Articles by Department: Books

The urbane Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl ’09 was Hitler’s crony and foreign press chief during the Führer’s ascendancy, and played…

For years, side by side with a photograph of my best dog ever, I’ve kept on my office mantelpiece Mathew Brady’s portrait of the 11-year-old…

On the jacket, a detail of an idealized image of a chief (or mwanangana, "lord of the land"), created by an artist in Angola in the…

"How strange it is…that we are so often locked out of ourselves," writes Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D. ’68, in A Scream Goes through the…

When Thomas McMahon, McKay professor of applied mechanics and professor of biology, died unexpectedly of heart failure on Valentine’s Day, 1999…

Wendy Fischman, Ed ’99, Becca Solomon, Ed ’99, Deborah Greenspan, and Howard Gardner ’65, Ph.D. ’71, Making Good: How…

A bombardier beetle, in a photograph by Eisner from the bookFor Love of Insects, by Thomas Eisner ’51, Ph.D. ’56 (Harvard University Press…

In The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton University Press…

Freshman women officially joined their male counterparts in Harvard Yard’s dormitories in 1972. But 25 years later, when Harvard College…

St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography, by Philip Freeman, Ph.D. ’94 (Simon and Schuster, $24). It’s a pious fiction that Patrick drove the snakes…

In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin ’60, LL.D. ’01, and Jacob Weisberg (Random House, $35)…

Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of history at Harvard…

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, said Shakespeare, are of imagination all compact. He forgot the mathematician, whose daily concerns are…

Squash aficionados—and Harvard has nurtured many of them, at first under legendary coach Harry Cowles—will find deeply satisfying and…

Harvard Yard, by William Martin ’72 (Warner, $25.95). When John Harvard was born, his parents’ friend William Shakespeare gave them an autograph…