Alexander Hamilton: Ambivalent Anglophile
Lawrence S. Kaplan '47
Scholarly Resources (2002)

Kaplan examines Hamilton's conception of America's role in the world and the foreign policies that followed from his vision. Part of the Biographies in American Foreign Policy Series (Kaplan also wrote Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire), this text follows Hamilton's rise as a Federalist and first Secretary of the Treasury to his death in a duel with Aaron Burr.

All I Want Is Everything
Cecily von Ziegesar '92
Little, Brown and Company (2003)

Will Blair get into Yale? Is Serena engaged to the gorgeous lead singer of America's hottest band? How naughty were they really in St. Barts? And what will they wear at their wild Upper East Side New Year's party--Gucci, Versace, D&G? Aimed at a younger Sex In the City set, this is von Ziegesar's third novel in her Gossip Girl series (gossipgirl.net), and it is just as juicy as the others.

FamilyFun Boredom Busters
Deanna F. Cook '88, editor
Disney Editions (2002)

No more whining from the kids that there's nothing to do. From getting lost in the clouds to making a tepee, Cook's Boredom Busters is filled with 365 games, crafts and activities for any day of the year. It includes classic and new backyard games (No. 61 Spud, No. 70 Soggy Jog Relay), rainy-day play (No. 113 Box Car Derby), arts and crafts (No. 227 Build a Geodesic Dome) and projects galore.

Back Story
Robert B. Parker '54
Penguin Putnam (2003)

In Parker's 30th Spenser novel the Boston private eye takes on an unsolved murder nearly three decades old. Who fired the shot that killed a woman during a 1974 bank holdup by leftist radicals? Powerful people on both sides of the law want Spenser to leave that question unanswered.

Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy
Joseph and Owen Lovejoy
Lovejoy Press (2002)

Robert W. Tabscott and Robert C. Holt Jr. revised and annotated the 1838 original written by Lovejoy's brothers Owen and Joseph after Lovejoy was shot down on November 7, 1837, by a pro-slavery mob. It includes an introduction by John Quincy Adams, who called Lovejoy the "first American martyr to the freedom of the press and the freedom of the slave," family letters, poems and historical accounts.