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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. If you would like to purchase any of the books noted here, a portion of the sales will benefit Horace Mann School when you shop through The General Store on www.horacemann.org . The Secret Soldier avoid permanent environmental destruction, Flattau advocates a major realignment of our value system and economic infrastructure, arguing that environmentalism must become a moral imperative upheld by all. Green Morality is the culmination of research from the author’s 40-year career delving into earth’s escalating environmental crisis. The book analyzes man-made environmental atrocities, uncovers devastation committed by individuals, corporations and governments, and demonstrates how these actions conflict with values the offending parties espouse. in this cook-and-how-to-(throw a party) book. Lavishly photographed, the book reflects the charm and whimsy that Alice’s patrons have grown to love. Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II By Joshua Hammer ’75 Free Press (paperback), February 26, 2011 Yokohama Burning is the story of the The Secret Soldier by worst natural Alex Berenson ’90 disaster of the is a fast-paced twentieth century: international thriller the earthquakes, that places fictional fires, and tsunamis protagonist John of September 1923 Wells, a former CIA that destroyed agent turned Yokohama and most international of Tokyo and killed 140,000 people operative, at the during two days of horror. With cinroyal right hand of Saudi Arabia’s King ematic vividness and from multiple Abdullah. The book portrays the perspectives, international corresponintricacies and complexities of Arab dent Joshua Hammer ’75 recreates culture while examining issues of harrowing scenes of death, escape, and mortality, power, and succession of rescue. Placing the tumultuous events in leadership. In Berenson’s fifth John historical context he demonstrates how Wells novel a mysterious call brings a they set Japan on a path to the even surprise meeting with the aged King greater tragedy of WW II. Hammer who, reaching his final days, chooses his Alice’s Tea Cup: Delectable Recipes searched diaries, letters, and newspaper son as his successor in a move opposed for Scones, Cakes, Sandwiches, accounts and interviewed nonagenarian by some members of the Royal Family. and More from New York’s Most survivors to piece together a minute-byWith the secret blessing of the CIA, Whimsical Tea Spot minute account of the catastrophe. Wells goes undercover; but the more he By Haley Fox ’92 and Lauren Fox Yokohama Burning is more than a William Morrow Cookbooks, learns, the more complicated things disaster narrative. In vigorous prose, become. One thing is clear in this novel: October 26, 2010 Hammer sets the sociopolitical stage for If the conspirators prevail, it may be the Named one of the the catastrophe, when Japan’s rapid beginning of the final conflagration best NYC economic growth, Westernization and between America and Islam. Cookbooks of 2010 integration into the world community by New York fed a growing militaristic, xenophobic Magazine, Alice’s impulse that lead to Japan’s march to Green Morality Tea Cup covers the war with the West, reverberating for By Edward Flattau ’54 bases from breakdecades after. This story of national The Way Things Are Publications, fast and brunch fare, tragedy and individual heroism combine September 15, 2011 through lunch to afternoon tea. Haley in a narrative with historical perspective. Green Morality, by nationally-syndicated Fox ’92 and her sister Lauren Fox learned environmental columnist Edward Flattau at an early age that tea was more than a ’54, is a thorough and timely exploration beverage—it was an event to be shared Endeavor to Persevere: of humanity’s moral obligation to create and protected. The authors divulge their A Memoir on Jimmy Connors, an environmentally and economically tea-making philosophy and share nearly Arthur Ashe, Tennis and Life sustainable global society. Crossing 100 recipes from their three charming By Douglas Henderson, Jr. ’76 political and cultural boundaries, and to Alice’s Tea Cup restaurants in New York Untreed Reads, December 3, 2010 By Alex Berenson, ’90 G.P. Putnam’s Sons, February 2011 Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2011 41 http://www.horacemann.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann - Spring/Summer 2011

Horace Mann - Spring/summer 2011
Contents
Letters
Greetings From Dr. Tom Kelly, Horace Mann School Head of School
Greetings From Melissa Parento ’90, Horace Mann School Director of Development
Education in a Global Era
News of the School
Alumni Council Corner
Horace Mann School Alumni Events Connect HM Alumni as Never Before
Food for Thought: A Traveler’s Guide to Tasting the Fare of Horace Mann School Alumni
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

Horace Mann - Spring/Summer 2011