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Start here for world war one history.......2007-08-20
I've picked up quite a few books on the first and second world war, and this is definitely one of the must reads. It is a great read (no worries this is history written at its finest). The book's focus makes it a great read to get into this period. To get some more context I would also recommand Dreadnought by Robert K Massie. It focusses on the entire complex history of the coming of the great war. But in any case, start with the guns of August!!
A must read for the student of political-military history.......2007-03-21
Few of us have any real understanding of the events and personalities which pushed 1914 Europe into a war that should have been over in less than 6 weeks with a resultant German victory, but would instead grind on for years. In this her 3rd novel, Tuchman has done a monumental job of research and interpretation of the facts for the novice reader of military-political histories. She provides us a clear understanding of how the Kaiser and the Imperial German General Staff, contrived to build a case for war, developed a brilliant strategy to execute and win that war on two fronts [against the French and the Russians] and then to ultimately dominate the European continent. She introduces us to reluctant heroes like King Albert of Belgium and to weaker characters like Czar Nicholas of Russia. We are exposed to the brilliant German strategist Count Alfred Von Schlieffen who was the visionary for the incredibly bold and complex blueprint of military actions during the first 35-40 days of the Great War. Then she exposes flawed generals such as the indecisive Joffre of France and then the incompetent warriors like General Sir John French, of the British Expeditionary Forces. All in all... 'The Guns of August' [like Tuchman's 'Stillwell and the American Experience in China'] is a great read and a must have for the library of serious students of military-political history. One serious flaw however, is that this particular edition as produced by Tess Press, is overflowing with errors that even a novice proof-reader would have caught. They are so numerous as to be distracting and I would strongly recommend buying this great book only as published by a different printing house.
Very detailed........2007-01-10
This book is probably the best I have read this year. The author's presentation of the story behind the first world war is absolutely fantastic. I could not put it down and finished it in less than three days.
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The most arresting photographic images in our history-all the way up to the World Trade Center tragedy and the 2002 war in Afghanistan-come to life in this complete compilation of Pulitzer Prize-winning news and feature photos, along with the stories behind them.
More than 235 prize-winning photographs offer a year-by-year, dramatically visual chronicle of our times. Each beautifully reproduced image is accompanied by key information on how the shot was taken and the stunning story behind it, as told to author Hal Buell by the photographers. An accompanying timeline, placing each photo in its historical context, features yet another 265 photographs.
This unique and moving volume is completely up to date, including the 2000-2001 winners. Recent photos include images of students fleeing Columbine High School and the striking shot of federal agents taking Elian Gonzales from the arms of his relatives at gunpoint.
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Intense, Insightful, and True.......2006-01-11
Thankfully, in its range of events, nations, and issues covered, the pictures inside go way beyond the front page. Many pictures convey a reality that people like to forget. How about a white man 'stabbing' a person of color with a flag pole -the US flag proudly flying? How about an undernourished Sudanese toddler collapsed on the desert sand with a vulture waiting for its chance in the background? The pictures depict many unanswered questions in a very intense and beautiful way. A very powerful book.
Heart-rendering depictions by devoted photojournalists.......2002-11-16
This book contains the best Pulitzer awarded pictures from its inception since 1942. Most of the photos are in B&W and you begin to realise how much more powerful and appropriate it is to be shot in this medium, as it strips away the epidermi of the scene and reveals the emotional flesh of the moment. Every photo is accompanied with a commentary about how it was made and the situation that exposed the determination, patience and grit of the photographer. And for each year that is chronicled, four thumbnail pics of other events in that year is depicted, to give a sense of the timeline of the situation.
This book makes you want to be a photojournalist.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper stories that shook the nation-collected for the first time since their original publication in 1948.
Until the mid-twentieth century, organized crime ruled New York's waterfront. With the threat of communism in the air, the inhumane treatment of longshoremen implicitly condoned by the unions, and the suspicious disappearance of anyone who spoke out against the system, it seemed things would never change. Then Malcolm Johnson's groundbreaking series "Crime on the Water Front" appeared in The New York Sun, revealing a violent underworld that influenced all levels of New York politics, society, and industry. Johnson's extensive investigation finally forced the public and the government to take action, leading to changes in labor laws that influenced the entire nation. Now, collected for the first time in book form, these Pulitzer Prize-winning articles tell a riveting story of mobsters, murder, faith, and the ultimate victory of fair play and American values. Included is a foreword by Malcolm Johnson's son, Haynes Johnson, also a Pulitzer Prize winner, who discusses the tremendous impact the series had upon his family, and an introduction and additional reporting by Budd Schulberg, author of the Academy Award-winning screenplay On the Waterfront.
