Bowdoin Alumni

{"id":7569934155865,"title":"Outpost — Hill '74","handle":"outpost-hill-74","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Christopher Hill, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “candid, behind-the-scenes” (\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He participated in one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic and traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo, and to the Dayton conference, where a truce was arrived at. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, in the cold war; chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton’s hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutpost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Hill’s “lively, entertaining…introduction to the difficult game of diplomacy” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)—an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents (Bush, Clinton, and Obama), of vice presidents including Dick Cheney, of Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger, among others. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America’s aggressive interventions and wars of choice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutpost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “is a personal story, filled with the intricacies of living abroad, coping with the bureaucracy of the huge US foreign-policy establishment, and trying to persuade some very difficult people that America really does want to help them” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-09T16:20:37-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-09T16:20:37-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41132207931481,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA454-Hill","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Outpost — Hill '74","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":544,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781451685930","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba454-hill-outpost.jpg?v=1712693886"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba454-hill-outpost.jpg?v=1712693886","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24971830591577,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba454-hill-outpost.jpg?v=1712693886"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba454-hill-outpost.jpg?v=1712693886","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Christopher Hill, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “candid, behind-the-scenes” (\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He participated in one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic and traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo, and to the Dayton conference, where a truce was arrived at. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, in the cold war; chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton’s hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutpost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Hill’s “lively, entertaining…introduction to the difficult game of diplomacy” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)—an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents (Bush, Clinton, and Obama), of vice presidents including Dick Cheney, of Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger, among others. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America’s aggressive interventions and wars of choice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutpost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “is a personal story, filled with the intricacies of living abroad, coping with the bureaucracy of the huge US foreign-policy establishment, and trying to persuade some very difficult people that America really does want to help them” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7556976640089,"title":"Neighborhood Heroes — Rielly '18","handle":"neighborhood-heroes-rielly-18","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Morgan Rielly, Class of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the old African proverb: \"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground,\" high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women who served in World War II. All of these veterans taught him something, not just about how to fight a war, but how to live a life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-03T16:37:59-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-03T16:37:59-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":1595,"price_min":1595,"price_max":1595,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1595,"compare_at_price_min":1595,"compare_at_price_max":1595,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41099230380121,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA448-Rielly","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Neighborhood Heroes — Rielly '18","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1595,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":1595,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781608932634","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba448-rielly-neighborhood.jpg?v=1712176531"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba448-rielly-neighborhood.jpg?v=1712176531","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons from Maine's Greatest Generation, by Morgan Rielly","id":24938996826201,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba448-rielly-neighborhood.jpg?v=1712176531"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba448-rielly-neighborhood.jpg?v=1712176531","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Morgan Rielly, Class of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the old African proverb: \"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground,\" high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women who served in World War II. All of these veterans taught him something, not just about how to fight a war, but how to live a life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7543051976793,"title":"Seed of Sarah — Isaacson G'67","handle":"seed-of-sarah-isaacson-g67","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/obituaries.bowdoin.edu\/judith-magyar-isaacson-g67\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bowdoin Obituary of Judith Magyar Isaacson\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJudith Magyar Isaacson\u003c\/a\u003e, Graduate Degree 1967\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"info-tabContent\" class=\"tab-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-labelledby=\"tab-0\" role=\"tabpanel\" id=\"pane-0\" class=\"card tab-pane fade show active\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-controls=\"collapse-0\" id=\"collapse-0\" class=\"collapse show active\"\u003eThis gripping and highly acclaimed account of a young woman's experience in concentration camps now includes a final chapter, \"A Time to Forgive?