Thomas Savage
Thomas Savage (STH’64) of Sarasota, Fla., writes, “I think most would agree that we live in difficult times. I want to share with my fellow BU alumni that I’ve coauthored a book, Creating Life Before Death: Discover Your Amazing Self (Common Ground Research Networks, 2020), with Bernard Phillips, a professor emeritus of sociology, Andy Plotkin (DGE’67, CAS’69, COM’71, GRS’77), Neil S. Weiss, and Max O. Spitzer, which proposes helpful guidance for these issues. We five authors have pooled our backgrounds as minister-cop, sociologist-philosopher, social psychologist, economist, and medical social scientist. In contrast to the scattered bits and pieces of knowledge of human behavior that has been the direction of the social sciences, we present integrated knowledge that is the basis for progress on complex world problems, such as aggression and alienation. With a foreword by the eminent sociological theorist Jonathan H. Turner, this book can take you where no one has gone before. Academic research has been amplified by true-life amusing stories revealing the ups and downs of daily life in full detail. Many have claimed that what they are doing is changing the world. With no exaggeration, Creating Life Before Death actually takes steps in that direction.” Visit www.theamazingself.com.
From the Fall 2020 issue.