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The Company He Keeps
Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities, The Company He Keeps explores many factors--such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness--that have contributed to particular versions of fraternal masculinity at different times. Syrett demonstrates the ways that fraternity brothers' masculinity has had consequences for other students on campus as well, emphasizing the exclusion of different groups of classmates and the sexual exploitation of female college students.
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Constitutional Coup
Americans hate bureaucracy—though they love the services it provides—and demand that government run like a business. Hence today’s privatization revolution. Jon Michaels shows how the fusion of politics and profits commercializes government and consolidates state power in ways the Constitution’s framers endeavored to disaggregate.
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Tools As Art
There are elegant and witty sculptures of tools - from common hammers, saws, screwdrivers, pliers, and wrenches to machine tools such as the lathe and the drill press - in wood, glass, metal, paper, and stone; constructions of found objects and building materials that use familiar forms to make works of imaginative power; and paintings, prints, and photographs depicting tools of all sorts. The artists range from well-known figures such as Jim Dine, Arman, Jean Tinguely, Lucas Samaras, Richard Estes, Claes Oldenburg, and Walker Evans to younger men and women, some of whom are published here for the first time.
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Two Lives...and Then Some
Two Lives...and Then Some: The Parti ng, Volume 3 of Gordon Graham’s memoirs, is a tribute to Barbara Graham, his wife Barbara who died in 2006 of Motor Neurone Disease. We follow Gordon from his days working as personnel manager at in Washington, D.C., through law school and into work as a civil rights acti vist and government anti -poverty worker. He returns to Clinton where he is successful in his bid for a School Committ ee seat. He turns to another career as general counsel for a major state environmental agency where the latent sti rrings of religious vocati on surface and he decides to enter seminary. His journey then takes him to Northern Ireland where as an ordained priest of the Anglican Communion he serves in parishes, works with other Christi an churches, and does church development work. Throughout it all, Barbara pursues her interest in music and parti cipates in choirs and chorales and makes her own eff ort in the church to bring people together. Readers will laugh out loud at many of Gordon’s stories but they will shed tears as they share those last days of Barbara’s life.
