Beginning with a scathing criticism of past presidential leadership of the United States, this treatise on the role of higher education in political history explores the relationship between political resources and wealth in a society that is drastically divided along class lines.  The author, a former college president, contends that the only way democracy can survive is by training political and cultural leaders to have both knowledge of and concern for all Americans. This vision entails organizing elite colleges based on intercultural and multicultural models.

Restoring America's Failed Democracy: New Roles for the Elite College

Politics & Social Sciences

Benezet, Louis T.

Sociology

Higganum Hill Books

"Penned by a night watchman, this collection of poems explores the netherworld of American society and offers a vision of modern decay and loss of values. Elements depicting the corruption of virtue and the separation of social barriers are fused with a wry and somewhat grotesque humor. A mixture of fantasy and double-entendre reveal a second level of meaning in ordinary objects and events, moving the criticism of darkness to a special appreciation of society's dregs. Particular focus is given to the complex choices made in the service of art."

Caldecott: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Funt, Robert

Poetry

"Beginning with a scathing criticism of past presidential leadership of the United States, this treatise on the role of higher education in political history explores the relationship between political resources and wealth in a society that is drastically divided along class lines. The author, a former college president, contends that the only way democracy can survive is by training political and cultural leaders to have both knowledge of and concern for all Americans. This vision entails organizing elite colleges based on intercultural and multicultural models."

"In this collection of poetry, power and the heavy hand of a society gone mad with technological overload and informational glut are woven into quiet poetical ruminations captured within the walls of a garden. Each flower and the soil itself is used to explore, uncover, dissect, and evaluate a dimension of the world beyond the garden walls. The politics of academics, the meaningless hustle of the urban scene, and the scurrying of a time-enslaved society are brutally examined under the guise of simple descriptions of flora."

Ordering: A Season in My Garden

Pobo, Kenneth

“Peter Tauber’s beautifully observed and hilarious diary of basic training as it is practiced in ‘the new action army’ is the most likeable work of lightly serious non-fiction I’ve read since The Strawberry Statement, a cool devastation of an institution one would have thought too thoroughly battered by this time to be worth expending any more ammunition on. Every draftee should equip himself with The Sunshine Soldiers and, just to even the contest, the Army should issue it to every officer and noncom who must deal with the troops. As for me, I stand in some small awe of Tauber’s achievement.” -----Richard Schickel, Harper’s “Lord, to think what twenty-odd years has done to Pvt, Hargrove.” -----George Plimpton “Does for Basic Training what Up the Organization tried to do for the corporate scene---blow the whistle on the whole stupid, phony, wasteful, counterproductive charade just by telling it like it is. Right on, Peter Tauber” -----Robert Townsend, author of: Up the Organization “For anyone who recalls his own military service with any reverence, it makes harrowing---if at times hilarious--- reading -----E. Roy Ray, Business Week “The Sunshine Soldiers is the most reasoned, and the best anti-military, pro-human book since All Quiet on the Western Front. Its humor is as black as that in Catch-22, and its grasp of military ‘reason’ is as complete.” ----- Eric Lax, The Texas Observer “. . . .the spirit of The Sunshine Soldiers--a daybook accounting of two months of basic training at one of the West’s most unpleasant bald spots, Fort Bliss-- is a blend of Lucky Jim and Catch-22.” ----- Robert Sherrill, New York Times Book Review

The Sunshine Soldiers

Biographies & Memoirs

TAUBER, Peter

Leaders & Notable People

This collection of poetry explores the poet's relationship and generational conflict with his father, the environment in which he matured, and the culture of his youth. The poems center around problems achieving self-definition in the American Midwest and the massive pressures for conformity pressed upon youth by the pop media. The poet rails against his own generation, which he views as failing to respond to the massive changes in the American social morass, except by escapism and avoidance.

Ha Ha Tonka: A Book of Rune

Ryan G. Van Cleave

"This book of poetry ranges back through history to the 1600s and pleads with mankind to attend to the massive damage technological advancement is bringing to the biosphere. The poems warn that blindness to these changes, which wantonly destroy that understructure upon which life depends, will make the future of man a wasteland and a devastation. A single locale, Hemlock Gorge, a bypassed island of natural beauty immersed in the head-on rush of modern technological culture, is used to illustrate these dangers."

Echoes in Hemlock Gorge: An American Sequence for the New Millennium

Worth, Douglas

This collection of family e-mail correspondence reveals the fears and tribulations of a mother and father relocated to a nation and region far from the suburban culture from which they had come. The observations encompass helicopter trips over an Asian mountain range, opera, ballet, the International Ladies Society in the capital city of Almaty, and an unforgettable six-day trip on the historic Silk Road of Central Asia to the ancient homeland of Tamerlane in Samarkand and Bukhara in central Uzbekistan. These letters reveal a couple who became experts on the integration of an emerging, isolated nation into a new international business community.

You'Ve Got Mail from Kazakhstan

Mesh, Sally

Mesh, Stan

Travel

Thirty years of commentary on American culture.

Winter

DeBold, Dick

Essays & Correspondence

Selected poems from the author's prolific and much admired writing. The poems are lyric and focus on the region in which he lived, around Cambridge and Eastern Massachusetts.

Catch the Light

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Restoring America's Failed Democracy: New Roles for the Elite College

Caldecott: Poems

Restoring America's Failed Democracy: New Roles for the Elite College

Ordering: A Season in My Garden

The Sunshine Soldiers

Ha Ha Tonka: A Book of Rune

Echoes in Hemlock Gorge: An American Sequence for the New Millennium

You'Ve Got Mail from Kazakhstan

Winter

Catch the Light