Introduction and additional articles by Budd Schulberg.
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The Classic 'On The Waterfront' Account........2005-08-31
This book contains the twenty-six front page articles of Malcolm Johnson printed in 'The New York Sun' in 1947 and '48. Budd Schulberg wrote the introduction and added some articles of his own. He had previously written THE DISENCHANTED.
Mainly, though, it is almost totally Malcolm Johnson, a reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for these articles which shook the United States as he exposed organized crime on the New York waterfront. This was the basis of the movie 'On The Watrefront' starring Marlon Brando. This exposure led to the Tennessee Senator Kefauver hearings and changed labor laws which influenced America. D. A. Thomas Dewey led the charge and Budd Schulberg followed through by producing the award-winning movie directed by Elia Kazan. It won five Oscars including best picture, best director and best actor. It is one of the Top Ten films of the century.
The articles and resulting movie reveals to the world how organized crime had infiltrated the New York Harbor, the world's busiest port. The '40s photo looking down on New York City shows hundreds of piers at the height of the waterfront's extent and power. The interconnnected piers were the richest in the world.
This book shows America and New York at the pivotal time when shipping ruled the world. Back then, "money was more important than life itself." It still is sometimes and some places. Corruption and violence on the waterfront were commonplace, as they were on the street of New York ('The West Side Story'). Pictures are interspersed throughout the book; one of them is of the Hudson River, showing the West Side piers at their peak in the '30s.
Haynes Johnson also won a Pulitzer Prize for his journalism. He wrote THE BEST OF TIMES: AMERICA IN THE CLINTON YEARS, which I already reviewed.
Handsomely Reproduced Time Capsule.......2005-08-12
Reading this book is like stepping into another era, and the shocks are everywhere. First of all, the material is from an olf time New York daily newspaper, the SUN, a paper long vanished into the annals of journalism. Thank goodness someone kept some old copies of this scandal-making series of articles by SUN reporter Malcolm Johnson, many of which took up the first page of the old SUN, and filled the paper with an expose on union activities along the piers and docks of old New York. Johnson's son, nonfiction specialist Haynes Johnson, contributes context for his father's Pulitzer-Prize winning scoop.
Budd Schulberg, who read these articles and worked with Elia Kazan on the screenplay of the film, pays tribute to Malcolm Johnson like one craftsman to another. But he's no dummy, Schulberg. The first thing you realize when reading these articles is what a great job Schulberg did bringing life to what is essentially a pretty dry tale of graft, without any real heroes or plot. In presenting this old journalism, Schulberg insures that we appreciate his artistry. There aren't any Terry Malloys in the pages of the SUN, and there are definitely no Eva Marie Saints looking on wistfully.
What you'll take away from what was once the expose of the decade is now merely a case of mutatis mutandis. I'm sure things along the docks have not changed an iota. Prices have, though! Johnson presented as a shocker the annual salary of the corrupt union head--$20,000! That wouldn't get you very far in today's New York. You might be able to buy a life buoy but I doubt it. And yet to his readers, that salary must have repesented the equivalent of a million bucks today, and been instantly a suspicious red flag as though to scream out in 24 pt type, RYAN'S A CROOK.
And what a prescient picture of the Mafia! It was an organization only dimly visible through the underground fog, yet one that extended its tentacles into every arena of modern urban life. Johnson must have been one of the first reporters to dig into it with any depth or understanding. It's a surprise he lived! I would have thought after three or four days of this serial, the boys would have put his shoes into concrete and sunk him under the pier. Instead he lived for another 30 years, with the Pulitzer on his mantel and a grin across his face.
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From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Movie Critic Stephen Hunter Comes A Brilliant, Freewheeling, And Witty Look At The Movies.
Evanston, Illinois, was an idyllic 1950s paradise with stately homes, a beautiful lake, a world-class university, two premier movie houses, and one very seedy movie theater -- the Valencia.
