Today we know them as Old Hickory and the Great Compromiser. However, they called each other King Andrew the first and the Corrupt Bargainer. Jackson and Clay were the opposite poles of the axis of Antebellum politics. Each man carried an ideological dislike and often personal hatred of the other man. However, each shaped the political landscape in the US perhaps more than any men after 1800. The 1820-30s were the utmost of critical in the development of the US- the crossroads where the US could prove a failed democratic experiment or emerging industrial country. In these crucial times nothing happened in Washington, DC without either Clay's or Jackson's approval. Their personal feud infulenced everything from construction of national highways, and the national banking system to slavery and tarriffs.

Watson keeps an even hand in explaining the complex relationship of these two important men. His writing is percise and insightful. The first part is Watson's explantion and analysis. Part 2 consist of over 100 pages of historical letters and writings. This allows the reader to understand Jackson and Clay thru their own words. The 200+ pages read very fast and contain all the information your likely to ever need to know about the connection between Clay and Jackson. The book was designed "to be a reasonable one-week assignment for a college course." It proves very reasonable indeed.

There is much talk today about guardian angels. Cheryl Salem, Miss America l980, relates her own experiences with angels as well sharing what the Bible says about them and their operation in our lives. I have heard her speak recently about her 6 year old daughter, Gabrielle, who died in Nov. l999 of a brain tumor. She spoke of how she literally saw the angels come into her room 3 times to escort Gabrielle to Heaven. Cheryl asked them to give her just a little bit longer with her daughter. The angels would ease back into the hall. Finally, as Gabrielle was leaving Earth and going to Heaven with the angels, the little girl was blowing kisses to them. I hope that Cheryl will update this book and add this extremely touching story. Very encouraging and informative reading! You won't be disappointed.

The only book you need to buy in order to understand animal buiding behaviour.

So much nonsense is written about animal rights, especially in the media, but hopefully this enlightening book will help redress the balance.

What do animal rights campaigners believe? Why is fox-hunting and vivisection wrong? And why should people abandon flesh eating? Salt answers all these questions with his typical good humour and intelligence. Never getting bogged down by philosophical arguments or sentimentality, he refutes every argument advanced against animal rights.

Essential reading for anyone involved in campaigning for animal rights or just curious to know what animal rights is really about.

Also highly recommended is "The Savour of Salt: A Henry Salt Anthology" edited by George and Willene Hendrick.

I have enjoyed reading this book. It is simple to read and is suitable for all ages. The story unfolds the growing up process of immature children into responsible young teenagers in the challenges of life. It also shows what life has to hold for the rich and those who need to work hard for a living and yet it is possible for friendship to blossom between the two.

What I appreciate most is how the author leads the reader to a deeper understanding that God is the one in control of life and we must put our trust in Him in all our difficulties and troubles. In this complicated age, it is refreshing to the soul to read such a simple story of trust without the admixture of worldly languages or phrases.

This book, edited by Philip Van Doren Stern, is a dream come true for diehard Thoreauvians (like myself). If you think you know everything about Thoreau's Walden, think again. This book is full of fascinating footnotes that shed light on particular turns of phrase and allusions that one thought one had grasped. The footnotes are particularly illuminating in re turns of phrases that have gone out of style. To learn, for instance, that train wrecks and such were commonly referred to as "melancholy accidents" in the papers of the time, lends an otherwise missing mordant wit to Thoreau's criticism of the railroad when he says that "it will be perceived that a few are riding while the rest are run over-and it will be called, and will be, 'A Melancholy Accident'."-Absolutely delightful! Why is this book out of print with so many purported lovers of Thoreau out there?!?

As one who wishes to know more about the "nuts and bolts" of jazz, I always insist on reveling in the research conducted by these, the finest jazz authorities on the planet. Unlike the contributions of Ken Burns and others of his genre, this is the real stuff written by the real guys. Very Highly Recomended!!

As a Tucson native, I was taken back to the dusty town of my youth, as well as how Tucson was before I made my humble birth there. Bonnie Henry does a lovely job of showing the real Tucson, the dirt as well as the part the city the only the Chamber of Commress wants you to see.

