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Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party The Republican Party once included both conservatives and moderates, but the two factions were what political journalist Theodore White called “fratricidal twins.” In a meticulously researched look at the last half century of the GOP, historian Kabaservice examines the virtual elimination of the moderate viewpoint. He argues that this “unprecedented transformation” may significantly alter, even derail, our political system and “ought to concern all Americans.”
Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740–1840 In eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century America, Philadelphia was the capital of scientific enterprise. But, as art historian Meyers and her collaborators show in the 14 essays of this exquisitely illustrated book, natural scientists did not toil in isolation. “Artistic and artisanal culture informed scientific interpretations of the natural world,” Meyers explains; science and art were a mutually reinforcing, two-way street.
The Annotated Emerson Nineteenth-century essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson was, during much of his lifetime, this country’s “greatest speaker and man of letters,” says Mikics, an expert on the man he calls “our Shakespeare.” Emerson’s words retain much of their power because the writer “addresses, and tries to heal, the split in American consciousness between high speculation and hard experience.” Mikics provides a generous selection of essays, poems, and journal entries, and he serves, through his annotations, as a fine guide.
Uncorked: My Journey through the Crazy World of Wine Blame it on blue granite. When one of Pasanella’s clients changed her mind, yet again, about countertop materials, the interior designer and writer decided to change careers. At 43, he left the business and eventually opened a wine shop in a Fulton Fish Market building he had renovated. In an entertaining memoir, complete with recipes, wine-tasting techniques, and toasts, Pasanella recounts his “midlife experiment.”
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA Shonnie Medina, a strong-willed woman from rural Colorado, “felt she would die young,” writes veteran science journalist Wheelwright. She was correct, for Medina had more than Spanish and Native American genes in her background; she also carried a mutation inherited from Spanish Jews that made early-onset breast cancer a near certainty. Wheelwright traces the history of the gene and recounts how Medina’s religion-based rejection of conventional medicine contributed to her death, at age 28, in 1999.
Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn At 103, wandering Jewish flautist Leib Goldkorn has seemingly come to the end of the score: in an empty New York City apartment, he has turned on the gas, put his head in the Magic Chef oven and . … Weep not, fans of novelist Epstein’s oft-recurring character. Leib’s suicide is prevented by a cat and a suddenly appearing ticket to his hometown in the Czech Republic. Madcap adventure, the ghost of Gustav Mahler, and a surprising return to NYC await.
More books by Yale authors Lori Andrews ’75, ’78JD Philip E. Auerswald ’88 Robin Bernstein ’04PhD Steven Bilakovics, postdoctoral associate in political science Harold Bloom ’56PhD, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Louis Daniel Brodsky ’63 Robert A. Burt ’64LLB Antoinette M. Burton ’83 Paul Chapman ’70 Lisa Cohen ’95PhD Peter Cole, visiting fellow, and Aminadav Dykman Angela H. DePace ’96 and Felice C. Frankel Joel S. Fetzer 91, ’96PhD John G. Flobeck ’56 Paul H. Fry ’85MAH, professor of English Liza Grandia ’96 Abner S.Greene ’82 Jed Handelsman Shugerman ’96, ’02JD, ’08PhD Larry C. Johnson ’78MDiv Catherine Liu ’85 Florencia E. Mallon ’76, ’80PhD, and Gladys McCormick Michael E. Mann ’91, ’98PhD Dale B. Martin ’86, ’88PhD Stephen Prothero ’82 Michael J. Puri ’04MPhil Stephen C. Schimpff ’67MD Jan Steckel ’93MD John G. Taft ’77, ’81MPPM, and Charles D. Ellis Amy Waldman ’91 Rebecca Wiegand ’05 and Jessica Massa George M. Young ’73PhD
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