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Everybody's Grandpa: Fifty Years Behind the Mike
Louis M "Grandpa" Jones
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All aboard for a fun-filled, nostalgic journey to the Hawai'i of yesteryear! More than 220 illustrations, ranging from watercolors for restaurant menus to catchy tourist brochures, fondly recall Hawai'i's "golden years." Come along for the ride!
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Very disappointing and incredibly pointless.......2006-11-19
This book is very disappointing. I lived on Oahu in the late 50s and early 60s so I know the time period and what the Islands were like. They were heaven. No doubt about it. This book does not capture even an iota of that heaven. This is a mishmash of common ephemera poorly reproduced. There is no depth to the subject matter. To say there are two authors is a joke since what text is available could have been written by a travel agent in Manhattan who never left THAT island. Two guys with some old brochures is more like it. I had hoped that the book would deal with what the Islands were like during the time period, five years after the war and statehood in 1959. This is simply a mainlanders idea of what Hawaii was like and it goes no deeper than an aged worn brochure in the bottom of a dusty drawer.
And to make things worse they chose a large format trim size which allowed them to print a lot of poor quality photos, reproduced from much smaller brochures, at the books full trim size. Photos that originally were meant to be small are suddenly large and blurry because they had to worry about dot patterns when enlarged. Shame on the "authors" and publisher. A smaller trim size would have benefited the reader. The art ends up looking too often like filler. I'm sure the pages looked fine on the computer screen when the book was being layed out, but suddenly when the thing is sitting in your lap you have to wonder what they were thinking. The whole thing looks cheap, which at $24.99 it's not.
Though I have yet to find the definitive book about Hawaii pre-statehood I can recommend the following two far superior books, each also full of ephemera, but produced with much better production values, and cheaper than this bloated waste of paper:
"Hawai'i At Play" and
"To Honolulu in Five Days"
Get this Book if You Can Find It--Wiki, Wiki!!!.......2003-12-20
Retro Hawaiian chic----it's a happening trend!! First published about five years too soon for the now-oh-so-hot design theme of Old Hawaii (assuming you consider the 1950's old, you old goat!), Fred Basten's book is nothing more or less than a 100+ page collection of vintage photos, postcards, matchbook covers, and (best of all) 1950's advertisements depicting the joys which await you in tropical, scenic Hawaii! Here are the famous Aloha Airlines advertising maps, the Dole Pineapple ads, and the delightful hotel ads that make you want to pick up a phone, dial the number (you had to do that back then---no buttons!), and book a room. There are plenty of breathtaking photographs as well, from scenic drives to sunsets to tourists at play (including a few of the author himself!). And it's nice to see some things never change: the luau menu printed on page 104 is almost exactly identical to the menu of the Old Lahina Luau, Maui, circa 2003. (Right down to the coconut cake for dessert!) Two minor quibbles: at 111 pages, it's at least two hundred pages too short! (With all the pictures, if it were longer it would cost $50, but I for one would gladly pay it.) Also, Basten has made the decision to keep the written text as short as possible and let the pictures speak for themselves. Even though I think this is a wise move, I would have welcomed some more discussion about Hawaii in the fifties, how it became a state, etc. Still, the fabulous photos and other displayed goodies will have you planning your next trip right away. Not an easy book to find outside of Hawaii (I found mine in a famous Hawaiian retail store.), but worth the effort. So, get this book wiki, wiki (quickly). Your coffee table is bare without it. Aloha!!!
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As boomers reach midlife faster than a new Beatles CD can climb the charts, many are wondering if they'll have sufficient resources to comfortably make it through their golden years. Investment guru Charles Schwab's You're Fifty--Now What? addresses these concerns with a step-by-step road map to help the middle-aged assess where they're at, determine where they want to go, and pick the proper mix of investments to get there. "While getting older isn't a bad thing," Schwab writes, "being unprepared for it is. And by not understanding the financial part of your future, you sabotage yourself and limit your choices." Not surprisingly--given the author's background as founder of the discount brokerage that bears his name--the book contends that you have to remain an active investor for the rest of your life in order to make it financially over the long haul. To do so, it advocates using as aggressive an approach as you can comfortably handle, centered on a combination of broad-based index funds and actively managed mutual funds or individual stocks.
