Six Guys from Hackensack: Coming of Age in the Real New Jersey

(Infinity Publishing) When Kevin Clermont ’67 delivered the salutatory address at his Princeton graduation, he called himself “the barefoot boy from Hackensack” and cited Woody Allen in Latin. This speech, and life at Princeton in the 1960s, is one of the subject’s of Krisch’s book, which follows a group of friends who grew up together in a New Jersey suburb. Kirsch is a professor of history at Manhattan College, and Clermont is a professor at the Cornell University Law School.