Good historical overview of Cleveland supplemented by photographs. Cut and dried, scholarly approach. Recommended as a starting point for historical research into what shaped the city.

This book is an attractive, comprehensive collection of Cleveland landmarks. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking for a book that shows off Cleveland.

The first time I read this book, I thought he was a fruitcake. I thought "what *are* all these poems about, these are messed up!" but after reading them several times, they really fascinated me. Franz Wright is a gifted poet, and is very descriptive in his poetry. The book has really grown on me, it intrigues me each time I read poems from it.

The principle conclusion of this text is that economic wealth is a function of natural resource availability. Japan is noted as an exception, but the first printing pre-dated the collapse of the Soviet Union and consequently, the Soviet exception goes unmentioned. It matters little, as their conclusions may be debunked by countless other "exceptions."

Nevertheless, the book makes a number of interesting observations and provides data to support them. It anticipates the perspective now termed "industrial ecology" or "industrial "metabolism," but places an emphasis on energy (first-law energy) rather than materials, which the aforementioned perspectives have become preoccupied with. Two new and useful terms are defined: energy subsidy and Energetic Return on Investment (ERI) that draw attention to the authors' viewpoint. The first is a measure of how much energy an organism or economy (the analogue of an ecosystem) can capture from outside its borders. The second computes the energy returned to an organism as a result of some expenditure, e.g., migration to better food sources.

Countless graphs, tables and data provide empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that economic growth is attributable to the substitution of fossil fuels for the labor of humans and animals. This element is absent from neoclassical economic thought, which would describe economic growth as principally a function of labor and capital, rather than thermodynamic efficiencies or scale.

Although the authors recognize the importance of second law analysis, they make few attempts to take advantage of it. Energy is therefore equated without regard to quality, except for a few instances or examples.

References are copious. Among the contemporary authors cited are David Pimentel, the agricultural energy analyst at Cornell, Herman Daly and Robert Costanza, ecological economists from the Univ. of Maryland.

This book is the best resource on land navigation i've seen. I use it regularly in teaching land navigation in conjunction with search and rescue to area fire departments. The author makes the hard-to-explain easy to understand for beginners and experts alike.

Man, they don't write them like this anymore! Nowadays, historians want to prevaricate you to death with all the fine points they can dredge up. Here's an author who sticks to his single point throughout, that President Cleveland's innate honesty was not enough to serve America and that he should have tried to alter his stances at times to suit America's needs. As we say nowadays, Cleveland needed a paradigm shift big time. Tugwell's style is both lively and direct, sometimes a little like a good high school sourcebook in how it anxiously seeks to explain even the most basic points in completely understandable terms. If you're looking for a good first book to read on Cleveland, this is it. There is a curious resonance with the present too: Sometimes the Cleveland story is a bit like the Clinton story; at other times it's a bit like the George W. Bush story. See for yourself.

First of all, this is a deck of cards. It is not a book.

A brief history of the cards and the 1888 campaign accompanies this product. This deck of cards is a reproduction of the original deck from 1888. The two Jokers are roosters. The Ace through the 10 are pretty standard. All four Jacks feature Senator Allen Thurman of Ohio. (He was Cleveland's running mate.) Cleveland's wife, Frances Folsom, appears on the Queens. And finally, Grover Cleveland himself appears on the Kings. Portraying a President as a King could have produced a backlash. But hopefully, most people didn't take it too literally.

I don't know if the original cards produced any votes for Cleveland. But they are an interesting campaign item from the 19th Century.

The year 2000 saw the publication of not one, but two, biographies of America's twenty-second and twenty-fourth President, Grover Cleveland. Given the titles of these two books -- "An Honest President" and "A Study in Character" -- it's tempting to suggest that the authors were looking back more than a century to find something apparently lacking in the then-occupant of the White House. If so, they turned to the right man, for Grover Cleveland was not only an honest man and a man of character, but also a great, if under-rated, president and arguably the last one who really believed in the Constitution.

McElroy's two volumes, written nine decades ago, are Cleveland's authorized biography. Unlike so many modern biographies, you won't find muckraking revelations or sophisticated (or pseudo-sophisticated) psychoanalysis. On the other hand, you also won't find the self-justification of so many modern memoirs or authorized biographies. This is just a balanced and informative look at Cleveland's two terms in office, the issues and challenges he faced, and the decisions he made (Cleveland's early life and career is summarized in about 70 pages).

McElroy's discussion of the 1888 election is particularly interesting, as well as highly relevant. Cleveland won the popular vote by about 100,000 votes (out of more than 10 million cast), but lost the electoral vote. He refused to challenge the legitimacy of Benjamin Harrison's election, but instead concentrated on regaining the Presidency four years later.

McElroy also details what I believe is the most honorable episode of all in the career of this Honorable President, Cleveland's refusal to accept Hawai`i's "request" to become an American territory in 1894. Cleveland discovered that US troops had been involved in a coup against the Hawai`ian monarchy, and that the new "government" in the Islands was an illegitimate one. He thus refused to send the annexation treaty to the Senate, and ordered the military to restore the monarchy. Alas, Cleveland's successors would not be so high-minded.

In all, though somewhat old fashioned, this biography is a good introduction to this man who is remembered today (if he's remembered at all) solely for his non-consecutive terms. He deserves better from us, and McElroy's bio is a good place to start.

This tells the story of Charles II in Restoration England; seen through the eyes of his wife, Queen Catherine of Braganza and Barbara Villiers, his greedy and sensual mistress.

Another great book by the author of Whoever Fights Monsters. This time, Ressler tells of his life before he started hunting serial killers, and of his almost obsession-like need to have justice served against a judge who hired someone to kill his wife. Ressler's style is always engrossing, and the adventures he has in his life are amazing.