With plenty of easy-to-use worksheets, Schwab helps you take stock of everything you've accumulated, determine how much it costs you to live now, and estimate what it will take to maintain that lifestyle into the future. The latter is determined by calculating everything from projected housing and tax obligations to food and entertainment expenses, while life-expectancy tables, inflation adjustment factors, and investment return rates allow you to see where you stand versus where you need to be. Schwab then addresses reaching these goals through a proper investment mix. (Sidebars explaining the basics guide even novices through these critical steps.) Additional chapters detail ways to develop a regular long-term cash flow, and suggest how to monitor its progress while making adjustments when necessary. There is also information on financial advisors, insurance, estate plans, and charitable giving, adding up to a wealth of specifics presented in a manner that virtually everyone should be able to understand and follow. --Howard Rothman
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Charles Schwab is one of America’s most trusted and respected names in financial services. In the bestselling
You’re Fifty—Now What? Schwab offers you his advice and support on how to retire with the money you’ll need to have the kind of life you want. You’ll learn:
* The best investment strategies
* How to estimate how much you’ll need
* How to choose investments for the second half of your life
* The ins and outs of insurance and how to be adequately insured
* The fine art of estate planning
* The tools of charitable giving
* And much more
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Every retiree should read.......2007-02-16
I agree with the other reviewers that this book is an outstanding essay for those who want to learn how to select stocks for a value portfolio. Where we differ is that for the typical investor he does not have the resources to build a properly diversified portfolio- either financial or mental resources. Value stocks do provide returns in excess of broad market returns but in order to have adequate diversification you must assemble several hundred issues well beyond the resources of the average investor. Further one must have the time and skill to evaluate several thousand issues.
I can offer a solution to this problem. I want to recommend for you a book titled How to Make Money in the Stock Market-Buy 2,500 different stocks for $1000 - Pay no Commission This book is a must for those wanting to find out about indexing (passive investing) and why it is the superior method for the small investor (and big one too). This book is an outstanding guide to personal investing. It will be useful to all investors from novices to highly the highly experienced. This book prepares the reader to approach investing from the standpoint of the underlying science. It is the antithesis of a 'get rich quick scheme'.
All aspects of Modern Portfolio Theory and passive (index) investing are explained in a through and easily understood manner. The aspect I like most is that as well as a solid theoretical foundation the book is very practical and shows the reader how to create (and more importantly) and manage over time a successful portfolio. This is a great book- for the beginning investor, it's a great place to start and for the experienced investor there are many valuable suggestions.
It's a shame to think of how much money investors have lost "investing" in the stock market over the years. I wish I had read this little book years ago. The chapter on automatic investing recommends a number of portfolios that follow modern portfolio theory and adjust risk as you age without any effort on the part of the reader at all. Had this book been written years ago and had I followed its directions I would be rich today of that I am certain. Nevertheless I will pursue one of the portfolios recommended and stick to my chosen asset plan.
Piscaqua Research in a study covering the period 1987-96 found that only 10 out of 145 major pension funds, or just seven percent, out performed a portfolio consisting of a simple 605/405 mix of the S&P 500 index and the Lehman Bond index respectively.
Os it logical I ask for you to believe that you can predict which actively managed funds will out perform, or are you overconfident of your skills? If you are trying to find the great fund managers who will out perform in the future ask yourself: what am I going to do differently in terms of identifying the future winning fund managers, than did the pension plans and their advisors? And if you are not going to something different what logic is there in playing a game at which others with superior resources have consistently failed?
If you a really serious in finding an investment technique that will provide you with reasonable return with less risk I suggest the following little book.
