This book is a collection of reviews and articles from major automotive publications about the 'classic' 61-69 Lincoln Continental automobiles. As such, you will be able to read how the Lincoln Continental compared (quite favorably, I might add) to other full-sized American luxury cars of that era.

A little too dry and academic to be called gripping, it is still an interesting read about one of the great monuments and a building that has become part of the nations psyche. Also for a book on the design and creation of the memorial, I thought it was lacking in pictures documenting the building of the actual memorial. It has some, but I was hoping for more.

This book provides over 600 pictures and is certainly sufficent for any school project that might need to be done about Abraham Lincoln. Being published in 1952 does not make this book out of date. It provides huge quanities about every detail of his whole entire life. An excelent choice for any Lincoln fanatics.

An easy read showing the gentle growth of two people through the experience of death and of living

In my studies of Sociology and Religion I was able to see the evolution of the African American church by first seeing the beginnings of the church during slavery in America. Frazier offers an excellent assesment of how the church grew and answers questions such as how the negro churches became agencies of social control and when the walls broke down and the church left its status as a refuge. But the best thing about this book is that you're given the freedom to read what Lincoln has to say about post-Frazier times and the black church. I, however, feel that Lincoln is very biased in his assesment and doesn't offer an objective view. This book is very useful to any other person interested in the sociology of religion.

If you haven't read the first book, this one stands on its own very well. However, I really enjoyed the first book a lot more. "Rich and Famous" was more like a copy of the first book, same general beginning, same plot twists, etc. It was fun as a break from real life for a few hours, but it definitely was not the original story "The Teddy Bear Habbit" was.

In case the editorial review wasn't enough detail, here's my summary:
George Stable is back! After his last adventure, he's now a regular client of Camelot Records. He doesn't expect to be rich and famous, but it's fun to hope he will be. Just when Woody finds him an idea that is "on fire, baby!" his father goes on vacation, sending George upstate to live with relatives. George has to come up with a more and more complicated plot to escape his relatives and continue his carreer in show biz.

Mr. Collier is absolutely right that contemporary American society is far too self-centered and disorganized. European nations put a very high priority on things like health care, education and other basic services. Americans are more concerned with maximizing private consumption. Why is consumerism so important in their eyes? Mr. Collier traces the history of hedonism in America and finds that it has a lot to do with the mass media in the last Century (20th) which created a preoccupation with the isolated self and its manufatured wants. This led people to identiy less with their community and more with a private fantasy world. The idealized self--tough, ruthless and outrageous must be catered to at all costs. Mr. Collier is right to attack these aspects of society today. But the book has a fatal flaw. Mr. Collier has a truly strange fixation on the Victorian period and holds its shrill self-righteous prudery up as a vision of healthy human community. The Victorian period was the age that INVENTED consumerism and social isolation. Its inflecible code of morality was often an excuse for misanthropy. It set up an ideal no living creature could even honestly aspire to and then condemned us all for failing. It made people uncomfortable with each other and thus affirmed radical individualism. Mr. Collier seems to equate high levels of social interest with inhuman rigidity and total abstinance from alcohol and dancing. In these monents he becomes just an absurd puritan. Look at groups of people like the Eastern European Jews who have a great commitment to social justice as well as neighborhood and family. They also love dancing, wine, and intense emotional expression. Pleasure isn't the problem. The problem is seeking pleasure in isolation from a warm, loving community. The Victorians were notorious secret drunkards and secret sexual fetishists. Not good role models. Read Erich Fromm for a better pean to community and responsibility.

Russel's documentary work of this great conductor is only ok. His large format panoramic photography is much more interesting. Unfortunately these photographs have yet to be published in book form.

Most geneology books are just a listing of the people, where they are from, and who they married. This book however gives the stories, traditions, and tales behind the lives of this Lincoln County family. This family history begins like most families do. Two people fall in love and create a a lineage that still continues today as strong as when Thomas and Launia began.

Grade 6-8 Twelve-year-old Jesse flees his frontier community home to live in the mountains after he strikes his father with an axe handle during an argument. Initially, Jesse struggles as he faces life in the wild and as he tries to conceal himself from others. Gradually, with assistance from a patient mountain man, Larry, Jesse learns to hunt, to skin and cure animal pelts, and to build a cabin. He also learns about Billings, a dangerous mountain man determined to drive Jesse off the mountain. As Jesse begins winning the battles with his environment, and even hunts and kills a bear with Larry, he also begins to conquer his inner turmoil, brought about by thoughts of his mother, who abandoned the family several years earlier. As lost memories return, Jesse realizes why she left and is able to gain control of his temper. His inner wild boy then becomes tamed as he reconciles with his father and decides to go home.
Collier provides vivid details about frontier and mountain life while he describes the brutality of living in the wilderness. The author's use of dialogue and inner-monologue help develop Jesse's character. However, Collier's twangy, first-person dialect makes it occasionally difficult to wade through the book. But the danger Jesse confronts and action that takes place will keep readers interested in the "wild boy" and his battles with the mountain and himself.