This hunk of hillbilly to act like a real man

This book goes far beyond standard travel guidebooks. It provides subjective, yet accurate, ratings of condos in key island vacation spots. I have used the ratings to plan my condo vacations and have found the info to be very accurate. Hoever, it is getting dated. I anxiously await the next edition

Rossiter's little book is a must-have for any student of politcal thought and theory. Be forewarned, this is not a book for the weak-minded. Rossiter clearly defines Amercican Conservatism and explains why it supercedes today's liberal, weak-minded, damaging ideology. If you consider yourself a conservative, this is your new Bible. If you are another persuasion, plan on converting.

"A Coup Attempt in Washington?" fills in many of the gaps left by media coverage in this country. eed, it appears that the European journalists were frequently more diligent in their investigative reporting than their American counterparts.

Information that was readily available to reporters and news commentators was not revealed, including the little-known fact that what the Founding Fathers had written in the original draft of the Constitution was crimes and misdemeanors against the State. The Founding Fathers would certainly have been aghast at the public flaying of a U.S. president for private sexual acts or the lies involving them.

The point the Europeans made was that not only did the punishment not fit the crime but that, in the process, we were throwing the baby out with the bath water. That the Constitution itself was in peril. And that there had been a wholesale violation of the separation of powers in the Constitution.

The author conveys with extraordinary clarity and passion what we already know and bears repeating: that democracy is so valuable, so precious, and it so defines us, that we must be its true guardians.

Susan Maloney Clinton beings this juvenile history of "The Cuban Missile Crisis" quite dramatically, with the top-secret photographs taken by U.S. spy planes that revealed Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuban soil in October of 1962. She even has copies of the top-secret CIA memos confirming the missiles and showing their range included Washington, D.C. After a review of tensions between the United States and Soviet Union over Cuba after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Clinton covers the details of the crisis, focusing on the deliberations of EXCOM, the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, that advised President Kennedy. Young readers will get an excellent sense for how the situation evolved, teetering closer to full out nuclear war before both sides found a way of backing away from the brink. If you have read Robert Kennedy's "Thirteen Days" or seen the film, then you will be impressed with how Clinton has distilled this complex crisis into this excellent book. My father was stationed at an Air Force Base in Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so I have always been interested in this particular chapter of American history.

This book is illustrated with black & white photographs taken during the crisis; I want to note that this is one of the most effective uses of contemporary photographs in the Cornerstones of Freedom series. The book comes full circle at the end, with photographs of Soviet missiles being loaded for transport out of Cuba, and ends with Kennedy signing the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. After the crisis Kennedy and Khrushchev met to discuss the treaty and agreed to install a hot line between the two capitals. Clinton ends with Khrushchev's praise for Kennedy following the President's assassination in 1963. Teachers should point out to their students that Khrushchev was ousted from his leadership position within a few years, and both sides in the Cold War had lost the leaders who avoided nuclear war at a pivotal moment in history. You have to wonder if detente could have started years earlier if they had both remained on the world's stage.

I am a great admirer of the Cornerstones of Freedom series, which looks at not only events in American History but people, places, objects and periods. Teachers and students alike can use these volumes to great advantage to get beyond the limited consideration of such things in standard history textbooks.

I actually had Jeff Ferrell as a professor at Northern Arizona University, which is the main reason why I read the book. He is extremely knowledgeable about the subject, and reading it was a very eye-opening experience. I would definately recommend this to anyone! Of course, you'll never be able to watch the news or read TV again without thinking of this book... :)