Just click on the title to find the book. How to Make Money in the Stock Market-Buy 2,500 Different Stocks-Pay no Commission
uninformative.......2004-11-09
This book is uninformative and in this book Charles pretends to have opened his brokerage firm for retail investors but it isn't because the CHARLES SCHWAB BROKERAGE IS TOO EXPENSIVE IT REQUIRES $10,000 TO OPEN a Brokerage ACCOUNT for an indiviual investor[also called retail investor]Harrisdirect,Firstade,and Optionsxpress don't require anything to open a brokerage account for individual investor.
Welcome Resource!.......2002-02-06
Schwab's book provides solid and practical information for those of us who no longer can be called young no matter what the definition is. Unfortunately, helpful financial books that target Baby Boomers and older folks are in shamefully short supply! For readers who want another indepth look at the financial issues that face older investors, I'd suggest another excellent book-the Retirement Bible. Like Schwab's book, the Retirement Bible provides advise on recommended portfolio withdrawal levels and devotes an entire chapter to discussing in what order money should be withdrawn during retirement. Unlike Schwab, Lynn O'Shaughnessy, the author of the Retirement Bible, suggests that Roth IRA money should ideally be touched last. I definitely agree with her opinion and many financial experts do too. What I also like about the book is that she demystifies a lot of estate planning issues, which books written by attorneys hopelessly fail at. You can't go wrong getting either of these books.
For Baby Boomers: Should be titled You're 60, Now What?.......2001-11-21
This is a book that everyone should have in their personal development library. Is it a great read or does it have cutting-edge insights? Probably, no. But wisdom is wisdom and doing what's right with your money is more a matter of principle than fancy strategy. If your strategy is too far removed from this book, then you're probably taking on far more risk than you should. I think that a lot more should have been written about wills and trusts for estate planning. That's an area that would have only taken another 10 pages, but would have completed the works and is something that everyone over 50 with bucks needs to know well.
This book is a must read and a real eye opener........2001-10-02
I am in my mid fifties. I have a MA in economics on top of an engineering degree. I was never very interested in investing as an economics student when it was merely a academic subject. I focused on other parts of my study of Economics. Now that I am older and trying to determine if I am indeed able to retire now I am finding the subject of investments much more fascinating and "Your' Fifty...." Extremely informative and helpful in showing me how retire in some comfort and with some confidence that I can sustain that comfort in the face of taxation and inflation throughout the "second half".
I have read several other retirement investment books since this one and found that this one was the best of the lot. I highly recommend it to anyone who planning retirement savings plans or anyone wondering about retirement right now.
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One of the founding members of the California Assemblage movement in the 1950s, George Herms and his colleagues made a name for themselves through their use of the discarded, greatly influencing the Pop artists to come. A 20th-century philosopher who uses objects instead of words to deliver quixotic thoughts, Herms, through his work, starts easy conversations with the viewer, making gentle, sometimes funny statements. All copies of Then and Now are signed.
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Learn how to start new employees off on the right foot. Checklists and exercises show managers and supervisors how to create a motivating climate for new hires. Readers learn how to develop and implement a customized orientation plan for new employees (both salaried and hourly).
Learning Objectives: To present the benefits of planned orientation. To discuss strategies of employee orientation. To show how to develop group orientation. To caution against problems new workers may face.
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A must read for HR/OD Professionals.......2000-04-04
I just started a new position in the public sector. My first assignment was to put in place a new orientation program. So I started searching for an easy to follow book. Boy was I suprised! This book took me through a step by step analysis of what to look for in my program and how to put the pieces of an effective orientation program in place. My organization is well on its way to implementing an effective orientation program design to entice, retain and develop existing employees. If you like you information concise and simple, this book is your best bet on the subject of orientation.
