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Recently published books from Alicia Patterson Fellows. The Alicia Patterson Foundation is proud to announce the release of four new books from past fellows. Links to the books’ Amazon pages are listed below. Wealth and Power by Orville Schell (APF”80) and John Delury. (Random House).China experts Schell and Delury focus on eleven key Chinese individuals to show that China is trying to restore its national greatness through fuqiang (wealth and power).http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Power-Chinas-Twenty-first-Century/dp/067964… The Butler by Wil Haygood (APF’ 1988). (Atria Books)Haygood’s interviews with Eugene Allen, who worked as the White House butler for 34 years, has been made into a movie by Lee Daniels. Haygood’s book recounts the experiences that Allen had while serving eight presidents. The film, which opens in mid-August, 2013, stars Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Vanessa Redgrave, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robin Williams.http://www.amazon.com/Butler-Witness-History-Wil-Haygood/dp/1476752990 The Science Writers’ Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age – co-edited by Michelle Nijhuis (APF’2011) and Thomas Hayden. (Da Capo Press).Two dozen award-winning science writers discuss how

APF Fellow Donna DeCesare has just released her first book Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs. Some of the original work for this book was done during Ms. DeCesare’s 1997 fellowship. The book is a bi-lingual memoir of Ms. DeCesare’s time photographing gang-life in Central America. Ms. DeCesare’s fellowship title was “Youth Identity and Gang Violence in the Americas.” Her fellowship work covered life during and after gang participation in countries from Haiti to El Salvador. Ms. DeCesare has an event for the book release at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles on May 9th. On June 2nd her work will be featured in the show, War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, also at the Annenberg Space for Photography. Please visit Donna DeCesare’s website for more information on this book, other projects and events.

Please enjoy this lovely article by Gabrielle Esperdy on the American Roadside photography of 2003 fellow, John Margolies. During his fellowship Mr.Margolies explored the architecture of roadside and main street through vivid photographs. This article was published in Buildings & Landscapes 19 (Fall 2012). As always we encourage past fellows to keep the Alicia Patterson community up-to-date on their accomplishments. Please send us any articles, book or other media you have been a part of so that we may share it with the rest of the community. Mainstream and Marginal

The Journalism Center on Children & Families has awarded a 2012 Casey Medal to Rita Henley Jensen (APF’94) who edited an exposé of the huge federal hunger dollars being spent on infant formula. The Casey Medals are awarded by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at University of Maryland. The citation included: WINNER: “Infant Formula Companies Milk US Food Program,” Women’s eNews, Molly M. Ginty, Corinna Barnard (ed.) and Rita Henley Jensen (ed.) A meticulous exposé of how industry-sponsored research, lobbying and advertising by infant formula companies have led to a federal government subsidized market for infant formula, despite global consensus on the superior health benefits of breast milk. The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program distributes more than half the infant formula sold in the U.S. but the supply provided to new moms is not enough to feed their babies for a full month. As a result, impoverished mothers bear the burden of high out-of-pocket monthly expenses to feed their growing babies. Judges praised this investigation by Women’s eNews as being “in the best

Jon Lowenstein (APF – 2008) has compiled his recent work on deportation and immigration into “Shadow Lives.” Jon won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a TED Global Fellowship. He is a member of the NOOR international photo agency, based in Amsterdam. His work can be seen here: http://www.shadowlivesusa.org/