Anyone who has studied the history of slavery in the US must recognize that the issue of sex and race is a critical sub-text. Clinton and Glillespie's collection of essays provides a variety of well-thought-out perspectives on the issue. Scholars will find the work thought-provoking and a valuable addition to readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War is a collection of essays pertaining to the crisis in gender relations that accompanied the Civil War in America. As a collection, the essays present a narrative that chronicles the various impacts on gender that affected men and women, the North and the South, as well as slaves and non-slaves. What emerges is a cohesive body of text that is informative, illuminating, and instructive. The themes most explored in this volume are those of empowerment through abolitionism. In The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender Relations by Leann Whites, the two groups most perceptive of the gender crisis were Northern feminists and black abolitionists. During the Civil War, the public status of motherhood increased. This leads to another theme that will later be explored in following essays, that of the State as family. In this first essay, Leann Whites argues that the Civil War created circumstances for gender equality, both diminishing white Southern male masculinity and increasing black manhood. Ideas of manhood during the Civil War are further investigated in Part II and in Reid Mitchell's Soldiering, Manhood, and Coming of Age: A Northern Volunteer. The journey from civilian to soldier was mirrored in the transition from boyhood to manhood, and the constitution of manhood evolved as a delicate balance of masculinity and manly restraint. During the Civil War, the body politic as well as the army assumed familial ties to facilitate solidarity. Despite the changes in notions of manhood, for the black male population the "empowerment" was not always beneficial. Jim Cullen's Gender and African-American Men details how conceptions of black manhood changed during the Civil War, with the mastery over one's own body leading to mastery in warfare. Despite being placed on some of the most dangerous fronts, black soldiers endured low pay and high disease in exchange for their mastery over their bodies. In Part III of Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, the themes move from issues of manhood to those relating to women. In Arranging a Doll's House: Refined Women as Union Nurses author Kristie Ross writes about female volunteers on hospital transports, and she draws from the familial theme by presenting the hospital transport as the rearrangement of a doll's house to appear domestic. Ross also reveals a sense of agency for women volunteers, claiming that many felt "...an eagerness to seize an occasion to escape the routine pattern of their lives and a familiarity with genteel standards of household organization." (101) Lyde Cullen Sizer's Acting Her Part: Narratives of Union Women Spies also deals with the issue of female agency during the Civil War, but Sizer further examines the repercussions women felt depending on whether they were white or black. For white women spies, their efforts were more dramatic than substantial, whereas for black abolitionists like Harriet Tubman the cause and consequences of being a spy were much more realistic. Sizer's essay is also an attempt to place female spy narratives in a literary context from which they have been excluded. Of all the essays in Divided Houses, none is more colorful and titillating than Michael Fellman's Women and Guerrilla Warfare. Through his dramatic prose, Fellman explores how peacetime morality was subverted through guerrilla warfare, with male guerrilla fighters attacking traditional values while physically attacking women. Fellman, doubtless, is presenting a form of psychological history by claiming "there was also an additional element here of bad boys acting out against a nagging, smothering mother." (151) For many Kansas guerrilla regiments during the Civil War, the "freeing" of slaves was an act of defiance rather than a moralistic pursuit. Guerrilla warfare finally reinforced the need for love, security, and family. The fourth part of Divided Houses closely examines dynamics on the Southern homefront. Peter Bardaglio's The Children of Jubilee: African-American Childhood in Wartime explains how prior to the Civil War, slave children were age-segregated but not gender-segregated. With freedom as a concept first emerging for many slaves during the Civil War, play activities among children became more gendered. Martha Hodes's Wartime Dialogues on Illicit Sex: White Women and Black Men further draws on the theme of black male power as a political issue emerging during the Civil War, which consequently led to sexuality itself becoming a political issue. With most yeoman farmers at war, the homefront became a location for "illicit" sex as well as the performative stage for class discord. The Southern states were not the only ones to feel the impact on gender relations that the Civil War created: Part V examines gender issues on the Northern homefront with Patricia R. Hill's Writing Out the War: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Averted Gaze. In Part VI, essays examine how the politics of Reconstruction became gendered, with Northern women beginning to campaign for the vote and new labor opportunities for African-American men and women. In spite of these advances, however, the ruling classes in the South still attempted to exert authority and black women were still subjected to southern white male violence, as evidenced in Catherine Clinton's concluding essay, Reconstructing Freedwomen. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War is a combination of various historiographical methodologies; cultural, social, psychological, intellectual and political, which simultaneously present a coherent and evocative study of wartime's affect on gender relations. In addition to mapping themes in gender relations during war, narratives of women's undertaking of professional and managerial duties while men were fighting in the Civil War provides a historical anchoring of the themes of female labor that were to arise again during the First, and especially Second, World War.

Jason Trent is seventeen and travels back in time from 2097 to 1863 Virginia to find his twin sister Jaynie was accidentally transported there in her father's time machine. This is a time of Civil War and runaway slaves. Jason teams up with former slave Daniel Williams who witnessed Jaynie's abduction by traveling minstrels. Together the two boys track the abductors and during a three-week odyssey visit wartime Washington, are captured as spies, encounter the Underground Railroad, and stop a conspiracy that could have otherwise changed the course of history. Vincent Sescoe is a master storyteller whose young readers will enjoy this novel of high adventure while they also learn fascinating, true life details of the Civil War. Highly recommended for school and community library collections, the text of Double Time is occasionally enhanced with black and white illustrations by Clinton Helms.

Recommended to me by Major Bob Beach, Director of the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy in Virginia. Great book if you're interested in this field, or are already in it and want to hone your skills. At only 17, I feel this book will be very helpful to me in a future I hope consists of a career as an Alaska State Trooper. It may be a little heavy, but dig in and hang on for the long haul. GOOD LUCK!