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New Books From Local Authors
Compiled by Susan Soper
The Insider’s Guide to Your First Year of Law School, by Justin Spizman (Adams Media, $14.95): Just in time for entering attorney-wannabes comes this student’s insights of daily trials and triumphs. Call it a survival guide – things Spizman wishes he had known before entering Georgia State University School of Law: how to balance the work load and the stress, deciding on what kind of law to pursue, strategies for a successful career.
Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America’s Eagle Scouts, by Alvin Townley (Thomas Duane Books, $24.95): The Atlanta author (Troop 103) comes from a long line of Eagle Scouts and writes about the strong foundation scouting offers and how it helps even throughout adulthood. He traveled across the country to share the stories of such Eagle Scouts as Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft founder, former Sen. Bill Bradley, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sen. Richard Lugar and astronaut Jim Lovell. The book illustrates the impact Eagle Scouts have had on American history and culture.
Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin, by Roland W. Haas (Potomac Books, $24.95): A gripping story of how a Purdue University student was recruited by the CIA, went through intensive training and assassinated a couple of international drug dealers on his very first mission. Over a period of more than 30 years, he posed as a health club owner while going on search-and-kill missions. Most recently, he was involved in the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba. Haas, an Atlantan, never shared his secret life with his wife and children. He has battled – and recovered from – alcoholism in his dark days.
Oglethorpe University, by Anne A. Salter and Laura Masce (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99): Hermance Stadium, shown on the cover here, is much the same today as it was in the 1930s except that, instead of football, baseball is played there now. But much else about the Atlanta liberal arts college has changed since it was chartered in 1935 as a Presbyterian institution in Midway, Ga. This history and more than 200 vintage photographs are a delightful document of the school’s history, students, faculty and campus. Salter and Masce work at Oglethorpe’s Philip Weltner Library.
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