This was the site of Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter's misspent youth. Instead of going to school, picking up girls, or tossing a football, Hunter could be found sitting in the fifteenth row, right-hand aisle seat of the Valencia, sating himself on one B-list movie after another.
The Valencia had a sticky floor, smelly bathrooms, ancient popcorn, and a screen set in a hideously tacky papier-mache castle wall. It was also the only place in town to see westerns, sci-fi pictures, cops 'n' robbers flicks, slapstick comedy, and Godzilla.
In Now Playing at the Valencia, the author of such bestselling novels as Havana and Pale Horse Coming has compiled his favorite movie reviews written between 1997 and 2003, bringing to the discussion the passionate feelings for cinema he discovered in the '50s, a time when genres were forming, mesmerizing stars played unforgettable characters, and enduring classics were made. While filmmaking has changed tremendously since Hunter first frequented the Valencia, the view from the fifteenth row, and the thrill of down and dirty entertainment, has remained the same.
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In Now Playing at the Valencia, the author of such bestselling novels as Havana and Pale Horse Coming has compiled his favorite movie reviews written between 1997 and 2003, bringing to the discussion the passionate feelings for cinema he discovered in the '50s, a time when genres were forming, mesmerizing stars played unforgettable characters, and enduring classics were made. While filmmaking has changed tremendously since Hunter first frequented the Valencia, the view from the fifteenth row, and the thrill of down and dirty entertainment, has remained the same.
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A Differing Of Opinion About Movies Then & Now........2006-02-13
Not realizing that this paperback about movies was merely a collection of reprints of this author's previously published essays, I was a bit let down. After all, the cover photo promised what it didn't deliver, a modern "movie" genre interpretation. Instead, the reader gets criticism from 1997-2003 of what he saw in Washington, D.C. not at the Valencia at all.
Two years ago, I reviewed HOT SPRINGS and HAVANA, novels about gangsters and vice written by this movie critic -- no doubt straight out of the old dated movies like 'Thunder Road.' He admits that he spent his young years in the Valencia as "education" in Illinois where he traversed the short distance between two (make that three: he forgot the Coronet) movie houses to escape growing up normally. Why he refused to see 'Marjorie Morningstar' was not fully explained, why he even made a point of saying he still would not see this 1958 Natalie Wood/Gene Kelly film is mute. Who cares? I saw it at the best of the three theaters we had downtown, and it turned out to be prophetic for me. Since he didn't see it, he has no idea what I mean. The Valencia looks a lot like our Bijou, which has been through many renovations and undergoing another.
The Riveria is long gone, but I spent many hours in that make-believe cinemascope world as a teenager. Before I discovered the musicals of the Fifties, my fate was the B-westerns at the three seedy places only a block or two from the better places every Saturday. The good thing about movies (not possible today) was timing -- you could buy your ticket and enter halfway through the movie, stay until it got back to where you came in, or sit through until the ending again. No usher would tell you to leave. Times have changed. Now you must leave when the movie is over, while the credits are running if possible.
I saw 'No Escape' starring Ray Liotta on video. In the Fifties, I saw Rory Calhoun and George Nader. I liked 'A Knight's Tale' but wasn't aware that Russell Crowe played Chaucer. He was good in 'A Beautiful Life' but, like Mr. Hunter who had some kind of personal aversion to 'Marjorie Morningstar,' I refused to see him in 'Master & Commander' (personal reasons) -- and quit going to Tom Cruise movies a long time ago, and again like Mr. Hunter, don't plan to ever see him on screen no matter what he plays. All I can figure out for Hunter's prejudice about 'Marjorie Morningstar' must pertain to the story and not the actors.
I've seen a lot of movies these past three years but there's just nothing much to look forward to nowadays. I am wondering if he saw 'A New World' or 'Aristocrats'? But I really don't want to know what he thought about them. To me, they wasted my time and money. In 1953, at the Valencia, "things never happen in reality with the clarity that they do in recollection. Symbolism is rarely apparent when it's happening."
