CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
The New Wealth of Nations
Surjit S. Bhalla *72 *77 argues that the new wealth of the world is education, which has allowed for income…
Readers’ Liberation: The Literary Agenda
Readers’ Liberation (Oxford University Press) offers arguments for the importance of literature and reading in the age of the internet…
The Railroad and the Art of Place
Over six winters in the 1990s, David Kahler *62 and his wife traveled to the coalfields in West Virginia and…
Our Nation’s Capital: Pro Bono Public Ideas
In Our Nation’s Capital (International Arts and Artists), architect Arthur Cotton Moore ’58 *60 presents his ideas for enhancing the…
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
The 19th century saw huge expansion in cities and revolutions in transportation and science, accompanied by a changing intellectual landscape…
I Am Nobody: Confronting the Sexually Abusive Coach Who Stole My Life
Greg Gilhooly ’86 wanted to play professional hockey, but that drive was stolen from him when at 15, he fell…
The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Transforming progressive ideas into practice, the French military was one of the few institutions to actualize Enlightenment theories. The Military…
Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
During World War II, there was significant Japanese sympathy among African Americans who thought that Japan’s superpower status undermined white…
Dream Things True
Marie Marquardt ’94’s 2015 novel Dream Things True (St. Martin’s Press) is being re-released in paperback. Marquardt tells the story…
Make a List: How A Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts
In Make a List (Eerdmans), Marilyn McEntyre *84 goes beyond the shopping list, showing readers how listing deeper things such…
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
Ibn Khaldun, who lived from 1332-1406, was an influential mind in the Arab world. Through his new book, Ibn Khaldun…
The Princeton Eating Clubs
The Princeton Eating Clubs (Princeton Landmark Publications) investigates the history and origins of Princeton’s eating clubs, as well as focusing…
City of Forests, City of Farms: Sustainability Planning for New York City's Nature
City of Forests, City of Farms (Cornell University Press) is Lindsay K. Campbell ’02’s history of recent forestry and agriculture…
The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something: New and Selected Poems
Joy Ladin *00, a transgender poet, collects her previously published work alongside new poems about politics and culture in The…
The Glitch
The Glitch (Doubleday) is a humorous novel following the life of Shelley Stone, a Silicon Valley CEO, mother of two…
Something Wonderful: Rogers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution
Todd S. Purdum ’82 delves into the partnership of Rogers and Hammerstein, the two very different men who developed serious…
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Tribe of Mentors (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a collection of advice gathered from the world’s most successful billionaires, athletes, and…
Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy
Despite the violence and feuds that plagued medieval communes in Florence, Italy, society was preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance…
