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CORNELL: GLORIOUS TO VIEW by Carol Kammen (Cornell University Library). Kammen, a noted local historian and lecturer in history at Cornell, conveys the unique character of almost a century and a half of the Cornell experience through a blend of documents and images from the University Archives. She illustrates the university’s growth with more than 200 pages of text and over 100 photographs, and brings its history up to the present with a quote from President Jeffrey Lehman ’77.

TOMPKINS COUNTY MEMORIES by John Marcham ’50 (Pediment). In this volume assembled by the longtime editor of the Cornell Alumni News, hundreds of previously unpublished photographs from the DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County provide a window into more than 100 years of local history.

BARK & TIM by Audrey Glassman Vernick ’92 and Ellen Glassman Gidaro (Overmountain Press). A tale of childhood and friendship based on the paintings of Mississippi folk artist Tim Brown.

THE PRESIDENCY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE by Raymond Tatalovich and Thomas S. Engeman ’67 (Johns Hopkins University Press). Two professors of political science at Loyola University, Chicago, argue that three paradigms have dominated the history of presidential scholarship—Hamiltonianism, Jeffersonianism, and Progressivism —and conclude that today’s understanding of the presidency is characterized by a “new realism and old idealism.”

FAREWELL, GODSPEED edited by Cyrus M. Copeland, MBA ’90 (Harmony Books). A collection of eulogies of famous artists, politicians, scientists, writers, and entertainers that, in the words of Adlai Stevenson at Eleanor Roosevelt’s memorial, “attempt[s] to retrieve some memory, some human meaning, from the silence—something which is precious and gone.”

THE NIGHT COUNTRY by Stewart O’Nan, MFA ’92 (Farrar Straus & Giroux). In a nod to Ray Bradbury,O’Nan, the author of Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, tells the story of five teenagers and the aftermath of a small-town car crash on Halloween night, transforming the tragedy into the realm of myth.

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