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Books

New books by Dartmouth alumni

Features

Six alumni members of Congress get together to discuss the deficit, healthcare, foreign policy and the 2012 election.
Talk about a cool gig: For 26 years Bill Calhoun ’76 has been tuning pianos for performers at the Newport Jazz festival.
The College archives contain dozens of designs and plans for campus buildings that never got off the drawing board.
Student. Mother. Military wife. One alumna’s slightly complicated undergraduate experience.
Samplings of the Dartmouth-only lexicon, in which denotations mingle with connotations and other doublespeak.
Alums and students are no mere bystanders when the area’s biggest cycling fundraiser hits the streets every July.
A tiny detail from a poem captured the strangeness of the ordinary—and the extraordinary insight of a beloved professor.
A Pulitzer Prize winner examines the periodic thwarting of U.S. civil liberties since the nation’s founding.
An acclaimed neuroscientist on studying the brain.
Alumni making headlines around the world
Around the Green in sixty seconds
“...and the granite of New Hampshire keeps the record of their fame.”

Letters

Readers write, react and respond.
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Portfolio

Norman Maclean ’24, the Undergraduate Years
An excerpt from “Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers”
One of a Kind
Author Lynn Lobban ’69 confronts painful past.
Trail Blazer

Lis Smith ’05 busts through campaign norms and glass ceilings as she goes all in to get her candidate in the White House. 

John Merrow ’63
An education journalist on the state of our schools

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