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1933-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950. (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
1965-John A. Williamson. "The World Automobile and Truck-Building Industry: Consolidation and Globalization." In CRS Report
Nr. RL30633 (Congressional Research Services, The Library of Congress, 2000)
Aldo J. Baggia "Monumental Organs in Monumental Churches: The Brick Gothic Phenomenon in Northern Germany." In The Diapason (August 2000) Morse Hamilton [Former faculty member and Bennett Fellow] The Garden of Eden Motel (Greenwillow Books, 1999)[Published post- humously; recently chosen by the Riverbank Review as a 2000 Children's Book of Distinction] Yellow Blue Bus Means I Love You (Avon Books, 2000)
1969-Philo A. Hutcheson. A Professional Professoriate: Unionization, Bureaucratization, and the AAUP. (Vanderbilt University Press, 1999) |
Angels & Demons: Heaven-sent Suspense  "Looking
for a wild ride through the world of the high tech via the winding streets of Vatican City?
Angels & Demons, the latest thriller from Dan Brown '82, is the winter reading choice for you.
A combination of Tom Clancy and Umberto Eco, as one reviewer called it, this novel is a thriller
and a mystery wrapped in the context of Roman Catholic Church history.The son of emeritus instructor Dick Brown and writer Connie Brown, Dan Brown grew up at the Academy and lived in Dunbar and Bancroft halls. He now lives in Exeter with his wife, Blythe. Brown has from time to time taught in the Academy's English and Spanish departments, but first and foremost he is a writer and a fine spinner of tales. Angels & Demons and its predecessor, Brown's well-regarded first novel, Digital Fortress, demonstrate his ability to craft a story as an ever-escalating succession of suspenseful twists and turns. And while his books may take the reader back 400 years, they are also up-to-the-minute high-tech thrillers. At the center of Angels & Demons is Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who becomes entangled with a secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. This ancient organization has emerged from centuries of hiding to carry out vengeance on its historic enemy, the Roman Catholic Church. Langdon and Vittoria Vetra, a lovely, albeit mysterious, scientist, join forces to save Vatican City and the church. Together they chase the villains through, around and under cathedrals, crypts and catacombs to find the secret location of a state-of-the-art time bomb made of anti-matter. To add to the suspense, Brown sets this action against the backdrop of a Vatican conclave meeting to choose the next pope. One theme of the novel is first glimpsed on its cover, where the title, Angels & Demons, can be read exactly the same way when the book is turned upside down. Ambigrams are words drawn to read identically right side up and upside down. This ancient artistic technique figures prominently in the mysteries of Angels & Demons. Brown maintains his fast and furious pace throughout, sending his reader careering from one century's intrigues to another century's technologies. And while most readers will find this book impossible to put down, Angels & Demons offers special rewards to PEA readers: Brown has named several characters after people at the Academy. A key character is a bishop named Aldo Baggia, Harvard's poet in residence is "a quiet man named Charles Pratt," the Vatican librarian is a priest named Padre Jaqui Tomaso and Tyler Tingley is a conspiracy theorist. Like tourists who travel to Rome only to bump into their next-door neighbors, Exonians will enjoy spotting familiar names in unexpected settings. -Julie Quinn Julie Quinn is the Academy's Director of Communications. |
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