Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

Ten Thousand Central Parks: A Climate-Change Parable by David Brown Morris ’64.

January 13, 2026

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(Fordham University Press, 2026).

As we consider our relationship with the planet in the age of climate change, David Morris asks: Can we continue to be mere stewards of nature, or could parks help us reimage our role as participants inseparable from the natural world?

In Ten Thousand Central Parks, Morris leads us on a journey through the history of New York City’s urban oasis while using it as an unlikely environmental parable. From its initial funding in 1853 to its completion in 1876, the park was America’s first large-scale public works project, undertaken as the nation grappled with the Civil War. Its creation offers a powerful lesson — even in turbulent times, cities can be reimagined, and ecological transformations are possible.