CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
A History of Charitable Gift Planning: How Gift Annuities Shaped American Philanthropy
A History of Charitable Gift Planning (self-published) explores the evolution of a national system that supplies billions of dollars for…
Betrayal at Bethesda: The Intertwined Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy
In 1949, former secretary of defense James Forrestal died from a fall off the 16th floor of a building in…
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
We know a lot about the victims of the Great Terror — those who were arrested from 1937-38 by the…
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge (University of Toronto Press) is a biography of a group of men who melded Soviet…
Go, Went, Gone
Richard is a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin and one day visits African refugees staging a hunger strike…
Sex and Secularism
In Sex and Secularism (Princeton University Press), Joan Wallach Scott h’12 challenges the notion that secularism is a guarantee of…
Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank
Yael Berda *14 was a human rights lawyer in Jerusalem, representing Palestinian clients trying to obtain labor permits to enter…
Our Kind of People: America’s Black Upper Class
Lawrence Otis Graham ’83, one of the country’s most well-known speakers on race and class, spent six years interviewing the…
The Magician’s Tale
The Magician’s Tale (iUniverse) is the story of the Frankel family, who lived in the Lodz Ghetto in 1940s Poland…
Einstein’s Mistake: A Lyric Poem in Prose
Einstein's Mistake by Jan Andrew Buck ’67 explains, for the general audience, how modern theoretical physics can explain the nature…
Unsub
Unsub (Dutton) by Meg Gardiner is a psychological thriller inspired by the Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to…
God in the Here and Now
Author Elizabeth Dallas McLean ’88 spent most of her life as an environmental litigator advocating for the law, environment, and…
Stone Hill in Baltimore: Stories from a Cotton Mill Village
During the early 1900s, in Baltimore, there was no running water in the neighborhood of Stone Hill, let alone telephones…
As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance
In As Terrorism Evolves (Cambridge University Press), Seib addresses how terrorism has increased in severity during the period between the…
Invisible Mind: Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanization
Lasana Haris takes a social neuroscience approach to explain how people can take part in radically motivated violence and then…
Benched: Abortion, Terrorists, Drones, Crooks, Supreme Court, Kennedy, Nixon, Demi Moore, and Other Tales from the Life of a Federal Judge
Judge Jon Newman ’53, now in his 45th year in the federal judiciary, writes candidly about what a judge really…
Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics
As Europe’s Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics. Muslim views on religion, tradition, and…
