"Anti-Catholicism in American Culture" Is a well written and comprehensive history of anticatholicism in America. Anticatholicism in America is as old as America itself. It arrived on the shores of America with the pilgrims who brought with them Anti-catholic feelings stirred up by the British royalty after Henry the VIII'S break with rome and the gunpowder plot in the late 16th and early 17th century. As detailed in the book Anti catholic bigotry has evolved over the years from one of True doctrinal difference and political differece's to a bigotry based on rejecting anything upholding moral standards and a belife in a christian God. A large part of this book deals with bigotry in the media, and contains a chapter by William Donahue on how to deal with and respond to antiCatholicism in the media. William Donohue is a course one of the most effective in this area and his work alone in this book is worth the price of the book.

I ordered this book form Amazon a few weeks ago and loved it. It is well-organized and tells you a lot of information about a dark side of American history: Anti-Catholicism. It tells you about the prejudices and misinformation used by those who attack the Church. I recommend this book to every Catholic and those who are interested in learning about anti-Catholicism.

Historian Arthur Schlesinger once described anti-Catholicism as the last acceptable prejudice in America. This book shows he was right.

Consider some of the evidence presented by a Center for Media and Public Affairs report.

- More than 90 percent of TV news reports were critical of the Church.

- Nine out of ten media sources criticized the Church's ecumenical efforts.

- Church teachings and practices received less support now than in any previous decade.

This insightful books examines the evidence. Not surprisingly it finds a media which uses negative generalizations, invented history, vicious stereotypes, shared prejudices, and outright denigration of Catholic religious beliefs.

This excellent resource includes a comprehensive analysis of media coverage of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1998. It includes contributions from former Our Sunday Visitor president Robert P. Lockwood, Catholic writer Lou Baldwin, associate director of communications for he New York State Catholic Conference Rick Hinshaw, veteran Washington correspondent Russell Shaw, and Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights president William Donohue.

The book also features a practical chapter outlining 12 ways individuals can improve their relationships wit the secular media.

This book should be required reading among the politically correct, anti-prejudice and diversity training fare taught on our nation's college campuses.

Prejudice is alive and well in America. It's long past time for us as individuals to DO something about it and this book clearly gives several ways we can "break down the walls" of prejudice.

I have never read a book on race relations that offer practical help like this. The eight principles are both profound and practical for everyday life. It is well written too! Get it read it and apply it.

This needs to be read by anyone who is serious about addressing the racial differences we all face. These men share their personal stories and then the reconciliation principles that have grown out of their experiences. It is down to earth and practical, hard hitting yet enjoyable. A great help without the guilt ladden junk that comes in most racial sensitivity material. Two thumbs up!

The Canawlers is an excellent introduction to life on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the effects of the Civil War on it. It is suitable for junior high through adult readers. Those who live near or are familiar with the canal from Washington, DC, to Cumberland, MD, will be especially interested.

The book is set from March to November, 1863, and is the tale of a family owned boat plying the canal. It includes family life, courting, war, rape, spying, mule care, murder, bar fights, arson, mischief, hunting, prostitution, the Battle of Antietam, wound nursing, business operation, beatings, operation of the underground railroad and gun and knife fights.

Set in 1862, during the chaotic and deadly American Civil War, Canawlers is a novel about a family who worked proudly on the C & O Canal, transporting coal 185 miles between Cumberland, Maryland and Georgetown. Their secret involvement with the Underground Railroad that helped slaves to freedom further jeopardizes their livelihood as the tides of war close ever inward. A powerful, thoughtful, and fascinating historical novel, Canawlers documents author James Rada Jr. as a writer of considerable and deftly expressed storytelling talent.

Mr. Rada presents an interesting slice of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal boatman's life set against the backdrop of the turbulence and uncertainty of the American Civil War. The use of the canal as a route on the Underground Railroad is also woven into the plot which reveals how hard work, a strong family and difficult times could come together on the canal.

Before going into greater detail about this fascinating history of Cuban-African relations, let's start off by noting the dimensions of Gleijeses' research. His work uses the archives of six pages, including unprecedented access to the Cuban ones, and he studied more than forty sets of papers in the American ones. (This is espeically impressive since many papers from that time have yet to be fully declassified.) He looked at the newspapers from thirty countries and he conducted well over a hundred interviews. The result is an impressive work of research, and while not as thorough or as revelatory as Gleijeses's book on the Guatamelan Revolution, is still the most useful work on the subject and is now the book one will look at to understand the 1975 Angolan crisis.

