Books by Alums
The world knows the Hero of Two Worlds, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, best known today as Lafayette.
Set in New York City, Denver and the mountains of Colorado, the Bahamas, and the Scottish Highlands, Graydon 鈥淒ee鈥 Hubbard novel At the Altars of Money captures an American ethos about money and scripts the financial meltdown of 2008.
After 40 years of research, Jean-Paul Valette and Rebecca Valette published the book Navajo Weavings with Ceremonial Themes: A Historical Overview of a Secular Art Form.
Ruth, Esther, Songs of Songs and Judith is a聽lively commentary that encompasses four major books focusing on women in the Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha.
A feisty single mom clashes with an ex-military, sexist, corporate star at a business retreat in the Colorado mountains.
The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience takes a comprehensive look at how patients negotiate incomplete medicalization and what their experiences reveal about human's聽relationship with marijuana as it is incorporated into biomedicine.
Steve Frenzl (Bus鈥70) two-volume fictionalized memoir, titled 鈥淐offee & Donuts with the Dearly Departed鈥 tells the story of Steve adventures working as an apprentice at Boulder Howe Mortuary in the late 1960s.
Lija Fisher debut novel, The Cryptid Catcher, is about a boy who inherits a job hunting legendary creatures in Colorado.聽
Fran Yardley (Thtr鈥66) published her book, Finding True North: A History of One Small Corner of the Adirondacks, which outlines the journey of Fran and her late husband, Jay Yardley, as they revived the historic and long-abandoned Bartlett Carry Club in the Adirondacks.
In N. Stephen Kane (PhDHist鈥70) new book, Selling Reagan Foreign Policy: Going Public vs. Executive Bargaining, he examines President Reagan and his administration efforts to mobilize public and congressional support for seven of the president controversial foreign policy initiatives.