\" detailing the author's trips back to her former forced labor camp in Germany.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-controls=\"collapse-0\" class=\"collapse show active\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-controls=\"collapse-0\" class=\"collapse show active\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2024-03-27T17:06:55-04:00","created_at":"2024-03-27T17:06:55-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Books","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":2095,"price_min":2095,"price_max":2095,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2095,"compare_at_price_min":2095,"compare_at_price_max":2095,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41041935466585,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA444-Isaacson","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Seed of Sarah — Isaacson G'67","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2095,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":2095,"inventory_quantity":4,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780252062193","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba444-isaacson-seed.jpg?v=1711573393"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba444-isaacson-seed.jpg?v=1711573393","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor by Judith Magyar Isaacson","id":24898098331737,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba444-isaacson-seed.jpg?v=1711573393"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba444-isaacson-seed.jpg?v=1711573393","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/obituaries.bowdoin.edu\/judith-magyar-isaacson-g67\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bowdoin Obituary of Judith Magyar Isaacson\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJudith Magyar Isaacson\u003c\/a\u003e, Graduate Degree 1967\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"info-tabContent\" class=\"tab-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-labelledby=\"tab-0\" role=\"tabpanel\" id=\"pane-0\" class=\"card tab-pane fade show active\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-controls=\"collapse-0\" id=\"collapse-0\" class=\"collapse show active\"\u003eThis gripping and highly acclaimed account of a young woman's experience in concentration camps now includes a final chapter, \"A Time to Forgive?\" detailing the author's trips back to her former forced labor camp in Germany.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-controls=\"collapse-0\" class=\"collapse show active\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-controls=\"collapse-0\" class=\"collapse show active\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":7528103411801,"title":"I Promised You Daisies — Benjamin '66","handle":"i-promised-you-daisies-benjamin-66","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Robert A. Benjamin, Class of 1966\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor all of us who came of age during the time of Woodstock, hippies and Vietnam, our paths into adult life were more perilous than they might have been a few innocent years earlier. In 1966, although I had never heard a gun fired in anger, I was among the walking wounded of those days of political, intellectual and moral conflict. I was a fresh-faced, eager high school graduate about to embark on my journey of college, choosing a profession, and marrying my steady girl. No matter their sincerity, all of those dreams were broken and shattered. I faced difficult choices. I bore guilt I'd never imagined. I realized I had never learned how to give up. \u003cem\u003eI Promised You Daisie\u003c\/em\u003es is the second volume of my trilogy \u003cem\u003eImperfectly Ordinary\u003c\/em\u003e. As a sequel to \u003cem\u003eA Gift of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the story of my attempt to make sense of life during the disrupted decade that followed my boyhood in a contented traditional New England village. I recount meeting studious, serious-minded Karen Sandstrom, our discovery that we shared just about every opinion in life that mattered, and our student marriage. We were convinced our mutual support would enable us to accomplish more good things in the world than we might have managed on our own. We did not understand that questions we had not yet learned to ask and the emotional baggage we believed we'd each discarded were going to make our life together rougher, steeper and more perilous than the lives we'd traveled alone. When we met, Karen was studying to become a Registered Nurse; I was about to return to college to qualify as a public school teacher. In the end we achieved our goals, but our life together was frighteningly different from the one we'd dreamed of sharing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-03-13T16:22:58-04:00","created_at":"2024-03-13T16:22:58-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1500,"price_min":1500,"price_max":1500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1500,"compare_at_price_min":1500,"compare_at_price_max":1500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40996696457305,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA441-Benjamin","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I Promised You Daisies — Benjamin '66","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1500,"weight":454,"compare_at_price":1500,"inventory_quantity":4,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780982060537","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba441-benjamin-daisies.jpg?v=1710361380"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba441-benjamin-daisies.jpg?v=1710361380","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"I Promised You Daisies by Robert A. Benjamin","id":24847390998617,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba441-benjamin-daisies.jpg?v=1710361380"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba441-benjamin-daisies.jpg?v=1710361380","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Robert A. Benjamin, Class of 1966\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor all of us who came of age during the time of Woodstock, hippies and Vietnam, our paths into adult life were more perilous than they might have been a few innocent years earlier. In 1966, although I had never heard a gun fired in anger, I was among the walking wounded of those days of political, intellectual and moral conflict. I was a fresh-faced, eager high school graduate about to embark on my journey of college, choosing a profession, and marrying my steady girl. No matter their sincerity, all of those dreams were broken and shattered. I faced difficult choices. I bore guilt I'd never imagined. I realized I had never learned how to give up. \u003cem\u003eI Promised You Daisie\u003c\/em\u003es is the