Gleijeses' thesis is rather simple. Castro's Cuba was sincerely motivated to encourage revolution in Africa, and from the early sixties onward sought to encourage it by sending advisors, soldiers, desparately needed doctors and other assistance. In doing so Cuba acted out of its own concerns and not as a puppet of the Soviet Union. The first major action was when Cuba helped Algeria ward off Moroccan aggression in 1963. A larger intervention was to assist rebels in Congo/Zaire against the corrupt Tshombe and Mobutu governments. Although not very skillful themselves the Simba rebels were able to repel the hopelessly demoralized army. As it happened the United States secretly arranged for white mercenaries to buck up the Congolese. By the time that Che Guevera went over personally to assist the rebels in 1965, the mercenaries' brutal actions had essentially won the war. Gleijeses is particularly good on the sources for this affair, about how the United States managed to keep their sponsorship of the mercenaries out of the press, and how the media gave these brutal thugs an astonshingly free ride. ... Gleijeses also shows that Jon Lee Anderson is probably wrong in suggesting that Guevera was pushed into going to Zaire, and he ably shows that Dariel Alarcon's own controversial account is vitiated by the fact that he was never in Zaire.

Gleijeses also discusses Cuba's awkward arrangements with the pseudo-radical government of Congo (Brazzaville) and the crucial assistance it gave to the liberation movement of Guinea-Bissau. Gleijeses helpfully reminds us of the Nixon policy's support of white supremacy: in the November 1972 vote that declared the PAIGC the legitimate government of Guinea-Bissau there were only six opponents. One was Portugal, the occupying power. The rest were militarist Brazil, quasi-fascist Spain, apartheid South Africa, and oh yes, Edward Heath's Britian, and Richard Nixon's America.

But it is Gleijeses' account of the Angolan crisis that makes this book so valuable. It contains a point by point refutation of Kissinger's account in the latter's Year of Renewal. Very simply, when Portugeuse dictatorship collapsed in 1974, there were three rebel groups in Angola struggling for power. There was the quasi-Marxist MPLA, and the anti-Marxist FNLA and UNITA. American intelligence noted that the FNLA was "totally corrupt", "subservient" to the vile Mobutu regime, and it paid him a generous subsidy. Although Jonas Savimbi, the head of the UNITA became something of a conservative hero in the eighties, Gleijeses points out that he collaborated with the Portuguese before 1974. We also get to see him double-talking, approaching the South Africans to assist him. He fully agreed to sell out SWAPO, the liberation movement of Namibia, which links Angola to South Africa and at the time was illegally occupied by the latter. Once South African intervention could not be concealed Savimbi pretended to be defending Angola along with the MPLA and SWAPO.

As for the MPLA although it was at time militarily weak and time and the stresses of war would enhance its corrupt and authoritarian features, the Portuguese army stated "it remained the most important movement in Angloa." Those Americans who were actually in Angola (and whose advice was ignored by Kissinger) agreed that it was "the only Angolan organization that had any national representativeness, that could be considered an Angolan-wide organization." The same Americans agreed that it had the support of the most intelligent and politically conscious people in the country. And so Gleijeses refutes arguments that Russian and Cuban aid for MPLA before October 1975 massively swamped aid for the FNLA and UNITA. Contrary to the arguments of UNITA supporters, American intelligence agreed that the Portuguese officials in the transition to independence were not supporting the MPLA. Gleijeses also reminds us that the MPLA was winning before either South Africa or Cuba intervened. He also points out that the problems Kissinger was having with detente in 1975 over SALT, the Middle East, Italy and Portugal had nothing to do with Russian aggressiveness, but that intervening in Angola would strengthen his hand in Republican Party infighting. All in all, this is a superb autopsy of a callous and ill-thought out policy, and should be read by anyone who admires Kissinger.

This magisterial, first-rate study sheds important light on a fascinating and much-neglected chapter of the cold war and authoritatively reveals the decisive contributions of Cuba to liberation movements in Africa. Extremely well-written and documented. Brilliant!!!