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- Amazing Tale - Fascinating Character
- fascinating account
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Fifty Years Below Zero
Charles D. Brower
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He was known as the King of the Arctic, and "Fifty Years below Zero" was his best-selling autobiographical account. Charlie Bower was only nineteen when he arrived in Point Barrow, Alaska in 1883. He had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle.
Yet adventure had a way of following Charlie Bower. That initial landing turned into a fifty-year-long ice-bound lifestyle. Once he stepped off the whaler and back onto dry, albeit frozen land, Bower took a job as master of the whaling station. But, though commerce brought him north, it was the people that helped keep him there for Charlie soon became fast friends with the native Inuit people. They taught him how to hunt seals on the ice, caribou on the tundra, and whales out on the sea. He learned their secrets, lived in their igloos, navigated in their kayaks and avoided being murdered in their feuds. Plus the young adventurer observed the great dramas of the Far North play out. He saw the last of the sailing ships disappear over the horizon, and watched the first airplane fly in.
For fifty-seven years, through ice storms and northern lights, Charlie Bower maintained both this lonely outpost and his claim as "Uncle Sam's most northerly citizen". A book to remember, "Fifty Years below Zero" is illustrated with photos by the author.
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Amazing Tale - Fascinating Character.......2005-04-09
Charlie Brower is one of the unique and historical "characters" of the Far North. I'll admit he is a distant relative and he was one of the family legends that I thought a tall tale until I read the book. I am amazed that folks got around so much in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Not only around the world, but across the Arctic tundra on days journeys via dog sled, cheating death at many a turn. The basic story of a WASP man learning local Inupiaq traditions is facinating, along with the accounts of an assortment of folks who tripped by Barrow, AK, the most northern point in the US. The evolution of Barrow and how Alaska changed in the 20th Century is interesting; native traditions are not perfect either. This book should be read with the more recent "Sadie Brower Neakok : An Inupiaq Woman" by Margaret B. Blackman. Sadie is one of his many children, and her account is a companion to "50 Years." She was born at the end of his book and then carries on from her mixed heritage in the continuum of Alaska history. Though not as great a tale, it is useful to see how the story continued.
fascinating account.......1999-06-16
Charles Brower lived in Northern Alaska for over 50 years. This is an extremely interesting account of a remarkable life.
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- Blatantly biased against Charles
- Hanoverian History Repeats Itself in Prince Charles
- When will the full analysis be made?
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- Don't buy this book; you've heard it all before.
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Charles at Fifty
Anthony Holden
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Every 10 years, Anthony Holden writes a biography of Prince Charles, and they keep getting better as Charles's life gets worse. When Charles quit talking to Holden, Diana opened up. "Why must the British pride themselves so on their emotional restraint?" she asked Holden. "Look what it's done to Charles: he's an emotional cripple. It's not his fault, it was the way he was brought up." Holden tells the whole story of what one source calls "the most unnatural ... and loathsome family since Manson's," though he mostly blames Charles's emotionally AWOL mother and harsh father, and he coolly assesses Diana's calculating, actressy side. Holden shows how they assaulted each other via journalists: Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story being answered the next day with a Di-bashing by Penny Junor (whose 1998 book Charles: Victim or Villain? is said to bash Di posthumously).
Holden offers delightful one-stop gossip shopping for dirt on the sordid, sometimes funny royal soap opera. Did you know Camilla, Charles's true love, is descended from Charles's ancestor's tootsie, known as "La Favorita" and described as "the most perfect mistress in the history of royal infidelity"? Or that Camilla's alleged line with Charles was, "My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather's mistress--so how about it?" Besides Diana's sorrow, consider Charles's second-most-beloved mistress, "Kanga," who withered away and died after Camilla lured Charles away for lifelong al fresco sex. Holden says a cache of Kanga's letters may spark another scandal. Perhaps we'll read them in Holden's Charles at 60. --Tim Appelo
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Charles, Prince of Wales, turns fifty on November 14, 1998. Since the tragic death of Princess Diana, his public and private lives have been in more turmoil than ever. Britain's leading authority on the prince is Anthony Holden, who has written two previous biographies of Charles. The first, published when Charles was thirty, was a number one bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic; the second, published ten years later, caused huge public controversy for suggesting--four years before Andrew Morton's book--that the Waleses' marriage was in trouble.