We had a t.v. set to watch the westerns in the early Fifties. Movies were special, especially if the young usher gave a young girl free tickets for upcoming features. The movies used to be fun. Not today, however! Stephen Hunter has also written VIOLENT SCREEN: a CRITIC'S 13 YEARS ON THE FRONT LINES OF MOVIE MAYHEM, his other collection of previously published columns from the 'Washington Post.'
Compulsively readable.......2006-02-08
Movies are a populist art form, and Stephen Hunter is a people's movie reviewer, giving deft and entertaining analysis for about 100 "popcorn" movies within the 330 pages of this book. No Pauline Kael, he evinces more relish than reverence for film. He seems to have as much fun writing about bad movies as about good ones, and he (at least in this volume) barely touches on foreign films, usually the bread and butter of snobbish critics.
Hunter is a published novelist, and he knows how to write a snappy essay. You won't be bored here. He gets to the meat of the matter very quickly, he's very clear in his analysis, and he has no trouble grasping the themes of movies as they speak to the society at large. Hunter has a lot of accumulated knowledge to draw on, and these reviews are very juicy tidbits as a result.
My favorite quote? "Real movies have gone to live on AMC and TCM."
Yes, Hunter is a grizzled baby boomer, and he is properly skeptical of eye-fooling movies built on CGI effects. He mixes in a few reviews of re-released classics ( "High Noon", "Touch of Evil", "Good, Bad, and the Ugly", "Gone With the Wind", "Third Man").
Anybody who aspires to writing reviews of movies on Amazon should read this book, to understand how a really pleasurable essay is put together. It will also whet your appetite and your appreciation for truly edifying moviegoing.
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Welfare moms are "the most hated women in America," says Cheri Honkala, a dynamic activist from Philadelphia who is profiled in the engrossing Myth of the Welfare Queen. As the American mood toward welfare turned mean in the mid-1990s and politicians worked to radically change who got benefits and for how long, Honkala used her considerable talents in guerrilla theater to fight bureaucrats on behalf of a rising tide of dispossessed women and children. She keeps the TV news spotlight on the homeless with a host of inspired acts: a long-term tent city for displaced families, the takeover of a church, a grungy encampment next to the Liberty Bell. Nonetheless, folks dispute how helpful such confrontations are. Odessa Williams, a resourceful, resilient woman who supports four grandchildren and then doubles that number when new troubles strike, is the other sympathetic subject in this tough, humanizing portrait of women on welfare by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor David Zucchino.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Zucchino spent a year sharing the lives of Odessa Williams and Cheri Honkala -- two "welfare mothers" in Philadelphia -- to gain an intimate look at their day-to-day existence. Odessa, supporting an extended family, exhibits almost superhuman strength and resolve. Cheri, a single mother, is a tireless advocate for the homeless. Zucchino beautifully portrays them as figures of profound courage and quiet perseverance, systematically shattering all misconceptions and stereotypes about these women and so many others like them.
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The Myth of the Welfare Queen enthralls reader.......2003-05-06
The beauty of this book is the simplicity with which it is written. There are not technical terms to maneuver around. It takes a very candid look at a world many of us will never experience. It shows the very human characteristics of single mothers on welfare. The book never gets boring because it reads like a story. This is a non-fiction piece with all the compelling attributes of a fictional novel. This is not just a light rainy-day read either. It forces you to look into the lives of these women. Zucchino describes Odessa and Cheri's horrible necessicities like dumpster diving and prostitution so flippantly, it makes you want to scream, "But these women shouldn't be living like this!"
EXCELLENT & ENGROSSING.......2003-01-16
This book is exceptionally well-written and compelling,not at all the dry type of prose normally found in other books of this type or on this subject. This book certainly opened my eyes and seriouslly challenged (and destroyed) many of my long-held perceptions of welfare recipients, especially single women struggling to support families. Odessa Williams, one of the central figures in the book, is a true gem - unselfish, loyal, resourceful, brave and inspiring. This book,like Odessa,is a "winner". Highly recommended.