An excellent look at Cuba's actions in Africa, from its partnership with Algeria in Ben Bella's time, aid to rebels in Congo/Zaire, the independence struggle in Guinea-Bissau, to Angola.

Supremely well-documented. Definitively settles a number of disputed issues: Cuban troops did not go to Angola because the USSR told them to; in fact, the USSR was not even informed until they were on their way. "Benigno" was not, in fact, in the Congo as he claimed. Savimbi did, in fact, collaborate with the Portuguese before independence.

Particularly good on Angola 1977: a lot of stuff I didn't know about independence, and about the joint U.S./South African/Mobutu covert ops culminating in the invasion by regular South African forces. And about how the Cuban response stopped that invasion and drove them out, doing irreparable damage to the image of invincibility, self-confidence, and internal stability of the apartheid regime.

Includes, for background, a good short look at the early history of the Cuban revolution and U.S. response to it.

The author went through the archives of Cuba, the U.S., the former west and east Germanies, and a number of other countries, and obtained a large number of declassified documents.

Driven to Kill is indeed a shocking true account of the most disgusting of all crimes, child murder. Gary C. King has included in this book accounts from the law enforcement agencies involved in the case of Westley Allan Dodd, as well as segments from Dodd's 'diary of death'. The details of Dodd's crimes have not been left out by King which only emphasizes the true horror of his crimes. Every parent should read this book as it opens your eyes to what kind of people are really out there and emphasizes the need to watch your children at all times. Photographs of his victims, the law enforcement officers and signifcant places involved in the case are included in this book. Segments of the trial testimony have been added including statements from the victims' families and Dodd himself. Police interviews have also been included. I was engrossed while reading King's account of this twisted serial pedophile, although at times I felt sick thinking about what had happened to these boys. It truly opened my eyes to the vulnerability of the most precious thing on earth - our children.

A heartbreaking as well as frightening look into the mind of one truly sick, twisted individual. Should make every parent aware of the predators that sometimes lurk behind the faces of seemingly harmless strangers. I'm glad I don't have children, otherwise after reading this book I doubt I'd ever let them out of the house again. I pray readers with children will take away lessons to teach to their kids concerning strangers. God save them from monsters like Dodd.

As a true crime reader and a parent, I found this book very disturbing but interesting. It made me speak again to my children and what can happen to them in a blink of an eye. Westley was a TRUE MONSTER. It is a shame that he never got all the help he needed. The story is very graphic but it gets the point across. It almost makes me never want to let my children out of my sight again. Read it you will not be sorry!!!!!!!!!!

The authors have produced a very readable and entertaining history of Washington State including the origins of the towns and cities, the people who contributed to their development and how they developed over the years. Organized by regions and highways, it is a must for anyone interested in exploring the byways of the state and learning how it came to be.

As a native of the state, I'm familiar with the popular history of Washington that has been told and re-told many times. That is why it's a joy to come across a book with little known and interesting stories about our past. To come across a sign announcing a small town, and to be able to read about that town in this book gives me a new appreciation for the area I'm driving through and the state I live in.

This well organized and very readable book is a combination history book and travel guide. The authors personally traveled to the sites and provide detailed directions and numerous photographs as well as historical and social background.I am a long-time resident of Washington and have learned much from this book. I refer to it often and people who have borrowed my copy have enjoyed it enough to purchase their own copies.Topic coverage varies from a couple of paragraphs to a few pages. The book is organized by geographic regions and the highly detailed index makes it possible to find a place or event quickly.

Fat Tuesday was my introduction to Earl Emerson and I intend to read all of his books. Fat Tuesday was funny, refreshing, and I found it to be a great page turner. Wonderful characters. The plot I didn't figure out. I enjoyed this book very much.

Fat Tuesday is the fourth Thomas Black novel by Earl Emerson. When Black and his friend, lawyer Kathy Birchfield go to meet with Fred Pugsley, they find him dead in a pool of blood. His wife, Maggie is found holding the murder weapon, a bicycle sprocket remover. The police think Maggie killed him because of Fred's numerous affairs. Another prime suspect is Eric Castle, a cycler and former co-worker of Pugsley at Micro Darlings, a manufacturer of computer games. There are other suspects who may have killed him because Fred may have slept with their wives or girlfriends. Black's life is also in danger from a motorcycle "mama", a 3000-lb. bull named Aunt Mabel, and a crazy man. This is the most complex Black novel to date, and is an excellent read.

