Class of: 1959

Bill Brennan

Bill Brennan (CAS’59) of Annandale, Va., published his seventh novel,The Choice Not Made (CreateSpace, 2017), an alternate history about the last weeks of the Civil War as attention focuses on reconstruction. “Abraham Lincoln faces an existential crisis as he addresses the problems with his plan for reconstruction versus the one proposed by radicals in Congress,” Bill writes. “As he weighs options, a cabal plots his assassination.”

From the Summer 2015 issue.