second volume of my trilogy \u003cem\u003eImperfectly Ordinary\u003c\/em\u003e. As a sequel to \u003cem\u003eA Gift of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the story of my attempt to make sense of life during the disrupted decade that followed my boyhood in a contented traditional New England village. I recount meeting studious, serious-minded Karen Sandstrom, our discovery that we shared just about every opinion in life that mattered, and our student marriage. We were convinced our mutual support would enable us to accomplish more good things in the world than we might have managed on our own. We did not understand that questions we had not yet learned to ask and the emotional baggage we believed we'd each discarded were going to make our life together rougher, steeper and more perilous than the lives we'd traveled alone. When we met, Karen was studying to become a Registered Nurse; I was about to return to college to qualify as a public school teacher. In the end we achieved our goals, but our life together was frighteningly different from the one we'd dreamed of sharing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7526509445209,"title":"The Life of Franklin Pierce — Hawthorne 1825","handle":"the-life-of-franklin-pierce-hawthorne-1825","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nathaniel Hawthorne, Class of 1825\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eFranklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 - October 8, 1869 [Bowdoin Class of 1824]) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857, an American politician and lawyer. To date, he is the only President from New Hampshire.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2024-03-12T15:30:00-04:00","created_at":"2024-03-12T15:30:00-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1299,"price_min":1299,"price_max":1299,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1299,"compare_at_price_min":1299,"compare_at_price_max":1299,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40993586053209,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA435-Hawthorne","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Life of Franklin Pierce — Hawthorne 1825","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1299,"weight":227,"compare_at_price":1299,"inventory_quantity":4,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781409962632","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba435-hawthorne-pierce.jpg?v=1710271802"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba435-hawthorne-pierce.jpg?v=1710271802","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Life of Franklin Pierce, by Nathaniel Hawthorne","id":24843579555929,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba435-hawthorne-pierce.jpg?v=1710271802"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba435-hawthorne-pierce.jpg?v=1710271802","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nathaniel Hawthorne, Class of 1825\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eFranklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 - October 8, 1869 [Bowdoin Class of 1824]) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857, an American politician and lawyer. To date, he is the only President from New Hampshire.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":7248725016665,"title":"The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74","handle":"the-tin-ticket-swiss-75","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe convict women who built a continent...\"A moving and fascinating story.\" -Adam Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2023-03-01T12:34:56-05:00","created_at":"2023-03-01T12:34:56-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40424604270681,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"422-Swiss","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780425243077","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23807993020505,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe convict women who built a continent...\"A moving and fascinating story.\" -Adam Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

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{"id":7248717938777,"title":"The Woman's Right — Gould '37","handle":"the-womans-right-gould-37","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Franklin F. Gould, Jr., Class of 1937\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Gould was a prosperous farmer and a Civil War hero when Lizzie Foster married him in 1869. But life with a frugal, verbally-abusive husband proved to be more difficult than Lizzie could have ever imagined.After giving birth to eight children in sixteen years, Lizzie Gould decides she's had enough of Tom, a husband who is obviously more interested in satisfying his needs than in protecting her health. Lizzie's brother arrives and provides her with a much-needed escape route-or what she wryly calls \"the underground railway out of her slavery.\" She quickly and courageously departs with her two youngest children, leaving her oldest daughter, Mary Emma, in charge of her other five siblings. Moving in with her father, Lizzie discovers that it is unheard of for a woman to divorce for freedom. But C. V. Emerson, a friendly attorney, assures Lizzie that separating from her husband will be much easier than she suspects.With excerpts from letters, diaries, and newspapers, author Frank Gould tells the true story of his grandmother's flight from oppression and her new destiny, asserting it is the Woman's Right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the back cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-03-01T12:19:39-05:00","created_at":"2023-03-01T12:19:40-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1495,"compare_at_price_min":1495,"compare_at_price_max":1495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40424598339673,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA240-Gould","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Woman's Right — Gould '37","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780595342860","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book cover of The Woman's Right: A story of my Maine grandmother 1848-1927 by Franklin F. Gould Jr.","id":23807951241305,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Franklin F. Gould, Jr., Class of 1937\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Gould was a prosperous farmer and a Civil War hero when Lizzie Foster married him in 1869. But life with a frugal, verbally-abusive husband proved to be more difficult than Lizzie could have ever imagined.After giving birth to eight children in sixteen years, Lizzie Gould decides she's had enough of Tom, a husband who is obviously more interested in satisfying his needs than in protecting her health. Lizzie's brother arrives and provides her with a much-needed escape route-or what she wryly calls \"the underground railway out of her slavery.