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Bookshelf bookshelf H orace Mann School celebrates our many alumni authors in this column, and by showcasing alumni-written books in the Olshan Lobby of the School’s Mullady Hall. Please share news of a new book you or another alum has written. The Alumni House and Development Office makes every effort to keep up to date on recent publications by alumni. Keep us posted at (718) 4323453 or alumni@horacemann.org. The Passage of Power By Robert Caro ’53 Knopf, May 1, 2012 The literary event of the year has to be the May 1, 2012 publication of The Passage of Power— Lizard World prospectors, cowboys and lawmen, had the fourth volume in By Terry Richard Bazes ’66 outlived their purpose. These characRobert Caro’s ’53 Livingston Pr, October 31, 2011 ters were rescued by the discovery of monumental In Lizard World, biography, The Years gold in Alaska and the Canadian novelist Dr. Richard Klondike. This new frontier added a new of Lyndon Johnson, Bazes ’66 takes a which began with “The Path to Power” crop of adventurers and toughs to the dentist from New American myth—and reality. This time followed by “Means of Ascent” both of Jersey, and maroons they came by the tens of thousands which won the National Book Critics him at midnight in Circle Award, and Pulitzer Prize and from all over the world, to beat a the Florida swamps. worldwide economic depression. National Book Award-winning “Master There the dentist of the Senate.” Driven by visions of vast wealth, these “The Passage of Power” follows makes the mistake men, and some women, created a Johnson through the most frustrating of falling into the stampede northward. Howard Blum and the most triumphant periods of clutches of a depraved—yet hilarious— tells their story and the story of the his career—1958 to1964, a time that family of amateur surgeons devoted to a unexplored territory of frozen waterth would see him trade the extraordi17 -century libertine whose discovery of ways, dark spruce forests, and snownary power he had created for himself an elixir has kept his evil presence alive for capped mountains they ventured as Senate Majority Leader for what the past 300 years. Wrote Library Journal: stumbled into in The Floor of Heaven, became the wretched powerlessness “The eccentric author of Goldsmith’s published in spring 2011 0first in 2011, of a Vice President in an administration Return presents a Florida gothic fable and out in paperback this spring. that disdained and distrusted him. Yet, that both amuses and horrifies as its A former New York Times journalist, this period would also evolve into the gruesome story takes shape.” Blum is the author of ten other books, period in which the presidency, the goal “Goodreads” described Bazes’ writing in including the best-selling American Johnson had always pursued, would be Lizard World as “breath-taking beyond Lightening: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of belief” saying “This incredibly inventive, Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century thrust upon him in the moment it took dark tale which spans and flashes back and Gangland: How the FBI Broke the an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark. and forth among different eras…. “The Passage of Power” presents, for Mob. In a starred review of The Floor of There’s genius in this writing and it has Heaven Publisher’s Weekly wrote: “Blum… the first time, the story of the assasliterary legs which appreciative readers displays all his creative gifts here. sination from the viewpoint of Lyndon will value for generations to come.” Johnson himself. Using primary source materials from With the depth of insight, and the the three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, he tells a fascinatprofound grasp of both the life and The Floor of Heaven ing story. Detailing crimes perpetuated times of his subject that Robert Caro By Howard Blum ’65 and solved, relationships both happy has consistently brought to this mesCrown, April 26, 2011; Paperback, Broadand tragic, hardships unthinkable in the merizing biography, the book reveals way Books, March 27, 2012 modern age, and the cold, magical allure what it was like to suddenly become In the last decade of of Alaska and the Yukon, Blum captures president in a time of great crisis—an the 19th century the the spirit and mood of the last of the assumption of presidential power Wild West had Old West. The final pages, especially, unprecedented in American history. been tamed and its are filled with drama and a strange He chronicles how Johnson stepped, fierce, independent, yearning…. this is a huge success.” unprepared, into the presidency and and often violent within weeks forced through Congress larger-than-life bills on the budget and civil rights figures, including that it had determined to let die; how gun-toting wanderthrough his singular political genius he ers, trappers, set out to make the presidency his own, Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2012 33

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann - Spring 2012

Horace Mann - Spring 2012
Contents
Letters
Greetings From Dr. Tom Kelly
Greetings From Melissa Parento ’90
Horace Mann School Celebrates 125 Years
Alumni Council Corner
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials

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