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B O O K S
M U S I C
& F I L M
Liberty & Learning —
The Essential James Madison
BY PHIL BIGLER (’74,’76M) AND ANNIE LORSBACH (’08M)
THE JAMES MADISON CENTER, 2009; ISBN-10: 0615230717
Phil Bigler (’74, ’76M), director of the James Madison
Center, and Annie Lorsbach (’08M) focus on
James Madison’s intellectual contributions in a way
that is accessible to all readers. “Going issue by issue
— education, religious freedom, republicanism — Liberty and
Learning shows that Madison, from his time as a curious student
to his years as president of the United States, displayed a genius
that benefits our country to this day,” says Levar Stoney (’04),
director of the Democratic Party of Virginia.
Bigler also deals directly with Madison’s failure to end slavery.
James Madison
Center Director Phil
Bigler (‘74, ‘76M),
author of Liberty &
Learning: the Essential
James Madison.
Several appendices highlight interesting facts about James and Dolley Madison and
provide relevant information about Madison’s life and contributions to the American
republic. Proceeds from the sale of Liberty and Learning support JMU’s Donald Robertson Scholarship, which is offered annually
by the James Madison Center in honor of Madison’s first teacher. Robertson’s influence on the young Madison was enormous, and
it was said that this talented teacher “nurtured greatness and laid the foundation for some of the most fruitful careers in American
history.” For information and scholarship requirements or to support the fund visit www.jmu.edu/madison/center/home.htm.
Big Sycamore Stands
Alone: The Western
Apaches, Aravaipa,
and the Struggle
for Place
BY IAN W. RECORD (’93)
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
PRESS, 2008; ISBN: 978-0-
8061-3972-2
Western
Apaches have
long regarded
the corner of
Arizona encompassing
Aravaipa
Canyon
as their sacred
homeland. Ian
Record (’93),
senior lecturer for the American
Indian Studies Department at
the University of Arizona, says
his book “examines the evolving
relationship between this people
and this place, illustrating the
enduring power of Aravaipa to
shape and sustain contemporary
‘... examines the evolving relationship
between this people and this place,
illustrating the enduring power of
Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary
Apache society.’
— Ian W. Record (’93)
Apache society.” Record articulates
Aravaipa’s cultural legacy
through the eyes of some of its
descendants, bringing Apache
voices, knowledge and perspectives
to the fore. Focusing on
the Camp Grant Massacre as the
narrative centerpiece, Record
employs an approach that
reflects how the Apaches conceptualize
their history and identity,
interweaving four distinct narrative
threads: contemporary oral
histories of individuals from the
San Carlos reservation, historic
documentation of Apache relationships
to Aravaipa following
the reservation’s establishment,
descriptions of pre-reservation
subsistence practices, and a history
of early Apache struggles to
maintain their connection with
Aravaipa in the face of hostility
from outsiders.
✱ http://uanews.org/
node/22946
Last Words and the
Death Penalty: Voices
of the Condemned and
Their Co-victims
BY SCOTT VOLLUM
LFB SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING,
2007; ISBN-10: 159332264X
Scott Vollum, JMU professor
of justice studies, analyzes
the content of last statements
of the condemned as well as
those made by co-victims as
he seeks to give voice to these
two groups. Vollum finds the
most dominant themes among
the condemned are centered on
transformation, redemption and
positive messages of connection
to others. The most dominant
themes of covictims
are
more conflicting
with a mix
of frustration
with the death
penalty process,
relief that
it is over, and
desire for justice
or revenge.
Through condemned and covictims’
words, readers learn
that the death penalty is neither
a soothing salve for the pain
and suffering of co-victims nor
simply an extraction of evil and
irredeemable criminals.
✱ www. lfbscholarly.com/criminal_
justice/vollum_322649.htm
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