Unbiased Journalistic View That WIll Make You Think.......2002-05-20
This is not the book to read if you are trying to make up your mind about welfare issues or reinforce the ideas that you already have. It is an amazingly unjudgemental look at the lives of those on welfare in the inner city that will at times make you raving mad, whether at the people who refuse to work with the system for the sake of their children or at a system that fails those who give everything they have to take care of children they only want the best for, and sometimes have no direct responsibility for (grandchildren, children they have taken in). It puts real situations and struggles in the place of the abstract idea of public assistance. Within the pages you will meet kindhearted, incredibly nonbitter people, like Odessa, who you will admire and, at the same time, long to reach out to. Those who you would pity for their horrible circumstances if only you could not tell from reading about their lives that they are far too good of people to need or want pity. You will also meet people who you cannot feel sympathy for. People you will want to just slap for their irresponsibility and for not putting their children's needs before their own whims. This book shows just how complex the issue of welfare is, and that a set of laws or policies is not going help some people who are just stuck between a rock and a hard place. It will show you that there is no typical welfare recipients, even among those living in one neighborhood. Though some of the people are unbelievably good , and some horrible individuals, it will show the many greys in between. It is a portrait of those suffering for the nation's view of the "Welfare Queen." Those with huge hearts and horrible circumstances infinity entitled to whatever they need to do the job that we would not want to (raising troubled grandchildren amd great-grandchildren with meager means like Odessa, or being the self-appointed guardian of the homeless like Cheri). It is also a portrait of those who stubbornly refuse to help themselves, and fully live up to the idea of the irresponsible, neglectful mother who rather hang out with different men and continue to get pregnant than think of her own children. This is not a book that will make up your mind, but it is one that will give you an understanding of why this is such a hard issue to even begin to think of any sort of solution for.
Strength of the welfare queen.......2002-03-01
This book brings about a huge reality check. You realize how much the typical "welfare queen" makes it all work. You realize all they have to deal with on a daily basis when most of us do not give a second thought to letting our kids go to the park. I thought this and Jonathon Kozol's Amazing Grace were so similar. They paint a clear picture of what it is like to live in a poor city, and having to deal with the everyday trials. Odessa is a strong woman and that shines through the book, she is a caring woman who is taking care of her grandchildren and her great grandchildren. Even though she raised her children, she continues to raise her grandchildren. She has amazing strength and an amazing way to make life for her children a little easier. I loved this book, and our class had the ablity to go and meet Odessa, she is a wonderful and admirable woman. This book will grab your attention and keep it. Once you read this book then go on to Jonathon Kozol's Amazing Grace. They will give you a new sense of reality. It will make you realize that no matter what happens to you, there is someone out there that has it worse than you in some way.
Unsentimental yet powerful narrative.......1999-08-17
David Zucchino has written an unsentimental yet powerful narrative describing life in the trenches of the welfare system. His recountal reminds us that we cannot disregard the urgency of poverty,as it affects all of us, regardless of our economic situation or our opinion of welfare recepients. Zucchino's attempt to deconstruct the myth of the welfare queen exposes many unsavory details about life below the poverty line ; trash-picking, sex for money, children left in charge of other children. This book requires that the reader step into the shoes of a desperately poor person, leaving behind moral judgments and uninformed opinions. The reader must also remember that Zucchino's intent is not to essentialize the lives of welfare recepients by focusing his record on a few women, but to highlight the insanity of the welfare system and its effects on disenfranchised individuals; the interminable red tape, the constant harrasment by bureaucrats, and the poor distribution of funds and materials. After reading this book, we should reexamine the ways in which we show our moral obligation to those who need help.
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Kay Fanning's Alaska Story is an inspirational memoir of how Kay built the Anchorage Daily News into a bastion of progressive leadership. She did it with grace and integrity, always placing public interests above special interests. In 1965, Kay loaded her three children into a station wagon and headed north for a fresh start in Alaska. She took a job at the Anchorage Daily News, eventually purchasing the struggling newspaper with her new husband, Larry Fanning. Just as they were gaining steam, however, Larry died of a heart attack. Kay became editor and publisher, turning the Daily News into Alaska's largest newspaper. She and her newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for coverage of corruption in Alaska's powerful Teamsters Union. In 1983, Kay headed East to become editor of the Christian Science Monitor. She began working on this memoir, but she died before it was finished. Katherine Field Stephen, her daughter, finished the book by inviting eight of Kay Fanning's friends and associates to contribute stories of how Kay helped define Alaska's issues and shape its future.
