pohanka ’49
(The Wagner Society of Washington, D.C.) The author, a life-long student of philosophy and founding member of the Washington Wagner Society, explores the kinship between religious mysticism and the transformative experience of listing to...
