You walk into Olivers home as he reads under the lamplight nursing a 2nd world war won heart wound and a leg that will not heal. You end up being on such intimate terms with the whole family that in order to reaquaint yourself with them you read the book over and over and marvel at her gift, a copy of this book is in the bedside table drawer of every member of my family. A Treasure

This book is one of the most complete trumpet method books ever made. It covers EVERY KEY, all forms of articullation, and range. It thouroughly works your technique and it is musical. The first book could be for a beginner or an accomplished trumpet player who has some time to review fundamentals. There are five books. Each book successively increases in difficulty.

Franklin D. Mitchell has written an extensive portrayal of the pugnacious relationship between President Harry Truman and the news media. Truman liked the media, especially when it provided the public with images that displayed his down-to-earth personality. But the president often lost his temper when the media became critical of his family, friends, and his domestic policies.

Mitchell recounts how the media played an important role during the Truman years between 1945-1953. He provides the reader with a chronological narrative in history. Mitchell reviews the 1948 election that resulted in the greatest presidential miscall in journalistic history. He also touches base with the rise of women and minorities in the media, and how the newsreel and photojournalism contributed to the Truman presidency.

The book is interesting and extensively detailed. Highly recommended for anyone interested in Harry Truman or political/presidential studies.

A pioneer of the vaudeville era, an accomplished stage actor and dancer, and appearing in more than forty films, Jack Haley was one of Hollywood's most successful and beloved actors. His role as the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" secured his place in the annals of movie history and in the hearts of movie fans through the ensuing generations. What is not so well known is that Haley spent much of the last years of his life compiling information and writing commentaries on the life of an entertainer in the early days of vaudeville before the emergence of radio and television. Haley was involved in the first all talking movie and an active participant in Hollywood's "Golden Age" and friend to a legion of Hollywood luminaries from Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan, and Lucille Ball, to Judy Garland, Liza Minelli, and Ray Bolger. All of these writings is now published and available to the reading public in Heart Of The Tin Man and represent a unique and welcome legacy of his life and memory that will enrich and inform any study of Hollywood history in general, and the life and times of Jack Haley in particular.

He is not thoughtful. He is not measured. He is not RESIGNED. His poetry is not chiseled or polished or lapidary or balanced or civil or precious or LEGAL! He shouts He rages He loves with embarrassing intensity He laughs until he falls over backward He fences with every windmill he can find He hates passionately, breathes deeply, gives up in despair, and rises again in flames. He speaks in a cultured roar or a delicate rumble.

(Well, what did you come out to see, a poet, or a reed shaken by the wind?)

Rise up! Cast off your shackles! Laugh 'til you fall over backwards! Cry 'til your eyes melt! Freeze in recognition!
Celebrate Mitchell! Read this book!

It is the English language as it ought to be used. Read this book. Protect all the children from the bullies. Read this book. Fall in love with the air. Read this book. Mate with your mate and Read This Book!

If you are the same after you read this book, either there is no hope for you or you read only Urdu.

I wonder if I have adequately conveyed my enthusiasm for this book?

This is a tremendous resource for parents who, like I, feel they can help curb their hyperactive childs impulisive out-of-control behavior by being conscious of his diet. This book explains how a poor diet and/or food allergies can affect a childs behaviour then recommends foods to substitute or concentrate on as well as supplements that can also help. What I appreciated most was the food suggestions.

Women poets in Appalachia have been pretty much overshadowed by their male counterparts--Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, Charles Wright, for example. But tucked away in their coves and hollows, some women have been writing poetry that is the equal of those celebrated male poets and have been doing so for quite a while. This collection begins to give these women their due. Although I could have wished for more poems to go along with the essays, I am happy to have this introductory edition, because I hope it will spur more interest in women poets in Appalachia. It is a fine companion volume to Joyce Dyer's wonderful BLOODROOT, a collection of essays by Appalachian women writers.
Who could doubt that poets like Kathryn Stripling Byer, Maggie Anderson, George Ella Lyon, and Lynn Powell are as deserving of notice and praise as their male counterparts? The essays on Byer and Powell are especially well done. The authors, Anne Richman and John Lang, are excellent critics and their observations illuminate the work of two writers who have themselves illuminated their place in the southern Appalachians.
Felicia Mitchell has done poetry lovers a huge favor by gathering together the voices in this book. The authors of the essays are, as she says, "open-minded critics whose balanced analyses help to shed light not only on Appalachian women's poetry but also on a segment of contemporary poetry that is far richer than some people yet know--but will, if this book does its job."
Let's hope that it does. Move over Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Ellen Voigt, and others "up there" in your literary hotbeds. These mountain women are writing poetry that spins its language in ways more engaging than most of what shows up in the pages of THE NEW YORKER or the Norton Series of Poets. Give them a listen. You'll like what you hear.

An excellent work on one town's experience in the Holocaust. It contains an excellent array of documents from the time, hidden at great risk by the inhabitants. This book should dissuade any reader of the notion that the Jews of Europe did not fight back.

This is a great book. It tells about some great hikes in central and northeast PA and gives all the great features about each hike.