A very fast paced, cleverly written suspense novel. The protagonist is one you will find interesting and will want to garnish your trust. You will read this book in less than a week. Kudos.

What a delightful addition to the series. Wish there were more.

You know when you're playing a video game and you have to pause it to go do something, and you cannot even wait to return to the game well that's how this book is. It's hard to stop reading it and when you do you can hardly wait to be swept back into the book. I am not one to read books often, but I haven't appreciated a book more or read one as fast.
This book in narrated by a retired woman by the name of Dottie. Dottie has several children who are all trouble makers and cause lots of stress. Dottie has a great sense of humor along with a big heart with lots of love for all her kids even though they are hellions. She is married to an equally aged man named Joe. Joe is still young at heart but his body doesn't keep up anymore. They are both energetic and they travel the country in an Airstream camper. Joe's camper is his pride and joy and he even named her Lucille, and he feels that it is a crime to do harm to one or call it a Winnebago or along those lines. Together they have agreed to avoid all of their children (except one, their daughter Maureen) for as long as possible.
This story takes place in Washington D.C. where the couple were visiting because it was one of their life goals. But when they arrived their son Eddie some how found out about their arrival and invited them over to his place for dinner and to meet all of his friends. They were rudely interrupted by an old friend of theirs who they did not care for very much, Eddie and him exchanged some harsh words and then he left. A day later Joe and Dottie were notified that their son was being held in jail and being charged for the death of his old friend.
This book is a mystery book, and it definitely has you on your toes. Throughout the book you find yourself stopped from reading and trying to solve the case in your head. I definitely liked all of the twists and turns in the book. But when you start reading the book you feel completely lost, I found out later that this was due to the fact that the book is a sequel and they expect that you have read the first book. The characters were very real and easy to relate to, I mean Dottie kind of reminds me of my grandma because she's the caring one but there is never a dull moment when you are around her. As for Joe, his character fits my grandpa extremely well; stubborn, assertive, and always thinks he is younger than he is.
The book seemed to have quite a boring start to it, and took a while to get the story rolling so that you became interested. That would have normally caused me to find another book but instead I just kept on reading and now I am glad that I finished it.

Delightfully humurous and entertaining while also being a good mystery. Follows after Going Nowhere FAst an equally good book.

I was a bit hasty saying it didn't have IPA transcrptions. It does use a good amount of them...

Yes, this is one of the best dictionaries around. Although just because a dictionary has many entries doesn't automatically make it a good dictionary. If you want IPA transcriptions, it doesn't have it. If you don't know what IPA is, then it doesn't really matter to you ;-) But I am referring to the old 1977 printing. Maybe they might've changed in the new printing, but I doubt it. I noticed in a few instances that they used one or two word translations, which isn't good dictionary practice, especially in foreign language dictionaries. Anyways, be careful with bootleg copies of these dictionaries being printed from Cambodia or else where. The printing quality is really bad. The subscripts are a pain to make out. My bootleg has a pink cover and yellow fonts. Sometimes there were faded pages. Sometimes letters on the left edge of the page were cut off during scanning. So ask first before you buy.

Hmm... make sure this is the two volume book. Mines is about 1500 pages. If it is 800 or so, then it just might only be and abridged dictionary or just the first volume. If it is the first volume, then you need to ask for the second ;-)

This is the best and most complete Cambodian-English dictionary published. It would be nice if it were released again, there is a need for a work this comprehensive in scope.

this is a great last minute what do you want to do this weekend guide if you live in seattle. covering diverse options from the north cascades to the olympic coast to mt adams, the choices are many. trail descriptions are good, a small maps give a quick idea of where the trail goes. references at the beginning of each entry to corresponding USGS topos are very handy. many pictures of vistas offer enticements to visit the areas described

this book is best all around book for hikkng in washington. It gives you the big picture at the start of each hiking area, and then details of most trails. Cant wait to buy the 2nd edtion.

I have many trail guides on my bookshelf, but none get referenced more than this one. The descriptions are brief, but you will find many more trails in this book than in any other that I know of. Each chapter begins with an overview of the area, covering geology, history, climate, and plants & wildlife. I use it in conjunction with other guides when planning my trips, but this book is the one I always reference. My only complaint is that despite the title, the book does not cover places that are off the beaten trail.