\" She quickly and courageously departs with her two youngest children, leaving her oldest daughter, Mary Emma, in charge of her other five siblings. Moving in with her father, Lizzie discovers that it is unheard of for a woman to divorce for freedom. But C. V. Emerson, a friendly attorney, assures Lizzie that separating from her husband will be much easier than she suspects.With excerpts from letters, diaries, and newspapers, author Frank Gould tells the true story of his grandmother's flight from oppression and her new destiny, asserting it is the Woman's Right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the back cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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{"id":6539465588825,"title":"Song for an Unsung Hero — Lund '57","handle":"song-for-an-unsung-hero-lund-57","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Erik Lund, Class of 1957\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiane Theis Lund belonged to that generation of women who came of age in the 1950s and '60s, just on the threshold of the highly vocal, sometimes radical, feminist movement. As a young woman, Diane learned that the barriers to women were high—but this represented a challenge, and against all odds of the time, she excelled at Stanford, then at Harvard Law School, and then, for a time, in private law practice. Turning to public-interest law, she became an advocate and lobbyist for the interests of women, poor people, and minorities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a quiet and determined way, Diane Lund was instrumental in improving the lives of women in Massachusetts—young and old, privileged and poor—and her work had a ripple effect across the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-04T12:25:12-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-04T12:25:03-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":2500,"price_min":2500,"price_max":2500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2500,"compare_at_price_min":2500,"compare_at_price_max":2500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39258125860953,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA282-Lund","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Song for an Unsung Hero — Lund '57","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2500,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780615274478","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba282-lund-song.jpg?v=1614878736"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba282-lund-song.jpg?v=1614878736","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Song for an Unsung Hero by Erik Lund '57","id":20243144966233,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba282-lund-song.jpg?v=1614878736"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba282-lund-song.jpg?v=1614878736","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Erik Lund, Class of 1957\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiane Theis Lund belonged to that generation of women who came of age in the 1950s and '60s, just on the threshold of the highly vocal, sometimes radical, feminist movement. As a young woman, Diane learned that the barriers to women were high—but this represented a challenge, and against all odds of the time, she excelled at Stanford, then at Harvard Law School, and then, for a time, in private law practice. Turning to public-interest law, she became an advocate and lobbyist for the interests of women, poor people, and minorities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a quiet and determined way, Diane Lund was instrumental in improving the lives of women in Massachusetts—young and old, privileged and poor—and her work had a ripple effect across the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538925899865,"title":"Dogging It — Wagner","handle":"dogging-it-wagner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jonathan Wagner, Bowdoin Alumnus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book of self-discovery is about much more than a failed marriage. Author Jonathan Wagner shares his journey of moving on and discovering the divine presence in the world with the help of his dogs. A testament that dogs are truly man’s best friend, \u003cem\u003eDogging It Through Divorce and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful exploration of why dogs mean so much to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-08-11T15:12:26-04:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T16:18:19-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1995,"compare_at_price_min":1995,"compare_at_price_max":1995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256834539609,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA23-Wagner","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dogging It — Wagner","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1995,"inventory_quantity":7,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781684014620","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Dogging It by Jonathan Wagner","id":20240078176345,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jonathan Wagner, Bowdoin Alumnus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book of self-discovery is about much more than a failed marriage. Author Jonathan Wagner shares his journey of moving on and discovering the divine presence in the world with the help of his dogs. A testament that dogs are truly man’s best friend, \u003cem\u003eDogging It Through Divorce and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful exploration of why dogs mean so much to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538914529369,"title":"The Forgotten Longfellow: The Saga of Alexander Longfellow, Sr.","handle":"the-forgotten-longfellow-the-saga-of-alexander-longfellow-sr","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Richard Shain Cohen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA provocative biography of one of the country's first explorer-topographers, [Bowdoin College alumnus] Alexander Longfellow, Sr., the neglected brother of famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin Class of 1825]. With humor, self-effacement, grace and touching affection, this man wrote letters to his family, drew maps and drawings, and lived the rough life as he explored and charted the far reaches of the American landscape, shook hands with presidents, sailed around the Horn, and toured the South through the ruins of the Civil War, leaving us a rich legacy of documents to give us a rare picture of America in the 1880's.