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The tale of a tremendous personal victory.......2007-07-20
This is a colorful personal story of journalistic struggle and success given, of necessity, in an idiosyncratic form. Author Fanning died in 2000 before completing the story of her years in Anchorage, Alaska, with the Anchorage Daily News, taking her personal narrative no farther than 1974 and the death of her second husband and partner in journalism, Larry Fanning.
The rest of the Anchorage story and brief insights into her later period from 1983 as editor of The Christian Science Monitor are supplied in brief commentaries by friends and journalism colleagues. The larger picture only emerges in shards of memory, like shifting pieces of a kaleidoscope.
Fanning came from wealth and married wealth---Chicago tycoon, businessman and publisher Marshall Field. After their divorce, she took their three children and moved to Alaska, later marrying newsman Larry Fanning. She learned the newspaper business as she and her colleagues relate here. It was a metamorphosis from socialite verging on alcoholism to dedicated Christian Scientist and successful journalist. Her reliance on her Christian Science faith is foundational to the story.
During her Monitor years, she was made the first woman president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. This book clearly shows the personality and dynamism of an editor who built a dedicated coterie of Monitor colleagues because of her personal acumen. Her legacy, however, has been schismatic. When she left, during the period when Monitor TV was being developed, some able journalists left with her. Newsroom memories and public opinion have fostered a continuing sense of division between the paper as a journalistic endeavor and its publisher, The First Church of Christ, Scientist. Another side to that issue is found in Sue Bridge's presentation of the Monitor TV years, "Monitoring the News."
The Monitor story isn't told here.
Kay Fanning's Alaska Story.......2007-05-09
This is a story of how courage, faith and a motive to see justice and equality prevail is played out in Alaska. Kay came from an elite background and yet was very practical and down to earth in her dealings with everyone she met. She lived her religion and it saw her through trials that would challenge even the strongest individual. It is a good story of how ethics and morals win out when the motive is pure and the faith stong enough. Anyone should be enchanted by this story. It is too bad Kay did not get to finish it herself, but the last half written by those who knew her well demonstrates what a very special lady she was and how we can all learn from her strenth and devotion. I recommend it to anyone but especially those interested in the newspaper industry or those who want a great story about a women beating the odds when nobody thought she could do it.
Boring.......2007-05-07
Expected this to be much more interesting. If you want to know about the newspaper business this is the book for you, otherwise it's not of any interest other than from a business point of view.
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Our world.......2003-10-06
First of all, I'd like to praise Roy Gutman's for being an example of what an honest man should be. This is a book about
serbs and their terrifying crimes they've done in Bosnia, before they did the very same to Kosovo, and after they've done the very same in Croatia, and just a bit before that in Slovenia.As a Kosovar, and a serb victim too, the more I learn about
what might have spurred the serbs expose their long hidden cruel
fantasies towards Croatians,Bosnians,and Albanians too - the more I get confused. I mean I keep asking myself "Hey, did it really have to come to Bosnia...no less my country Kosovo, after
all we have seen what happened to Croatia. Well, it is more than
obvious that they were backed up and it would be most unfair even though everything is fair after all we have been through from their cruel unimaginable crimes - to label a western country
if not all of them - for letting this happen. I mean it is just as if I am a millionaire and in my doorsteps I see a dead-starved
beggar in my doorstep and not help him. I mean, come on, not that
I would actually give him some food but I'll make him a honoured member of my family...anyways...it's all blood (not water) under the bridge of west's silence. GO WEST!!! Serbs, regarding Bosnia
and Croatia will be forever grateful for that silence of yours. I mean how can they not??? But I am so sorry to say that because
you know your profession, I mean I am clueless what is it like to be a politician or a diplomat...but yeah anyways...what really
provoked tears was the writer's love for humanity and for what is right. He created an honest book even though he lived and considered Serbia as his homeland and he wasn't at all as the
corrupted gen.Lewis McKenzie who was paid to be a darkness to the (bosnian) serbs crimes by serbs themselves.I am so happy at the thought that McKenzie can not possibly enjoy the money he got from the serbs because that's the way it works, but the thing I am not sure of is "how can he sleep at night?", is he buying medicines to cure his then corrupted mind and clear his
consciousness of what he has done to thousands of children ( I am not mentioning the old people and other hundreds of thousands
victims). Goodness me, how safe are we when UN Generals can get in the payroll of the most dreadful criminals. If I was the law,
now when the waters have been cleared, general McKenzie, and some others who could have prevented genocides on innocent people (am not mentioning old people and hundreds of thousands civilians) I would all make them next door neighbours to where Milosevic is.At least, it wouldn't be that bad for them at all, because they may have missed him a lot - so it would have been a win-win situation. The justice would have been served and as I said they would have enjoyed being with each other. I wonder,did anyone ever thought about this that a non-serbian might be responsible for its irresponsibalities too??? I don't know, it makes to much sense to me that yes - someone else is responsible
too because it was obvious what the serbs are after.