Now Holden continues this unique series with a third, even more dramatic portrait of the ever-changing prince. Holden's first book was a portrait of a lonely, confused bachelor still living at home with his parents; his second was about a driven but still troubled man, the father of two sons, trapped in an unhappy marriage and losing public goodwill. His third book presents a divorced prince, now a widower, facing a stark choice: his children, the love of his life or the throne--or, by trying to have all three, playing a dangerous long-term game that could threaten the future of the monarchy itself.
The tragic triangular love story of Charles, Diana and Camilla has never before been told in such compelling detail. Once close to Charles, and later to Diana, Holden is uniquely placed to present both sides of their marital argument. Offering unparalleled insights into the dramatic events of the last decade, Holden traces the seeds of Charles's adult character in his childhood and youth but does not flinch from criticism in recounting how Charles reached his current dilemma as a single parent in love with a woman he may never be able to marry. Though Diana's death has created a wave of public sympathy for him--which may yet see him a popular king--can the private Charles ever find happiness without the help and support of the woman he loves?
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Blatantly biased against Charles.......2007-09-06
I've always believed that a biographer should strive to be as evenhanded about his subject as possible: Show the person "warts and all," as Oliver Cromwell once said, the bad with the good, and let the reader decide on the noted person's merit or lack of same.
Anthony Holden apparently would not agree with that belief -- at least, not when it comes to Prince Charles. Despite his protestation in the prologue that he has "attempted to tell the tale as objectively as possible," he also refers to "my informed disillusion with the prince to whom I once warmed." Holden also acknowledges that he and Charles no longer speak to each other, and that Charles's office was not cooperative with him in the preparation of "Charles At Fifty."
Wonder why? Could it be that he had already burned his bridges with the Prince of Wales with the tone of the first two biographies of him he wrote, when Charles turned 30 and 40? I haven't read those books, but anyone who has worked his way through "Charles At Fifty" might guess that the others were hardly fair, either.
In this book, Holden plain and simply trashes Charles's reputation in every way he can. In addition, he seems to detest the monarchy in general, as well as Charles in particular.
The earlier chapters of this book at least make a passing swipe at objectivity here and there. But once Princess Diana enters the picture, it is evident by Holden's writing that he positively adored her; he takes her side in every conflict the couple had during their unhappy marriage, in a manner so obvious that a blind man could see it.
Holden's malicious glee in relating every incident in which Diana got the better of Charles in their public relations battle -- or should I say every time that Holden believes she did -- is palpable. One can almost hear him smacking his lips with relish at Charles's discomfiture with his out-of-control, publicity-seeking wife.
Holden's obvious belief voiced in the book's final pages, that with Diana divorced, then dead, Charles must choose between the throne and Camilla Parker-Bowles, is not likely to be fulfilled. Charles and Camilla were married, and the House of Windsor did not fall; I predict that one day he will sit on the throne, and his son Prince William will have to wait his turn.
And Mr. Holden will have wasted all that bile for nothing.
Hanoverian History Repeats Itself in Prince Charles.......1999-10-15
Although some may find fault with the author for criticizing Charles more than Diana, frankly Charles is more 'accident prone' so it's beyond me how any even-handed author could write anything about the Charles/Diana events without sounding too pro-Diana.
Though well intentioned at heart, Charles is a product of his breeding--not just the man warped by being surrounded by sycophants but a man who has inherited the Hanover/Windsor genetic faults. First among these is the fact that Charles, like his great-grandfather George V, is not too bright. Unlike George V, he wants to be seen as bright and this is what leads him into trouble. Charles's lack of focus and desire to meddle in politics is a fault he shares with Edward VIII--along with an overly long, dissolute bachelorhood and a penchant for choosing the wrong woman.
