Many books on "leadership" fail to hit their mark because they are too abstract and can't maintain the reader's interest. That is not the case with this book. By using characters from classic literature to illustrate leadership characteristics the authors manage to find a unique balance between substance and style that really works.

The leadership lessons from the classics are still applicable today and this book gives them a fresh perspective by relating them to the modern business environment. The authors also complement the examples from classic literature with some excellent examples of recent management approaches. The result is terrific.

I enjoyed reading this book so much that I re-read it within a week. Then I went back and re-read all of the classics it discusses. The core concept is intriguing: Re-visit the major works of various authors (from Homer to Hemingway) to uncover lessons in leadership. The authors found them in abundance.

For example: The importance of understanding the dynamics of teamwork (Agamemnon and Achilles); knowing the right questions to ask...and the best way to ask them (Socrates); managing change while adapting to new realities (Ajax); the complexities (and difficulties) of management succession (King Lear); making unpleasant but necessary decisions (Machiavelli); Simplify! Simplify! (Henry David Thoreau); and forging consensus during a crisis (Hemingway's Robert Jordan). The authors also examine the works of Plutarch, Pericles, Chaucer, Castiglione, Edmund Burke, Charles Darwin, and Arthur Miller. Throughout this highly readable book, the authors also examine a number of corporations which have either applied various leadership lessons with great success or experienced serious problems for failing to do so.

Who will derive the greatest benefit from this book? I highly recommend it to those in positions of leadership who appreciate world literature (albeit in translation) and are constantly seeking different perspectives on the marketplace in which they and their respective organizations compete. Also, to young executives whose professional reading -- to date -- has been limited to various business publications and (perhaps) to the latest "hot" business books. Finally, to those recent college and university graduates with liberal arts degrees who (erroneously) think that great world literature and the free enterprise system are incompatible. On the contrary, as Clemens and Mayer suggest, they are whole cloth...and many of their common threads are worthy of thoughtful consideration.

I picked up this book because of its really beautiful cover. I love the Hemingway illustration. But I love what's inside as well. Clemens and Mayer just write with such clarity and good humor, making this a joy to read. And what they say really makes sense for me, as I'm a manager of a small company that is going through a lot of transition. I'm going to get their other book, Movies to Manage By.

Burgess on Hemingway! The stylist and the lexicologist! The sensualist and the cynic! The adventurer and the academic! Could there be a more apt pairing in terms of literary exploration? Doubtful - and delightful. Anthony Burgess is, of course, in his own right a powerful pusher of boundaries, a lover of Joyce, of watershed origins, of deckle-edged literature - and a fine storyteller to boot. Who better to tell, dispassionately and meaningfully, the story of a writer whose literary luminance so often obliterates his humanness? This is a short book, really just a Hemingway primer - but one of the first order. It is crammed with eloquent understanding and gentle anecdote, a bedside companion for insomniacs, to propel them back to Carlos Baker (for detail) and Hotcher (for heart): and of course, most of all, back to those terrific humanistic tales that wriggle and strive for a secular code of meaning in an odd world. The book is doubly worthy: as introduction to Hem, and to Burgess. Those who are new to his acquaintanceship will relish a deep, joyful oeuvre.

Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" allows the reader to experience life on the other side of the page, so to speak, the life of the authors. Recognizing the author as a person, as having gone through the human experience, is an important aspect of the reading experience. It removes the barrier between the reader and the author thus allowing a better communication between the text and the reader. The author no longer seems distant and extraordinary, so the reader is able to absorb the book on his own terms, as one discusses life with a respected friend. Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" is particularly well-written, for Hemingway (as usual) does not talk down to the reader but rather includes the reader in his life as a matter of course. A truly remarkable bit of literature...

The book provides excellent insight into Hemingway's life without wasting a word. Every Hemingway fan should read it.

