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Arts & CultureIn printBooks by Yale authors Memoir: A History “It is a Western, or possibly human, trait to want to tell others about one’s experiences, and people have done so in their various ways since time immemorial,” says Yagoda. In this entertaining look at a genre that has at least some of its written roots in the Old Testament—David’s Psalms were early tell-all autobiography—the author traces the development of an overwhelmingly popular genre and offers advice on how to tell truth from the memoirist’s fictions.
Milton’s Words In 1947, T. S. Eliot dismissed Milton’s use of the English language as “a perpetual sequence of original acts of lawlessness.” A half-century later, “we are free to admire Milton again,” says Patterson. Beginning with the poet’s use of the words “unlibidinous” and “indefatigable,” Patterson crafts an engaging analysis of “what Milton’s words look like when we acknowledge their freight of personal and political history.”
No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life Legalized discrimination based on race is history in this country, but, say the authors, complete equality remains elusive. “Many solutions have been proposed for healing these divisions, but education—and especially higher education—has traditionally been believed by most Americans to be an effective strategy,” Espenshade and Radford write. The thrust of their thorough assessment of elite colleges’ success in promoting social mobility: “We are not there yet.”
Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes Everyone knows the tale, perhaps even true, of the Greek mathematician Archimedes taking a bath and deducing how to find out, through water displacement, whether a gold crown had been adulterated with silver. But that was just one achievement of this polymath, who developed a kind of calculus nearly 2,000 years before Newton and Leibniz, and whom Galileo termed “superhuman.” Hirshfeld’s book is partly intellectual biography, partly a scholarly detective story about an ancient manuscript by Archimedes himself.
Judaism: A Way of Being “What is it about Judaism that is transfixing enough to have kept a brilliant, fractious, bickering, relentlessly skeptical people alive for three thousand years?” Gelernter creates four “image-themes” to build a novel, personal, and provocative explanation of the essence of an ancient religion. Through this effort to educate Jews and non-Jews alike about the “grand scheme,” Gelernter hopes also to halt the decline of the American Jewish community.
The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey
More books by Yale authors Charles Affron ’63PhD and Mirella Jona Affron Bromwell Ault ’49 Peter Baldwin ’78 C. Stephen Baldwin ’65JD Katharine P. Beals ’87 May R. Berenbaum ’75 Joseph Ciabattoni ’76MD Sheldon S. Cohen ’53 Tom Dolby ’98 Julia Schlam Edelman ’76 Shelley Fisher Fishkin ’71, ’77PhD Robert Gooding-Williams ’75, ’82PhD Jonathan Hafetz ’99JD and Mark P. Denbeaux, editors Terence Hawkins ’78 Gary L. Kaplan ’80 Mark S. Kende ’82 Randolph Kwei ’58 Rika Lesser ’74, translator Theodore R. Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management David Mickics ’88PhD Margarita A. Mooney ’95 Roy C. Nelson ’85 Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor Emerita of English David Pogue ’85 Laura Quinney ’80 Maxim D. Shrayer ’95PhD Debra Spark ’84 Paul E. Stepansky ’78PhD Ann Reynolds ’79 and Kenneth Wapner Gina Welch ’01 John V. Wylie ’64
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