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Arts & CultureIn printBooks by Yale authors The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror "It was a crash out of a blue sky," wrote a New York City reporter, but the event was not September 11. Rather, it was the September 16, 1920, explosion of a dynamite-filled wagon parked on Wall Street. Gage tells a gripping tale of homegrown terrorism.
Blood in the Cage: Mixed Martial Arts, Pat Miletich, and the Furious Rise of the UFC (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25)—L. Jon Wertheim '93.
"Mixed martial arts is not about two reprobates beating each other senseless," argues Sports Illustrated senior writer Wertheim. In a gruesomely fascinating book, he explores the appeal, for fighters and legions of fans alike, of the staggering violence that takes place within the steel cages of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness Hysteria was originally attributed to a wandering uterus and associated with a raft of "female" symptoms, from paralysis to heart palpitations. Yet males suffer from the same ailments. Micale offers a provocative look at the reasons why the idea of male neurosis was suppressed for so long.
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin Press, $27.95)—Martha A. Sandweis '85PhD. Clarence King, Class of 1862, was an eminent explorer and author. He was also a man with a secret. In order to marry the woman he loved without causing scandal or sacrificing his career, King, who was white, led a double life as a black porter for 13 years. Princeton historian Sandweiss tells the stories of Clarence King/James Todd and his wife, Ada.
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