Ruttman self-published "Voices of Brookline" through Peter E. Randall Publisher LLC in 2005; Michael Dukakis wrote the foreword. The book features Ruttman's biographies of 75 Brookline citizens. In addition to Dukakis, Wallace, and Dickson, the book's subjects include journalist Ellen Goodman; architecture critic and author Jane Holtz Kay; Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Ketterle; New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft; composer Osvaldo Golijov; pianist and composer Ran Blake; many ordinary citizens involved in town government, education, preservation, and other pursuits; and two notable sports venues, the Longwood Cricket Club (site of the first Davis Cup) and The Country Club (which hosted the 1999 Ryder Cup). Boston University professor Howard Zinn wrote of "Voices of Brookline", "[This] book is a model of how an oral history of a town ought to be written."