Diana has her faults too, but to paraphrase Jane Austen's comment about George IV, "She was bad, but she would not have become as bad as she was if he had not been infinitely worse."
All the author had to do was write from record and let the actions of the man damn him. This is what he did. Charles is his own worst enemy.
Charles will be king in due time, but for the sake of the monarchy, may Elizabeth II live a long time, may Charles gain a better sense of what a British monarch should do before he becomes king and may his reign be a short one.
When will the full analysis be made?.......1999-09-16
I'm disappointed that this book does not describe in more depth Charles' role as a MODERN king-to-be. Britain was once one of the greatest empires the world had ever seen; in fact, most of its colonies have only been relinquished post-World War II. Yet, there is no sense of Charles as a truly modern man of the late 20th Century. He could be much more than a mere figurehead for England, and yet he has chosen to do no more than his mother does in terms of being a compass for England's winds of change. Charles seems to have absolutely no political, social or economic advisers surrounding him. Could this be because he is, as so many accounts have suggested over the years, a rather dim bulb? After all, the Windsors have never been known for being bright. Tellingly, Charles NEVER has any people of color as friends, or in his entourage. No one from Hong Kong or China or India or Kenya or Nigeria or Barbados or a couple dozen other former colonies of color is ever seen anywhere near the Prince, whether as a friend, confidant, or consultant. And yet there are hundreds of thousands of well-educated men and women of color from the former colonies, who've been educated at Oxbridge (Oxford and/or Cambridge) or the London School of Economics or Britain's other elite learning institutions, who are of an age with the Prince and could certainly fit into the Prince's circle. What an example he could set for an England still going through the pains of post-colonialism! But no. The King-to-be is as stuffy, conventional, and ultimately, as out of touch with the new England as his mother and father. This is the side of the Prince that warrants full examination . . . . . .
Its a sad commentary on Mr. Holden when an American has more.......1999-05-23
respect for his counrty's monarchy than he does.
I enjoyed reading parts of this biography, however, it does not put His Royal Highness in a good light. That is truely a shame since the PoW has no real peers. How can Mr. Holden judge Prince Charles so harshly, when the closest peer he has is HRH Prince Felipe Of Spain or some other heir to a throne? Besides that, he is heir to the throne by divine right, not public opinion. He should be shown respect at all times. On the other hand, I was LOL at some parts of it because it seems that the PoW does not have any common sense.
The chapter(s) on Charles' love for achitecture is downright BORING! And Poundbury? What was that? That chapter went over my head.
One more thing, does the author know how to write about BOTH sides of the story?
Don't buy this book; you've heard it all before........1999-01-06
I was extremely disappointed with "Charles at Fifty" for three reasons. First, the title is grossly misleading. It implies that most or all of the book will examine the Prince of Wales as he is today (i.e., how he's handling Diana's death; his relationship with his sons and Camilla, his parents, etc.) Instead, almost all of it is a biography of Charles, going back all 50 years. Relatively little focuses on Charles after the divorce. Second, there's very little here that we've not already seen or heard somewhere else. (Readers are forced to sit through yet another rehashing of the Waleses' maital woes.) Third, the book is terribly one-sided. Diana is portrayed as the innocent victim of a cold, heartless, selfish man who used her. Little effort is made at telling his side of the story. Far superior to Holden's book is Penny Junor's "Charles: Villian or Victim;" however, be warned that Junor is VERY pro-Charles.
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark did not embark on their epic trek across the continent alone-dozens of men and eventually one woman accompanied them. The towering triumph of the Lewis and Clark expedition is due in no small part to the skill and fortitude of such men as Sgt. Charles Floyd, the only expedition member to die; Sgt. Patrick Gass, who lived until 1870, the last surviving member of the expedition; Sgt. Nathaniel Hale Pryor, husband to an Osage woman; and York, Clark's slave, who was freed after the expedition.