"For decades, Professor Robert E. Gajdusek has crafted compelling interpretations that have helped to define the true cutting edge of Hemingway studies. With inerrant global positioning, Gajdusek situates Hemingway at the center of the multiplicitous richness of modernism. Through scrupulous attention to the text, in rare combination with inspired (and inspiring) arcs of the imagination, Gajdusek gives the reader an authentic portrait of Hemingway as the quintessential artist, the maker, the creator in the timeless country of art and the human spirit."

-- H.R. Stoneback
H.R. Stoneback is director of numerous Hemingway conferences, former director of the Hemingway Society, A leading Hemingway and Faulkner scholar; author of scores of critical studies of Hemingway; Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in English at SUNY-New Paltz; Former Director of the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris; Author of Singing the Springs, For We Have Had Song in These Places, Cartographers of the Deus Loci, his latest book is Cafe Millennium and Other Poems.

"To see gathered here so many of Robert E. Gajdusek's innovative and provocative essays, written during the last two decades, demonstrates how profoundly Gajdusek has changed the way we read Hemingway. Through his artfully rendered and intricate essays Gajdusek has compelled readers to sidestep the stereotypical myths about Hemingway's life and art so as to get to the heart of Hemingway's sophisticated artistry. Hemingway in His Own Country will reawaken its readers to the lyrical and metaphorical precision of Hemingway's writing and to the important recognition that Hemimgway's prose is, after all, not so simple as many had supposed. What a boon to have this remarkable book that will serve as a kind of In Our
Time for future Hemingway scholarship...I was astonished to
realize the extent of his work-both wide ranging and highly influential in Hemingway scholarship. He truly led the way in changing the way we read Hemingway. It was daring on his part, and he did it with flair. Notre Dame Press should be commended for publishing this astonishing collection. Again, congratulations on the publication of this superb collection."

-- Linda Miller:
Professor of English at Penn State Abington, her book Letters from
the Lost Generation will be coming out as we speak in a new and expanded edition with University Press of Florida. An ongoing Board Member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and currently Board member of The Hemingway Society, she has written on and spoken about Hemingway in national and international venues.

"Far and away the most comprehensive and compelling collection of Hemingway essays to appear, and will undoubtedly be for future single-author Hemingway collections what Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story has been and continues to be for Hemingway biographers. In these twenty-six remarkable essays Gajdusek out-ranges Hemingway's topical critics, and by sticking to the texts, out-mines his psychological probers. Hemingway readers have waited a long time for such a perceptive and incisive critical gathering. This is a double blue ribbon book!" --

Donald Junkins:
Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Director of the graduate writing program at the U of Mass, Amherst; winner of the John Masefield and Jenny Tane awards and 2 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships. Author of The Agamenticus Poems, Crossing by Ferry, The Sunfish and the Partridge, The Contemporray World Poets (anthlogy) Playing For Keeps, Journey to the Corrida and Director, IX International Hemingway Conference, Bimini, 2000.

Well Al, you've done it again. Not only have you blown away the competition, but maybe even Hemingway himself, with your deeply-penetrating comprehension of TSAR. The historical background information along with reasoned explanations of the text allow the reader to teleport himself away from the page and into Hemingway's own orb. Profound my man, profound.

This book is as good as gold.! DeFazio's treatment of TSAR is one of the best I've ever seen.

I have to disagree with the other reviewer, this book lacks nothing!

You are good to go with this one Good Buddy, Or my name is John Albert Barneske III.