No more Worries!!! All you need to know is right here in this book. From theory to industry applications; the book is today' Antenna Engineers best reference. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and when I say experts I mean REAL Experts!! The book is a collection of chapters written by the most knowledgeable people in Today's Antenna world. It is easy to read, and it includes everything from theory, formulas, design techniques, to REAL WORLD EXAMPLES.. this is the best book your money can buy. However you might want to wait for the new edition to come out, because it is coming out VERY SOON. It will include more topics on Cellular phone antennas as well as communication antennas for PCS industry.

A wonderful sampling of writings by 19th-century economist and social philosopher, Henry George.

The table of contents are as follows:

Chapter 1: An Introductory Essay on George's Philosophy

Chapter 2: Exhortative Works

Chapter 3: A Clarification of the Single Tax and Property

Chapter 4: On Government, Politics, and the World

Chapter 5: Georgism versus Socialism

Chapter 6: On Sundry Important Matters

Chapter 7: Views on Religion and Personal Correspondence

Some of my favorite quotes:

"We start out with these two principles, which I think are clear and self-evident: that which a man makes belongs to him, and can by him be given or sold to anyone that he pleases. But that which existed before man came upon the earth, that which was not produced by man, but which was created by God -- that belongs equally to all men" (p. 61).

"Do we not all want more wealth? Why, then, should we tax and fine the production of wealth?" (p. 54).

"Land is not wealth or capital, but is, on the contrary, that original factor of production from which labor produces wealth and capital" (p. 147).

'Consider the difference between the value of a building and the value of land. The value of a building, like the value of goods, or of anything properly styled wealth, is produced by individual exertion, and therefore properly belongs to the individual; but the value of land only arises with the growth and improvement of the community, and therefore properly belongs to the community. It is not because of what its owners have done, but because of the presence of the whole great population, that land in New York is worth millions an acre. This value therefore is the proper fund for defraying the common expenses of the whole population; and it must be taken for public use, under penalty of generating land speculation and monopoly which will bring about artificial scarcity where the Creator has provided in abundance for all whom His providence has called into existence. It is thus a violation of justice to tax labor, or the things produced by labor, and it is also a violation of justice not to tax land values" (p. 68).

"There is one tax by means of which all the revenues needed for our federal, state, county, and municipal governments could be raised without any of these disadvantages -- a tax that instead of repressing industry and promoting inequality in the distribution of wealth, would foster industry and promote natural equality -- a tax that is only a tax in form, and that in essence is not a tax, but a taking by the community of values arising not from individual effort, but from social growth, and therefore belonging to the whole community. That is a tax on land values. A tax not on land, be it remembered, but a tax upon land values, irrespective of improvements. That is the tax in favor of which we single tax men would abolish all other taxes" (pp. 123-4).

"The sure foundation of the right of ownership is in the right of each individual to himself, the right to use his own powers and to enjoy what he can obtain fairly by them" (p. 51).

"The proper business of banking is the receiving, the keeping and the loaning out of money, and the facilitation of exchanges by the extension, interchange, and cancellation of private credits. With the issuance of money the paper business of banking has nothing whatever to do. It is one of the proper functions of the general government to issue money. But with the proper business of banking the government has rightly nothing whatever to do" (p. 208).

"Marx's economics, as stated by Hyndman and all his other supporters I have read will not stand any critical examination" (p. 177).

"As for Karl Marx, he is the prince of muddleheads" (p. 78).

"What we want today to bring us all together is, not union under one government that shall assume to govern, but that absolute freedom of intercourse that shall entwine all interests, that absolute freedom of intercourse that shall establish a daily ferry from this side of Atlantic to the other side of the Atlantic, that shall make everyone belonging to any of these nations, wherever he may be on the territory of another, feel as though he were at home. That is what we strive for -- for the freedom of all, for self-government to all -- and for as little government as possible. We don't believe that tyranny is a thing alone of kings and monarchs; we know well that majorities can be as tyrannous as aristocracies; we know that mobs can persecute as well as crowned heads. What we ask for is freedom -- that in each locality, large or small, the people of that locality shall be free to manage the affairs that pertain only to that locality; that each individual shall be free to manage the affairs that relate to him; that governments shall not presume to say of whom he shall buy or to whom he shall sell, shall not attempt to dictate to him in any way, but shall confine itself to its proper function of preserving the public peace, of preventing the strong from oppressing the weak, of utilizing the public good all the revenues that belong of right to the public, and of managing those affairs that are best managed by the whole. Our doctrine is the doctrine of freedom, our gospel is the gospel of liberty..." (p. 41).