The men who were instrumental to the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition come to life in this volume. Through the aid of a detailed biographical roster and a composite diary of the expedition that highlights the roles and actions of the expedition's members, Charles G. Clarke affords readers precious glimpses of those who have long stood in the shadows of Lewis and Clark. Disagreements and achievements, ailments and addictions, and colorful personalities and daily tasks are all vividly rendered in these pages. The result is an unforgettable portrait of the corps of diverse characters who undertook a remarkable journey across the western half of the continent almost two hundred years ago.
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The MEN of the Lewis & Clark expedition.......2006-02-06
This book is basically in two parts: the first is a listing of all 51 men associated with the L & C expedition and their biographies (most are very short since little or nothing could be learned about them); the second, and much longer part, is a reproduction of those sections in the Journals that mention specific men and their roles. Clarke believes that "as the men are rather lost in the maze of descriptive matter found [in the Journals], the aim of this condensation is to bring them back into sight." He has therefore culled the original journals, not only of Lewis and Clark, but also of Gass, Ordway, Floyd, and Whitehouse, seeking out the names and activities of the expedition's members. It's an interesting approach to the records of the expedition: in studying the original journals with all their mention of miles traveled, campsite locations, weather highlights, etc., it's easy to forget that it's a body of men who are performing this monumental task of exploration. Jefferson wanted the diarists to record "the facts"; this account adds the human element to those facts. A most interesting book.
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A classic of american anti-catholic bigotry.......2006-03-26
I read this book, on internet.It's avaliable free.Even free, I didn't finished it.This is a bad book.
At first, this book has so many frauds, that I can't number, the lies in a single chapter.
To exemple, this book claims that a jesuit/catholic plot was responsable for the murder of the american president Abraham Lincoln, who is an absurd.In fact, the man who murdered Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, never was a catholic.In fact, Abraham Lincoln never was a Pope's foe.
At the same time, this ridiculous book never talks about the money's scandal, who really retire the author from Roman Catholic Church.Also this book never tells nothing, about bad things like Jim Crouwn laws, linching, genocide of indians and other bad things at that time of american history.
a question for the deceased author..........2005-06-29
My question for Mr. Chiniquy would be, were he alive, "Why did you stay 50 years in the Church of Rome if it was such a pit of depravity and a morass of evil?" I MEAN, FIFTY YEARS? It's hard enough reading the book--LIVING it for 50 years would seem to be mindbogglingly soul-searing. C'mon--either he was a liar and this never happened or he was complicit in the wrongdoing. Like that old Chinease proverb says, 'To ignore evil is to become part of it.'
This is one of the most important books I have ever read!.......1999-07-26
I have read this book twice and have shared it with many other folks, we even read it to our young son and he wanted to hear it again. Chiniquy was a loving and lovable Christian and his whole life the Holy Spirit was calling him out of the Church of Rome, he finally made the big switch and joined a Protestant church and at the end of his long life he wrote a book called 40 years in the Church of Christ, also a good book to read, read it and let the Spirit work on your heart too!!! (I would like to buy a used copy of 50 Years..) Love, Marvin D from Tennessee.
Will change the reader's views on the Roman Catholic Church.......1999-05-14
I thought that the book gave a good detailed account of the dealings of the bishops of the Roman Church with the people of the church and the other officers (priests). The account of Pastor Chiniquy's dealings with Abraham Lincoln were very revealing and interesting. The Jesuit's role in the affair was also intriguing. The book was very well written and stimulating especially considering the era in which it was written.
A must read for religious history buffs.......1998-10-15
Superb review of the Catholic church and its dealings in eastern Canada and the Illinois/Michigan area in the last century, including seldom discussed details of the Abraham Lincoln assassination. The incredible story of a priest's desire to remain in the Roman Catholic church and the choices he was faced with as he came up against the church hierarchy. A real eye-opener, and hard to put down. If you start it, make sure you have time to finish it.
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