Perish Twice
Robert B. Parker '54
G.P. Putnam's Sons (2000)
The prolific Parker returns with a second adventure for his recently created female protagonist, Boston detective Sunny Randall. The creator of Spenser–and more than 36 novels–Parker puts his newest gumshoe through particularly perilous paces this time around. Hired to protect a prominent feminist, Randall grapples with a double murder and wrenching personal battles in her own family. Another trip through the Boston underworld, with Parker's elegant prose as your guide.

Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement
Cheshire Calhoun (philosophy)
Oxford University Press (2000)
Has feminism failed lesbianism? Calhoun answers this question through an in-depth examination of lesbian and gay subordination. She critiques the analytic frameworks employed within feminism that render invisible the differences between lesbian and heterosexual women in order to bring the study of lesbian life from the margins to the center of feminist theory. She strives to move lesbian and gay politics away from the concerns of sexual regulations and toward concerns of displacement of gays and lesbians from both the public sphere of visible citizenship and the private sphere of romance, marriage and family.

Sunday at the Ballpark: Billy Sunday's Professional Baseball Career 1883-1890
Wendy Knickerbocker '73
Scarecrow Press (2000)
The aptly named Billy Sunday was a great American evangelist, once ranked in the top 10 when a national magazine asked readers to name the greatest man in the United States (Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Edison also made the list). But as Knickerbocker explores in this book, Sunday was also a fine major league baseball player. Director of library services at Maine Maritime Academy and a long-time baseball fan, Knickerbocker shows us Sunday's struggles and accomplishments as a truly exceptional baseball player in the game's rough-and-tumble early years. He refused to play on Sunday and was an ardent champion of Prohibition. Needless to say, the only thing Sunday ever stole was bases.

Campaign Finance Reform: Beyond the Basics
Anthony Corrado (government)
Brookings Institute Press (2000)
In the wake of yet another failed effort to enact campaign finance reform during the 1998 legislative session, the new Congress will once again wrestle with an issue that the public continues to rank as a high priority. Political scientist Corrado, one of the nation's foremost experts on campaign finance and the political process, provides essential facts about campaign finance reform as well as clear explanations of key concepts and areas of dispute.