Charles Houston was the father of Brown v. Board of Ed--but tragically died in 1950, just as this historic litigation was getting underway.

It is hard to imagine any other lawyer--not to mention a Black lawyer in the 1940's who could have had a greater impact on the law as we know it. A truly remarkable human being. He not only gave birth to the NAACP's school desegregation campaign, but he also broke ground in employment discrimination, union rights, and many other developing fields of law; not to mention founding the modern day Howard Law School, which has served as the incubator for virtually all fo the civil rights litigation in the 20th Century, running a private practice, writing a regular newpaper column, and holding public office (the D.C. school board).

Ms. McRae thankfully spends only a brief time on his family history, and then gets right to the story of Houston's legal career. However, one story from Houston's formative years is instructive: When Houston served in the (segregated) Army (in WWI), he was appointed to decide the fate of a Black soldier. His investigation showed that the alleged infraction had been blown out of proportion. However, he was ordered by his superiors to find the soldier guilty, and sentence him to hard time in the brig. As a result of this experience, Houston vowed to learn the law, so that he could devote his life to ensuring that Blacks could never again be subjected to this type of injustice. He succeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

The moral? I suppose the racist superior officer lived to regret the day that he set Charles Houston on the path of justice--a [ath which ultimately lead to the destruction of legally enforced racial segregation in America--talk about a short sighted victory for racism!

Anyone who is interested in reading the story of a true (but underappreciated) American hero would do well to read this book!

This book has short bios of men who fought at the Battle of San Jacinto. It includes the average guy not just the famous ones. It even includes pictures of some. I was excited to find a picture of my great grandfather. This is a reprint and the printing quality is not as good as the original.

This book is a compendium of information related to late 19th century furniture makers. Photographs and references are essential to research of the topic. Particularly helpful is the chronology at end of book. Well-researched and photographed.

This book is well written and it satisfies one's craving for learning more about the Queen Charlottes. As a salmon fisherman, I felt the chapter titled "Old John" was worth the price of the book.

Page recreates 1960s Houston with writing that can only be called exceptional. This is a book by a real writer.

The book is about Hope, a married woman who is looking for the new ways of life being promised by the Beatles, Ken Kesey, the Firesign Theatre, and Terry Southern. Page captures the 1960s as a wonderful, exciting, and even scary dream of emerging consciousness. Frontiers were being expanded all the time--sexual, political, racial, and artistic, to name just a few. Page relates these frontiers in her story of Hope and of her husband, who see these frontiers quite differently.

Page's pen is sharp and penetrating about the times: Sex was never just sex, drugs were never just drugs, and husbands were never just husbands. What grips you as you read is who and what proves to be life-affirming, and who and what proves to be destructive. Very few books can be called truthful artistic statements of given periods, but this is one of them. What happens to Hope is what happened to not a few women, and if you didn't live through it to know it, this book will tell you. You will never see the "freedoms" of Hope and the 1960s the same way again. There was always a price to pay. A terrific, moving first novel!

The book isn't up to date (it stops somewhere in 1989) but gives a horrifying view into the obvious lack of love for the team and the building (Maple Leaf Gardens) and into the power of the former owner of the Leafs, who almost ruined one of hockey's greatest franchises. The book describes the great history of the Leafs and has beautiful pictures to illustrate it(Barilko's great flying goal). The major issue of the book is the fall of the Leafs, at the hand of their former owner, Ballard. The poor handling of promising players by incompetent managers, the personal vendettas with members of the press (Foster Hewitt and the destruction of his famous gondola) and other owners, the petty comments on everything and everybody in hockey, it's a miracle the team and the building survived Mr. Ballard and his illustrious friend, Yolanda, at all. Given the recent results of the Leafs and their departure from the Gardens, a new, revised version of this great book might be what the fans are waiting for.

Lots of twists and turns in the book. It kept me interested and who you think did it - didn't. I would definetly read another Stevie Houston Mystery. The character was very interesting.

The doctors who wrote this book make an excellent case for NOT controlling your child's diet, but instead respecting his autonomy.

I'm taking a class from one of the guys who compiled the book, and for starters let me say twenty bucks is a damn good deal for a textbook. This one is meaty too. Very interesting prefaces for each selection of writing, as well as essays about each period. A must for anyone curious about Mythic California and the writers who, well, wrote about it. Great stuff by Twain and other biggies. My favorite pieces are those giving a glimpse into Californian mining camps. The one downfall of this book is that it would have been difficult interpreting the native american stories had I not been takeing a class concurrently. The essays written by the editors about the decimation of the native population, the subsequent eviction of Mexicans were much more insightful than the native pieces themselves. There are also pieces by descendants of native peoples, which give insight.

I read this book over twenty-five years ago in my mother's collection of books that she bought as a young adult. Of all my mother's books, this one remains a vivid impression. Val gains depths the reader would not expect from the first shallow impression. Her husband's alcoholism and moral weakness are hard subjects for the early-century audience that Bower handles with a verity not often encountered. Yet my deepest etched memory is the love between Val and the hard-working honest cowboy she shuns at the first; he is impressed by her bravery alone in the cabin and her willingness to work hard to make a home in a shack when she expected a solid house, he wants to help her, he watches her struggle and transform, he realizes her husband is not worthy of her and he wants her for himself. Eventually he loves her with the kind of love she needs. This I remember to this day. The unexpected knight who replaces the prince of soft gold; the princess who realizes the difference between glitter and iron. These archetypes B.M. Bower worked with long before "archetypes" became a catch-word. She was writing good stories, better than good stories, and she deserves to remain in print based on this book alone. (Although the later Flying U book about the young man who goes to the rodeo to prove he's as much of a hero as his "wild west" father and uncles were is also as good).