"They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim" by William B. Gravely ’61
The 309-page book, published in February 2019 by the University of South Carolina Press, tells the story of Willie Earle’s murder within the historical context of the state’s troubled past with the issue of racism. Gravely is a professor emeritus at the University of Denver.
"Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita and the Battle of Manila" by James M. Scott ’97
Published in October 2018 by W.W. Norton & Co., Scott’s book is considered the definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific. "Rampage" was named a best book of 2018 by the editors at Amazon, Kirkus and Military Times.
"Neighborhood Hawks: A Year Following Wild Birds" by John Lane ’77
After reading J.A. Baker’s 50-year-old British nature classic "The Peregrine," Lane found himself stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg, S.C. He shares his enlightening observations in this book published in April 2019 by University of Georgia Press.
"This Atom Bomb in Me" by Dr. Lindsey A. Freeman ’00
The book traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tenn. The book was published by Stanford University Press in February and is available on Amazon.com.