You can't swing a dead cat in a college bookstore without hitting another book about Hemingway. However, A. DeFazio has graced us with a unique and interesting review about Hemingway and his timeless novel, The Sun Also Rises (TSAR). DeFazio topples the usual misconceptions regarding Hemingway and delves into the rich information surrounding Hemingway's inscribing of TSAR. Also, DeFazio provides a crisp analysis of the expatriate movement and events surrounding the timeline of TSAR, a must for fully understanding Hemingway's true intent of the novel. After reading DeFazio's opus, you feel an intimate closeness to Hemingway and his characters. DeFazio brings the once-secluded world of Hemingway, previously only encountered by the most devoted of Hemingway scholars, to our hands. However, DeFazio doesn't just provide analysis of the work, he includes a subtle display of Hemingway's true genius behind TSAR, conjuring much respect for Hemingway and his first major work. DeFazio also provides an astounding amount of other Hemingway and TSAR sources (I'm sure due to his status as the indexer for the Hemingway Review). Now, DeFazio's adept writing doesn't just supply you with information about TSAR and Hemingway, it brings you one step closer to understanding the novel in its true greatness. Not to imply that DeFazio has written only praise of the book, in fact there is impressive and concise criticism of TSAR. Yet, DeFazio's book seems to come up lacking. It seems that regardless of level of criticism and analysis, nothing can convey the true eminence behind TSAR. Nothing can properly compliment the harsh prose that made TSAR a classic, but DeFazio tries damn hard, and does a jim-dandy job. DeFazio's Literary Masterpieces: The Sun Also Rises (LMTSAR) is an invaluable companion to the timeless masterpiece. But the greatest part of the book must be the "extras" that are so common yet so poorly tailored in most companion books. DeFazio includes pictures of cafes, bullfights and many other settings. All of the locales of the book, and many other elements Hemingway touched on are detailed and advanced in LMTSAR to a point where you 're walking down the streets of the working quarter with Jake Barnes and Rob Cohn, listening to the sounds of ragged jazz from a street side café and taking sips from a bottle of good bottle of Port. Truly, the level of detail DeFazio has provided us in LMTSAR will amaze everyone, from that indifferent teenager in the back of the classroom who smells like bud, to Michael Reynolds himself. If you're going to have one companion book to the great work of Hemingway, make it DeFazio's LMTSAR...

Having just finished "Remembering Ernest Hemingway," I am eager to sing its praises! I have taught Hemingway for 30 years, have read all the bios of him--Baker, Reynolds, Hotchner, etc., and enjoyed them all--but this book still manages to surprise and delight the reader with previously unheard anecdotes, unseen photos, and candid, first-person recollections of Hemingway the friend, boxer, fisherman, hunter, and writer. The book is a compilation of interviews with close personal friends and relatives of EH. For instance, his sons, Gregory and Patrick tell what life was like with EH for a father; two men remember their experiences boxing regularly with EH; Charles Thompson, who went on African safari with EH (and was featured in Hemingway's "Green Hills of Africa")tells what it was like to hunt big game with Hemingway; Valerie Hemingway remembers being with EH during wild times in Spain, etc.

Reading each interview is as authentic and fascinating as watching an old home movie. Each person interviewed offers genuine incidents in which Hemingway's candid words and actions reveal the man in his many facets. All in all, this is a thoroughly enjoyable book, a must read for all Hemingway fans. And, as frosting on the cake, the book even has rare photos, some of which I have never before seen: photos of Hemingway and Gary Cooper; photos of Hem's boat, "The Pilar,"; photos of Hemingway with the Italian woman on whom he based his novel "Across the River and Into the Trees," etc. "Remembering Ernest Hemingway" is a wonderful glimpse of the elusive writer. I most highly recommend it.

Most of the interviews in this book were with the people Hemingway lived and shared with. These interviews are not about the myth but more the person he was.

After decades of reveling in the myth of Hemingway I now know the man they call Papa Hemingway. The book holds many intimate surprises as told first hand by those who were his friends and his sons. The book is easy and friendly like sipping daiquiries on the verando in the keys and talking among friends. But it is also voyeuristic in feeling as you listen to the interviews and hear what everyday people who knew him had to say. It is intimate in content and refreshing to the senses. I knew the myth and I now know the man. I still like him. This is a good read.

This is a book for all age readers. I picked it to read a few pages to grad students in my reading methods class as a tradebook that could be used to teach local area (VA/MD/PA) history, realistic way of portraying war, character development, or just a good read. Thank goodness I read it ahead of time--I cried at the ending. Beautifully told with uplifting ending even tho' the main character dies in battle (as he did in real life).

