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The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White “From the colonial era to the present, people of African ancestry have crossed the color line and faded into the world around them,” notes Vanderbilt professor Sharfstein. In this remarkable study of families who “passed”—including two brothers who attended Yale College in the 1850s, some 20 years before Edward Bouchet ’74, ’76PhD, became the first official black graduate—the historian shows that, even in the South, crossing over could be surprisingly easy.
A Village Life In her 11th collection of poems, former U.S. poet laureate Glück follows the imagined people and landscape of a Mediterranean village through a cycle of the seasons: young and old, birth and death. With exquisite precision, Glück’s poems exemplify what she calls the second kind of vision—“the seeing beyond things.”
George Washington’s America: A Biography through His Maps As a 16-year-old in 1748, George Washington began to learn surveying, a trade he would practice throughout his life. When Washington wasn’t commanding an army or running the fledgling country, he was making and collecting maps, many of which were incorporated into an atlas that Yale now owns. In an illustrated volume, historian Schecter uses 26 of the maps to tell a story about Washington’s lifelong “love affair with the land.”
Grant Wood: A Life When American Gothic debuted in Chicago in 1930, the painting of the grim farmer with his pitchfork, the morose woman, and the farmhouse became an instant classic. Its creator, Iowa’s Grant Wood, received international acclaim. Wood’s Midwestern-themed art carries “as genuine a U.S. stamp as a hotdog stand,” wrote a contemporary critic. But to see the artist as simply celebrating the heartland is a “basic misreading,” Evans argues. In this penetrating portrait, he brings Wood out of the closet and decodes his social critiques.
Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys through the Mind “Darwin would have loved Botox” is the startling opening line of this collection of essays by science writer Zimmer on how the brain “gives rise to our feelings, our memories, and our sense of ourselves.” This electronic book explores the neurobiology of topics as varied as blushing, desire, zoning out, and merging mind and machine—not to mention Botox, which allows us “to eavesdrop on the intimate conversation between the face and brain.”
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy “Having just died, I shouldn’t be starting my afterlife with a chicken sandwich,” writes Eire about his first American meal. In 1962, Eire was airlifted out of his native Cuba, as part of a U.S. government–supported program that brought the 11-year-old and 14,000 other children out of a place he bitterly calls “Castrolandia.” This memoir continues the story Eire began in his National Book Award–winning Waiting for Snow in Havana. The boy learns to cope with many things besides the American diet as he travels from Miami to Chicago to New Haven, “dying” and being reborn in his new homeland.
Marc E. Agronin ’91MD Clayton P. Alderfer ’62, ’66PhD Anne Applebaum ’86, editor Stuart Banner ’85 David Brakke ’87, ’92PhD Eva Brann ’51, ’56PhD Benjamin L. Carp ’98 Dick Cavett ’58 Adam Chalom ’97 Joshua Cohen ’04 David L. Duffy ’79 Cara Elliott ’73, ’74MFA Ann Fabian ’82PhD Mike F. Foster ’58 Paul Friedrich ’57PhD Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and of American Studies Maya Jasanoff ’02PhD Thomas L. Jeffers ’71Div, ’74Phd Blair Kamin ’84MEnvD Soo Yeon Kim ’98PhD Patrick Vinton Kirch ’75PhD Gray Kochhar-Lindgren ’82Div Lawrence Kramer ’72PhD Steven Andrew Light ’90 Rick A. Lopez ’01PhD Bradford Martin ’88 Christie McDonald ’69PhD and Susan Rubin Suleiman, editors David Edward McNamara ’78 Frank John Ninivaggi, Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry Carla L. Peterson ’76PhD Robert Allan Richardson ’69PhD Gabriella Safran ’90 Nick Salvato ’91 Peter T. Scardino ’67 and Judith Kelman Claudewell S. Thomas ’64MPH and Brenda McGlowan-Fellows Jim Trombetta ’80MPhil
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