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The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs is in the news constantly in these days of financial crisis. This history by former Yale Corporation fellow Charles D. Ellis, who consulted for the firm for more than 30 years, provides an insider's view of the personalities and practices that made Goldman Sachs successful—and may have contributed to its surviving the disaster that brought down most of its peers. Though the book was all but finished before the subprime crisis, it is particularly relevant now as a look at the culture that shaped Henry Paulson and many others running the U.S. recovery attempts.
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British “Britain is an impossible subject, as impossible to grasp as quicksilver, and God knows, people have tried,” writes Sarah Lyall, an expat American journalist who came to England on assignment, married a Brit, and stayed in London to raise a family. The field guide is Lyall’s smashing attempt to understand her adopted and occasionally impenetrable country.
September Songs: The Good News about Marriage in the Later
Years “In the course of the twentieth century, something akin to a miracle has occurred: … 30 years of life have been added to the normal human life expectancy,” writes Scarf. This means that couples are increasingly likely to grow old together. But very little research has been done on how well these relationships are faring. In a fascinating book, Scarf talks to scientists and long-term couples alike and comes away optimistic about the states of these unions: not “unequivocally glorious,” but “pretty darn good.”
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir Writer, naturalist, and Sierra Club founder John Muir was “the greatest forerunner of modern environmentalism,” says historian Worster. He traces Muir’s path from Scotland to Wisconsin to California, where Muir camped in the Yosemite Valley with President Theodore Roosevelt and, “talk[ing] long into the night about glaciers, sequoias, and conservation,” persuaded him to ask Congress to create Yosemite National Park.
Martial’s Epigrams: A Selection Satirist Martial skewered the pompous of Rome in the late first century CE with such couplets as “How can the slippery son of a bitch, / With all his vices, not be rich?” In this earthy and definitely not-for-high-school-Latin-class translation, historian Wills introduces “Rome’s gossip columnist” and offers a generous collection, gleaned from Martial’s 14 books of epigrams, of some of the greatest hits in the art of ridicule.
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City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's
Destruction From the early nineteenth century on, “it seems that every generation has had its own reasons for destroying New York,” writes architectural historian Page. In this richly illustrated account of make-believe mayhem, he surveys the city’s annihilation by an eye-popping variety of imaginary destructive forces: earthquake, fire, flood, meteors, missiles, atomic bombs, climate change, and large apes, to name a few. He also explores why we delight in fictional civic destruction.
More Books by Yale Authors Thomas G. Andrews 1994 Willis Barnstone 1960PhD Alex Beam 1975 Jayna Brown 2001PhD Reid Buckley 1983BS, 1989MPPM Alicia Schmidt Camacho, the Sarai Ribicoff Associate
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Ethan Chorin 1991 John Demos, the Samuel Knight Professor of History Judith Dupre, the Dominique de Menil Scholar, Institute of
Sacred Music, Yale Divinity School John R. Ehrenfeld, Senior Research Scholar, School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies Lori Anne Ferrell 1986BLS, 1991PhD Darwin Gillett 1965 Jacob S. Hacker 2000PhD, editor Philip Hamburger 1982JD William Hanson, MD, 1977 Olivia Holmes 1980 Karl Jacoby 1997PhD Jane Kamensky 1985, 1993PhD, and Jill Lepore 1995PhD C. Brian Kelly 1957 and Ingrid Smyer-Kelly Sam Macdonald 1995 David R. Mayhew, the Sterling Professor of Political Science Maria Rosa Menocal, the Sterling Professor of Humanities,
and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center; Jerrilyn D. Dodds; and Abigail Krasner
Balbale Eric Metaxas 1984 and Nancy Tillman, illustrator Edward F. Mickolus 1981PhD Clyde A. Milner II
1979PhD and Carol A. O'Connor 1976PhD Tracy Myers Karen Ngo 1993, writer and photographer James J. O'Donnell 1975PhD Lois Presser 1994MBA Frank Prochaska, Senior Research Scholar, Department of History Tricia Rose 1984 Marina Rustow 1990 Stephen Sandy 1955 Jim Sciutto 1992 Charles Seife 1995MS Lewis D. Solomon 1966LLB and Janet Stern Solomon Robert Stilling 1999 and Jessica R. Feldman, editors Rachel Toor 1984 Robert L. Tsai 1997JD Rosanna Warren 1976 Lily Whiteman 1988MEM, 1990MPH Robin G. Wilder and Jackson R. Bryer, editors
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