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"Swimming Lessons at Pleasant Pond," from Sumner 200. |
Fishing with the Presidents: An Anecdotal History, by Bill Mares '62 (Stackpole, $14.95, paper). A fishing odyssey beginning with Washington and ending with Bush, illustrated with photographs and political cartoons. Mares, a former Vermont legislator, asked to pick which president he'd most like to have gone fishing with, picks Cleveland, who observed: "In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune-chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen."
Radical Marketing: From Harvard to Harley, Lessons from Ten That Broke the Rules and Made It Big, by Sam Hill and Glenn Rifkin (HarperBusiness, $25). A marketing consultant and a business correspondent for the New York Times write in a chapter devoted to the Harvard Business School that it "not only created the market for graduate schools of business, but after ninety years it continues to reign as the most successful and respected brand in its class." Faculty and deans achieved the heights through nontraditional marketing, also practiced by the subject of the succeeding chapter, Jim Koch '71, J.D.-M.B.A. '78, founder of the Boston Beer Company, brewers of Sam Adams lager.
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, by Douglas Stone, J.D. '84, Bruce Patton '77, J.D. '81, and Sheila Heen, J.D. '93 (Viking, $24.95). How to ask for a raise, end a relationship, apologize to your spouse, or say no to your boss. All the authors are with the Harvard Negotiation Project, Stone as associate director, Patton as deputy director, and Heen as associate. These three advice-givers have assisted people ranging from the various parties to the negotiations on constitutional transition in South Africa, to schoolteachers in Medellín, Colombia, to the conflict-managers of Harvard College. The former dean of students, Archie Epps, B.D. '61, G '64, writes in a jacket blurb, "I recommend this book to students, parents, professors, administrators, and leaders of any kind."
White Coat: Becoming a Doctor at Harvard Medical School, by Ellen Lerner Rothman, M.D. '98 (Morrow, $25). A vivid chronicle of the author's four years at the medical school. Some of the material appeared as the cover article in the March-April 1996 issue of this magazine.
Sumner 200: Portrait of a Small Maine Town, with an historical essay by George R. Healy and black-and-white photographs and interviews by Mark Silber '70 (Town of Sumner, 633 Main Street, Sumner, Maine 04292, $25 postpaid, paper). A bicentennial look at a town in the foothills of western Maine. The bigger part of this book consists of 85 strong pictures by Silber--a photograph-er, anthropologist, and farmer--of a cross-section of the populace, who speak in interviews about their lives and the community.
Dialogues and Discoveries: James Levine: His Life and His Music, by Robert C. Marsh, Ed.D. '51 (Scribner, $27.50). A critical, biographical, sometimes autobiographical study of the eminent conductor and artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera, this book is bound to please opera lovers. Marsh was for 37 years chief music critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, and has been talking to the maestro of the Met for 25.
Viva México! by Antonio Haas '49, with photographs by Nicholas Sapieha and Bob Schalkwijk (M.T. Train/Scala Books, distributed by Antique Collectors Club, $60). "The image most foreigners have of Mexico is like a sculpture by Henry Moore, strong and expressive but full of holes in vital places," writes Haas. Winner of Mexico's National Journalism Prize, Haas aims here to reconstruct his native country. His history bursts with political and religious intrigue; heroes and villains spring up on every page. He arranges matters so as to take readers on a state-by-state tour of the country, making the book ideal reading for studious tourists. It is lavishly illustrated.
Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth to Modern Baseball, by Burt Solomon '70 (Free Press, $25). This, writes Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D. '68, IOP '91, bred a Dodgers fan herself, is "a rousing good story, a rich tapestry of charming rogues, hustlers, and gritty ballparks that brings to sparkling life the game of baseball as it was played a century ago." The title comes from an utterance by the Orioles' best hitter, Wee Willie Keeler: "Keep your eye clear, and hit 'em where they ain't."