Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1976

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Books Biography

Classmate	Title	Pub, Year	Description	For more information...
Chaffetz, David	Three Asian Divas	Abbreviated Press, 2019	The elite woman performer, in countries as diverse as Iran and China, transmitted the classics, set the tone in cultivated society, and enjoyed agency unavailable to their contemporaries, men or women. The persona and performances of three divas are recreated in this book.	Three Asian Divas

Colt, George	George Howe Colt, Brothers: What the van Goghs, Booths, Marxes, Kelloggs---& Colts---Tell Us About How Siblings Shape Our Lives and History	Scribner, 2012	A book about growing up in a family of four brothers and about well-known brothers in history.	available from Simon and Schuster
Colt, George	George Howe Colt, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home	Scribner, 2003	A memoir about a family and a way of life as seen through an idiosyncratic old house.	available from Amazon

Jacker, Mike	Taken By The Wind: Memoir of a Sailor's Voyage in a Bygone Era	Talking Bird Press, 2020	Immediately following graduation in 1976, I began a year-long voyage to the South Pacific aboard a 30-foot sailboat along with two friends, Clark Pellett (Harvard '76) and Louis Gordon.	Read more here available from Amazon

Kemp, Hovey	Montana Stories	Self-published, 2020	A book about my father's family's multi-generational involvement in ranching and agriculture in the West and a collection of stories about the three summers I spent in high school working on a large cattle ranch in south central Montana.	Contact the author for availability
Kemp, Hovey	PRIZE SONG--The History of Lester Wilson and Bow Down to Washington	Self-published, 2019	The book is about my maternal grandfather and the ever-popular college fight song he composed in 1915, despite not being able to read or write music. He won $25 by submitting the winning song in a contest sponsored by the University of Washington school newspaper to come up with a new fight song for the college and its football team. The book follows the colorful history of both his life and the song.	Contact the author for availability

Newport, John Paul	John Paul Newport, The Fine Green Line: My Year of Golf Adventure on the Pro-Golf Mini-Tours	Broadway Books, 2000	What happens when a man obsessed with golf leaves home for a year to pursue his dream? At age 40, John Paul Newport spent a year playing in the bush leagues - the dark, comic underbelly of professional golf.	available from This link

Pickering, Mary	Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, Volume 3	Cambridge University Press, 2009	Intellectual biography of Auguste Comte, the nineteenth-century French founder of positivism, sociology, and the history of science.	available from Cambridge University Press
	Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, Volume 2	Cambridge University Press, 2009	Intellectual biography of Auguste Comte, the nineteenth-century French founder of positivism, sociology, and the history of science.	available from Cambridge University Press
	Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, Volume 1	Cambridge University Press, 1993	Intellectual biography of Auguste Comte, the nineteenth-century French founder of positivism, sociology, and the history of science.	available from Cambridge University Press

Polk, Milbry	Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World	Crown, 2001	Across the centuries and from many lands, women have set forth on journeys of exploration. Visionaries, adventurers, artists, and scientists, these women challenged the limitations, both physical and social, of their times and, in the face of formidable challenges, expanded the world's body of knowledge.	available from Women of Discovery

Riesman, Robert	Bob Riesman, I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy	University of Chicago Press, 2011	This is a biography of Big Bill Broonzy, a blue musician who came from humble beginnings in Arkansas, introduced his songs and music to European audiences, and influenced musicians including Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton. Along the way, he continuously reinvented himself and his music while addressing race relations and making a lasting imprint on the blues.	Read summary and reviews available from Amazon

Rives, Barclay	William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve	Atelerix Press, 2014	Biography of Senator William Cabell Rives (1793-1868). His career of public service began under the tutelage of his neighbors Jefferson and Madison, and extended past the Civil War he struggled to prevent.	available from Amazon

Schulenberg, David	David Schulenberg, Bach	Oxford University Press, 2020	A life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) for general readers, with online supplements and music examples for those wishing to pursue certain topics in greater depth.	Online supplements and examples here available from this link

Toff, Nancy	Nancy Toff, Monarch of the Flute: The Life of Georges Barrere	Oxford University Press, 2005	A biography of Georges Barrère (1876-1944), who holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance.	Read more here available from This link
Toff, Nancy	Nancy Toff, Georges Barrère and the Flute in America	New York Flute Club, 1994	A catalog for an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (1994-95). Georges Barrère (1876-1944), who founded the New York Flute Club in 1920, holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. He was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind playing. He came to the United States in 1905 to become first flutist of the New York Symphony, and he taught for thirty-nine years at Juilliard.	Read more here available from This link

Wilentz, Amy	I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger	Simon & Schuster, 2006	A tragicomic politico-cultural memoir of the author’s arrival in the dream state from 9/11-traumatized Manhattan, just as the good people of California were facing a recall of their governor, who was finally replaced by strongman Arnold Schwarzenegger. A foreshadowing of what happened to the country with Donald Trump, but funnier.	available from Amazon

Wright, Thomas	Douglas Preston, John Douglas , Mark Olshaker , Steve Moore , Judge Michael Heavey, Jim Lovering, Thomas Lee Wright, The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher	2014	Amidst all the sound and fury surrounding the Italian murder trial of American student Amanda Knox, two people have been largely forgotten.	Read more here available from Amazon