Anyways, reading this book is just like reading all the books in Eastern European wars all caused by serbs. This book gives the very reason why did it all happen because it was written by a man who knew their language,their history,traditions, their everything and above all he was a witness to the genocide they committed. So,yeah, if you really want to know what spurred the serbs expose their true selves READ THIS BOOK and you'll see how and why did it all happen.
A must for anyone interested in Current Affairs........1999-02-11
This book provides excellent examples and background information about the tragedy that has occurred in Bosnia and is continuing in places such as Kosovo. It also pinpoints the cause of this genocide - The Yugoslav government and the Serbs. It is absolutely necessary for anyone interested in current affairs and the conflict in Bosnia.
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This is a dynamic collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles, cartoons, and photographs that relate to sports journalism. Fischer introduces sports journalism in the history of the Pulitzer Prize. He then examines fact-oriented sports reporting such as spot news, sports reporting, and sports photography. Next, he examines background-oriented reporting such as profiles of sports celebrities and investigative reporting of sports-related cases. Fischer concludes with a look at opinion-oriented genres such as editorial page sports comments and criticism of television sportscasting.
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Amazingly funny anecdotes of Dr. Gregg Jarrell's life.......1997-05-03
This book provides an insightful look into one aspect of the life of the "Peter Pan of Chicago", Dr. Gregg Jarrell of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business. Quotes such as "Its easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission" should be a part of any financier's repertiore
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What did we ever do before wars?.......2004-06-26
William Tuohy uses this, his first book, to introduce us to the atrocities of war in various areas of the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in 1968. Throughout his journalist career, he was involved with presidents of USA, movie stars, and politicians plus the terrorists in the Mid East.
He was held hostage in Jordon, Iran, and tells of the upheaval in Iran in December, 1978. Now there is even worse upheaval there and he was lucky the militants then did not behead their prisoners and act like savages, as they do in 2004.
It is now seventeen years since he had this book published, but the world is still in turmoil in the same places. You'd think the 'fighters' would get tired of the same old thing and 'grow up a bit.' He found himself in 'no-man's-land in Syria during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He had even more adventures than the famed journalist, Thomas, who was the first American allowed into Tibet and broadcast from there -- only to have a fall from a horse and break his leg on the way out of that forbidden territory. I know of a recent journey there by a friend of Patch Adams. My, how times have changed.
In Belfast, got caught between the police and rioters, reminding me of Sam Houston, a former Governor of the great state of Tennessee, who was caught in the warfare with Santa Anna in Texas when his skittish horse would not get out of the firing range -- subsequently he was shot in the ankle.
Tuochy tells of Viet Nam and the Green Berets, reminding us of the brave men who tried valiantly to represent the U.S. in Viet Nam and many died mercilessly and needlessly. We should never have been there in the first place. Just as we have stayed in Iran far past the time needed, and our Americans are being slaughtered for no reason.
Since this book, he has written THE BRAVEST MAN, LOVE JOURNEY INTO AMERICA, SPRING COMES CALLING showing his expertise in the art of newspapers and national magazines. He enjoyed television to a point and was fascinated by the 'stars' and directors, and the dolce vita scene (whatever that is). According to the book jacket, "Tuochy presents a fascinating portrait of a troubled world and the dangerous company who inhabit it." That, he did!
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- The Life of Kingsley Amis
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
- The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle (The Albert Schweitzer Library)
- The Old Man and The Sea
- The Old Man and The Sea
- The Old Man and The Sea
- The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't
- The Quilter's Homecoming: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)
- The Reluctant Shaman: A Woman's First Encounters with the Unseen Spirits of the Earth
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