Through suspense and and comedy this book portrays a realistic character. When you read this book you feel like you are right there. Charley seems just like the hundreds of young men who jumped at the chance to serve their country. Written by Edith Morris Hemingwy, I would recommend this book any day.

Ésta es una novela corta, cuya narración se mete en los detalles de las situaciones, pero no aburre al lector, por el contrario lo hace interesarse en la historia.

La historia es sobre un viejo pescador que está en un periodo de mala suerte y sale a pescar. Durante el tiempo que dura la pesca muestra las bellezas y peligros del mar, reflexiona sobre el hombre y su parecido y diferencias con criaturas marinas, enseña que cada persona es producto de su pasado y así sucesivamente.

Es una novela sin sobresaltos, para que chicos y grandes la disfruten.

un cuento hermoso, escrito con la parquedad de palabras que caracteriza a Hemingway, con sus oraciones cortas y concisas, con su estilo de periodista puesto al servicio de la novelistica. este cuento trata sobre la busqueda, esa interna busqueda del ser humano, esa agonia por poseer, conquistar, domar, por no ser vencido por el inexorable paso de los anos y la muerte. esto es lo que impulsa a santiago a la pesca todos los dias. no se porque, pero esta historia me recuerda mucho a moby dick, aunque aqui la busqueda sea diferente muy recomendado. LUIS MENDEZ

Thoroughly traces Hemingway's whole life from birth to shotgun finale. Splendidly done by Baker. I am in agreement with the previous reviewer; this bio is up there with Manchester's bio of Winston Churchill.

Carlos Baker's biography of Hemingway reveals the life of Hemingway to be far more interesting and compelling than anything Hemingway wrote. Baker shows himself to have literary talent equal to that of his subject, and has written a thorough and thoroughly readable biography of Hemingway. Anyone who has enjoyed William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill will be equally entertained and informed

American expatriates and a spoilt English Upper Class woman in Europe in the 1920s, the gay life in Paris, fishing and bullfighting, the Fiesta in Pamplona - the ingredients Hemingway so brilliantly used to construct one of the 20th century`s most famous and read novel. Here Hemingway`s structure, his narrative style with the simple use of language really came on display for the first time. A book that totally gripped me and fascinated me. Excellent, brilliant, simply Ernest Hemingway!

One of the best books I've ever read. The story flows like a wide river, the atmospheric changes between the wild and crazy days in Paris and the passionate and dangerous time in Pamplona is excellent. For those who have never read the book - just think about this sentence: "It's terribly easy to be hardboild about everything in the daytime, but at night it's something completely different."

another well-written bio on the one and only ernest hemingway. key west was/is a colorful place and so was ernie. i enjoyed this one. damn near felt like almost being there and enjoying a beer with ernie.

Of the many books about Hemingway, this is one of the most enjoyable I have yet found.

I discovered it when I was living in Eanes Lane, about 2 houses away from the Hemingway House, in Key West.

This book is one of the few that is really able to convey the atmoshphere of the place--imagine how quiet it must have been down there in the 30's, before A1A connected the Keys and EVERYBODY could get down there; Think of the parties Papa threw for his pals who came to visit; the sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal weather; the sunsets, the fishing, the original Sloppy's.

I lived in Key Wierd for a couple years, and love it, but Papa's days MUST have been THE days! --Imagine bar hopping with Dos Passos or being able to sail over to Havana--the music! The nightclubs! The beaches! The Girls!--I digress, but you get the point. The recent release called "Hemingway's France" does very well describing the atmoshere of his Paris days. "Papa, Hemingway in Key West" does the same justice to the very productive and legend-shaping time he spent in Key West.

As well, there are several pages featuring a very good selection of photos from those days; including a couple black and white reproductions of great Waldo Peirce paintings in his typically loose, energetic style.

This is one of my favorite Hemingway references, and I turn to it repeatedly.

This is the first book review I've ever written, and it is because I know Hemingway fans will really enjoy Mr. McLendon's book.

The best book I have ever read on the life and times of Hemingway. Extremely insightfull into the man and his life after key west.