Bruce Cutler '70 is the author of Closing Argument: Defending (and Befriending) John Gotti and Other Legal Battles I Have Waged. The book is an autobiography of Cutler, who became one of the most famous lawyers in America through his defense of mob boss John Gotti. Although Gotti threatens to overpower the book, it would be a great mistake to dismiss it as primarily centered on the "Teflon Don." Cutler also tells of his early upbringing, his days at Hamilton and his practice of the lawyer's craft, in addition to his insider accounts of high-profile criminal trials. More ...

John Gordon '67 is the author of Phisiology and the Literary Imagination: Romantic to Modern, an impressive scholarly study, unique in its approach, which explores the impact of medical developments on writers including Wordsworth, Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Eliot, Joyce, Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath, as reflected in their works. By painstakingly analyzing their writings, Gordon, a professor of English at Connecticut College, casts new light on literary inspiration in seven significant authors spanning almost two centuries. More ...

Stephen Rabe, whose publications include three monographs on U.S. relations with Latin America, is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas. In this work, he joins with James N. Giglio, a professor of history at Southwest Missouri State University, in examining the foreign policy of John F. Kennedy and its legacy. In their respective essays, to which pertinent documents are appended, they offer challenging interpretations and provocative views. Although they agree on some points, Professor Giglio largely defends the Kennedy record while Professor Rabe is more critical, depicting Kennedy as “a relentless cold warrior who perpetuated the Cold War more than he resolved it.” The book is ideal for stimulating discussion both in and outside of the classroom. More ...

In After the Hunt, Adrienne Ruger Conzelman catalogs the art collection of her grandfather, arms maker William B. Ruger. The American West and sporting art are most prominent in his collection—Seth Eastman's Winnebago Encampment, Alexander Phimister Proctor's The Indian Warrior, and Frank Tenney Johnson's Cowboy on Horseback are examples.Adrienne Ruger Conzelman has a graduate degree in American art and works in the art field(www.barnesandnoble.com). More ...

Brett H. Mandel '91 is the author of Is This Heaven? The Magic of the Field of Dreams, about the some 75,000 people a year who make a pilgrimage to the baseball diamond carved out of a northeast Iowa cornfield for the 1989 film Field of Dreams. Why do they do it? Mandel addresses that question by relating the stories, often poignant, of those who seek, and frequently find, comfort, fulfillment and even redemption at that make-believe place, which has somehow taken on mystical reality. More ...

The first published collection of poetry by an attorney in Albany, NY, who has been composing verse since his youth. Originally inspired by the poems of Bob Dylan, he developed over the years his own voice and style. More ...

Strengthening the voices of writers such as Jane Nardal, Paulette Nardal, and Suzanne Cesaire, -Negritude Women delves beneath the more prominent male figures of the Negritude movement to the female contributions necessary to its development. By exploring these women's writings, they are shown to be essential to the history of the movement and the eventual representation of a new literature and philosophy of black humanism among black Francophone intellectuals. More ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the initial running of the Utica Boilermaker marathon, which is today internationally known and attracts participants from around the world. More ...

The author, who has done considerable research and much writing on Lebanon and the Near East, and especially on the Lebanese and their contributions to this country as well as the world, wrote this work in the aftermath of September 11. In it, he sees contemporary acts of terrorism as the latest outbreaks of an East-West struggle that goes back to the Crusades, with Lebanon uneasily poised in a moderate stance between them. More ...

Winners of the inaugural Hofstadter Prize for machine-written narrative, these artificially constructed stories represent the future of post-human fiction. More ...