This book gives an interesting and excellent account of not only the history of Cass County, MI, but also gives an insightful look at the beginings and funtions of the Underground Railroad, in which Cass County played a major role. It is estimated that 1 out of every 4 fugitive slaves passed through Cass County. Founded by Quakers, scorned in the south for their beliefs in the equality of men and opposition to slavery, Cass County became a rare, thriving, integrated community in the 1800's.

When i started reading this book i thought it would be about a MORONIC FOOTBALL THUG that all the media wants us to believe they are, but this is how CASS found true friends at West Ham, who didn't care about his colour but just the love of his team and how he grew up amongs racists,football rivals and police prejedice and came out a proud person and a loving parent. Excellent reading

Never mind all the other books about Football Hooligans, this is the real thing, from real known faces - excellent - can't wait for "Want some aggro" the early years before the ICF.

It is high time for Lebanon's true story to be told, not the same old jaded and dubious Arabist apologetics.
I just finished reading Mordechai Nisan's Political Biography of Abu-Arz, and thankfully, the author does just that; he shatters the duplicity and falsehoods that Arabism and Islam have been feeding us for the past 100 years to conceal their vicious plundering of Lebanon (and their intrinsic loathing and rejection to the unmolested presence of non-Muslim minorities in their midst in Middle East.)
Professor Nisan's book is an amazing journey, and a hypnotic page-turner. And as usual with his work on Middle Eastern minorities, his narrative is elegant, his prose pellucid, and his scholarship penetrating and compelling... to say nothing of the verve, commitment and unyielding and unequivocal fondness he has for Lebanon and her people.
We should blush that it wasn't a Lebanese who wrote this book; but we should also be proud and flattered that it was Professor Nisan's undertaking. Nobody could have told this story more compellingly and with such erudition.
As a Muslim Lebanese, I am heartened to see that someone has finally summoned up enough integrity and courage to tell the true story of Lebanon and its struggle against the predatory Arabism of Syria and the thugery of Palestinian refugees and Hezbollahy quislings (to say nothing of the Syrian installed 'Lebanese' puppet regime in Beirut) who never tire from pillaging Lebanon and subverting its sovereignty and Lebanonness.
Every true Lebanese should acquire a copy of this splendid addition to the literature on Lebanonism... and anyone interested in the TRUE story of Lebanon should check out this superb work of historical sociology.

I was doing research for a senior level graduate course and came across this book, written by a USAF officer. It was immensely helpful: the clarity of the writing, the thoroughness of the research, and the enduring value of the subject matter all impressed equally. Anyone interested in WWII aviation will be pleased with this book.

Although I have read -- and enjoyed -- virtually every book in every series by the most famous female mystery writers, Carolyn Wheat unequivocally remains my favorite.

This series is about a Legal Aid attorney named Cass Jameson. As such, it introduces fascinating glimpses into seldom-seen areas of the legal system -- along with providing excellent mysteries.

The books are all very well-written, fast-moving, and entertaining. I cannot sufficiently recommend them. IMHO, this is the best mystery series available.

Cass Sunstein begins with a thesis that is very simple. I'd explain it like this. "Speech is not free if ordinary citizens do not possess it." Then, he elaborates on this fundamental idea in great detail.

The problem is that our courts over many years have defined speech as something similar to a market commodity. Now, it's equated with access to TV and radio, which is purchased at a very high price. Some politicians like to say "money is speech" in this electronic age. The courts are more circumspect, of course, but they seldom view speech in terms of the actual results.

Sunstein believes that the primary result desired by James Madison, "the father of our US Constitution," is an inspired, well-informed, citizenry educated by the free flow of ideas. So, he terms this view of free speech the "Madisonian Ideal."

Madison's view of freedom, and free speech, was always balanced with his ideas about Democracy, Sunstein says. Under Democracy, we expect freedom, equality, and justice, all three together. This expectation comes from the second paragraph of our Declaration of Independence and was reinforced by those last few, and very inspiring, lines of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In terms of modern consumerism, we'd call it a package deal.

