Joe McQuaid

”Endangered Species” by David Goethel. Peter E. Randall Publisher. $24.95.

“All Join Hands: Dudley Laufman and the New England Country Dance Tradition” by Thomas S. Curren. $25. Peter E. Randall Publisher.

Natalie Jacobson seems much too nice to have been a hard-news reporter/anchor/host. Yet for more than three decades at WCVB-TV in Boston, that’s what she was, covering everything from Boston

”That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life” by Garrison Keillor

”The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites” By Ty Gagne

EDITOR’S NOTE: Joe McQuaid succeeded Nackey Loeb as president and publisher of the Union Leader Corp.

For a university president, James W. Dean Jr. writes in a style remarkably free of academic jargon. And that’s a good thing, since Dean, now president at the University of

For a university president, James W. Dean Jr. writes in a style remarkably free of academic jargon. And that’s a good thing, since Dean, now president at the University of