Author! Author!
Meadow Lakes enjoys popularity for many reasons but especially for those residents who are thinkers, teachers, and writers. This page will link to brief biographies of several of these creative people and highlights their recent publications. When you click on a link, be sure to allow time for it to come up.
Recently published is a volume by Dr. Ellie Whitney title
d, The Tallahassee Coal Plant Fight 2005-2007.
As you will note in the biography excerpted from her book cover, Ellie is also the author of Priceless Florida, a beautiful tome that describes the beauty and ecology of that state. To read an introduction to Ellie Whitney and her recent books, click on this link:
Statistics for Experimenters, Design, Innovation, and Discovery
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To read about this classic statistics textbook, Statistics for Experimenters, by Dr. J. Stuart Hunter, one of the world's eminent statisticians and a pioneer in industrial experimental design click on this link:
Memories of World War II and Its Aftermath
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An autobiography by Inge Gross
To read about the author and her account of World War II, click on this link:
Nine Lives
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The late Malvern J. Gross was both a pilot and financial wizard. To read about Mal's book, Nine Lives, Click on this link:
Nobody's Perfect: Bill Bernbach and the Golden Age of Advertising
Writing under her professional name, Doris Willens, Meadow Lakes Resident, Doris Willens Kaplan in 2009 wrote the story of advertising from her 18-year experience as Public Relations Director of Doyle Dane Bernbach.
Doris is also author of Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays. To read a brief intoduction to these books, click on the following link:
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Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Dr. Carl E. Schorske, a Meadow Lakes resident, is an American cultural historian and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 Dr. Schorske won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for this scholarly book that continues to be highly significant in modern European intellectual history.
Dr. Schorske, a PhD recipient from Harvard University, has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University. At Princeton he was Dayton-Stockton Professor of History. In 1987, Professor Schorske was named by Time Magazine one of the nation's ten top academic leaders.
Carl’s book is available in the Meadow Lakes Library.
When the Railroad was King
Writing for the Michigan Historical Association in 1966, Dr. Frank N. Elliott described the nineteenth century railroad era in Michigan. October 17, 1839 saw the arrival, amid great celebration, of the railroad in Ann Arbor. The trip from Ann Arbor to Detroit, a mere thirty-eight miles, that had taken farmers a day and a half to traverse, could now be travelled in a little more than two hours. It took the development of a reliable transportation network to make possible the development of Michigan's many resources. The arrival of the railroad was, therefore, greeted by all as the harbinger of a high destiny.
This short book is a quick and interesting read. A student of history will enjoy it as an important study of the early history of Michigan and the role railroads played in the development of the United States.