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:50:51-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:50:44-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":2599,"price_min":2599,"price_max":2599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2599,"compare_at_price_min":2599,"compare_at_price_max":2599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256813535321,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA290-Longfellow","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Forgotten Longfellow: The Saga of Alexander Longfellow, Sr.","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2599,"inventory_quantity":10,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780976597575","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba290-longfellow-forgotten.jpg?v=1614804670"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba290-longfellow-forgotten.jpg?v=1614804670","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Forgotten Longfellow by Richard Shain Cohen","id":20240021979225,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba290-longfellow-forgotten.jpg?v=1614804670"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba290-longfellow-forgotten.jpg?v=1614804670","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Richard Shain Cohen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA provocative biography of one of the country's first explorer-topographers, [Bowdoin College alumnus] Alexander Longfellow, Sr., the neglected brother of famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin Class of 1825]. With humor, self-effacement, grace and touching affection, this man wrote letters to his family, drew maps and drawings, and lived the rough life as he explored and charted the far reaches of the American landscape, shook hands with presidents, sailed around the Horn, and toured the South through the ruins of the Civil War, leaving us a rich legacy of documents to give us a rare picture of America in the 1880's.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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{"id":4786545557593,"title":"Iron Jaw: A Skipper Tells His Story — Bamforth '51","handle":"iron-jaw-a-skipper-tells-his-story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Richard Bamforth '51 and Charles Bamforth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary life of Captain Charles N. Bamforth spanned most of the twentieth century, beginning with his childhood at the turn of the century and continuing through his retirement and death during the Cold War era. During his sixty years at sea, Captain Bamforth experienced the Depression, two World Wars, and a number of troublesome labor disputes. Through it all, he also had to navigate loneliness, confusion, and marriage to both his family and the sea. His story is told in meticulous detail and with refreshing honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptain Bamforth’'s handwritten diaries, logs, and personal letters all have been carefully compiled by his sons, Charles and Richard, and reveal as much about the hard-working, unassuming courage of the captain as they do about the turbulent times during which he lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-02-06T16:55:18-05:00","created_at":"2021-02-06T16:51:50-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1500,"price_min":1500,"price_max":1500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1500,"compare_at_price_min":1500,"compare_at_price_max":1500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32375608115289,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA273","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Iron Jaw: A Skipper Tells His Story — Bamforth '51","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0805954171","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba273-bamforth-iron.jpg?v=1614022721"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba273-bamforth-iron.jpg?v=1614022721","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Iron Jaw, eds. Richard Bamforth '51 and Charles Bamforth","id":7515877965913,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba273-bamforth-iron.jpg?v=1614022721"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba273-bamforth-iron.jpg?v=1614022721","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Richard Bamforth '51 and Charles Bamforth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary life of Captain Charles N. Bamforth spanned most of the twentieth century, beginning with his childhood at the turn of the century and continuing through his retirement and death during the Cold War era. During his sixty years at sea, Captain Bamforth experienced the Depression, two World Wars, and a number of troublesome labor disputes. Through it all, he also had to navigate loneliness, confusion, and marriage to both his family and the sea. His story is told in meticulous detail and with refreshing honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptain Bamforth’'s handwritten diaries, logs, and personal letters all have been carefully compiled by his sons, Charles and Richard, and reveal as much about the hard-working, unassuming courage of the captain as they do about the turbulent times during which he lived.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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{"id":4761651413081,"title":"Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America","handle":"whatever-it-takes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Paul Tough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"about-content active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would it take?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2020-12-10T10:02:08-05:00","created_at":"2020-12-10T10:02:00-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1599,"price_min":1599,"price_max":1599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1599,"compare_at_price_min":1599,"compare_at_price_max":1599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32311513088089,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA258-Canada","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1599,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780547247960T","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough, biography of Geoffrey Canada 1974","id":7515914797145,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Paul Tough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"about-content active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would it take?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":4723705479257,"title":"No Rules Rule — Hastings '83","handle":"no-rules-rules-netflix-and-the-culture-of-reinvention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Reed Hastings '83\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewith Erin Meyer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNetflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrel­evant. At Netflix, you don’t try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees don’t need approval, and the company pays top of market. 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