But, the court decisions in many free speech cases promise only freedom. There is not enough thought given to equality and justice. Thus, the longterm survival of free speech is threatened by court interpretations of freedom that are too narrow and do not consider the actual results. One of the worst of those results is the obvious frustration of serious discussion of the public issues by the influence of money.

To be honest, this book is not very easy to read. Sunstein's style of writing is technical and legal. It's well worth the effort, though, if you care either way about the issue of campaign finance reform. It's a must-read in that case.

Two nice companions to this book would be "Money and Politics: Financing Our Elections Democratically," by David Donnelly and others, and "If Buckley Fell: A First Amendment Blueprint for Regulating Money in Politics" by Joshua Rosenkranz and others.

Many of us remember Gregory Peck in 12 O'Clock High, a story of Command Bombing decisions over Germany. Reviewers of 12 O'Clock High, both the book and the movie, and perhaps even the authors, often confuse the hero with the American tactical leader(s). It was "Bomber Harris", later Air Marshall Sir Arthur T. Harris, who ordered the bombing of Germany in retaliation for the inhuman bombing of England by Hitler's Luftwaffe and rockets. He had to fight for that bombing not only against Americans who felt sorry for the Germans (not having experienced having their home towns bombed themselves, and somewhat under the spell of German sympathizers in our military), but against some important Nazi sympathizers in Great Britain. Like Montgomery (see my review of him), Harris has had his portrait rewritten by "politically correct" historians and novelists anxious to downplay the British contribution to victory over Germany. When I saw Gregory Peck in that movie for the first time, I was looking at Bomber Harris, struggling alone to give back what he and his people had received. Yes, German cities and villages were almost obliterated by that bombing. I can only say that a nation stupid enough to vote for Adolf Hitler because he had a nice voice and was handy at finding scapegoats, and stupid enough to commit massive genocide, deserved to receive back some of what they had done to others. Montgomery, Slim, Harris, Mountbatten. We need a few good men like them.

As Londoner Colin Shindler wrote in the Jerusalem Post last July, Dr. Rory Miller's book about British opposition to a Jewish State from 1945 to 1948 shows that slanders routinely hurled against Israel in the liberal British press are all part of a continuum.

Miller focuses on three anti-Zionist bodies--the Jewish Fellowship, the Arab Office and the Committee for Arab Affairs.

The Fellowship, founded in 1942, included important Anglo-Jewish figures such as Basil Henriques, Viscount Bearstead, Lord Swaythling, and several Jewish Conservative MP--as well as Liberal Synagogue chief Rabbi Israel Mattuck, Sir Leonard Lionel Cohen (the first Jewish Lord Justice) and Sir Robert Waley Cohen, president of the United Synagogue, the flagship of the traditional mainstream. They openly opposed Zionism after Lord Moyne's murder in November 1944. Israel's potential rebirth threatened these semi-assimilated Anglicized Jews, who realized that reports of the extermination of European Jewry did nothing to lessen British anti-Semitism during the war.

They feared an Israel reborn would limit their hopes to become Jewish Britons rather than British Jews and expected accusations of dual loyalty to follow any support for Zionism. They also refused to equate Zionism with Judaism (as had Max Nordeau at the Second Zionist Congress in 1898.)

The Fellowship in no way cooperated with other anti-Zionist bodies such as the Arab Office, whose goal was to promote Arab causes in Britain, or the Committee for Arab Affairs (CAA), neither of which cared a fig about Jewish identity. But the latters' efforts to kill the Jewish state before it was born were equally intense.

The CAA, established in 1945 by Sir Edward Spears (another former Conservative MP) quickly became the vehicle of non-Jewish Arabists and anti-Zionists. Financed via London's Arab Legations, often via the Arab Club's account, the group at its peak successfully lobbied as many as 40 Members of Parliament. Sir Ronald Storrs, the former military governor of Jerusalem following the Balfour Declaration, was a prominent CAA leader. This perceived Middle East expert was badly informed and prejudiced, according to David Fromkin's Peace to End All Peace. According to Miller he was also terribly anti-Zionist. In articles in the Sunday Times, Storrs claimed that the Histadrut had promoted strikes in order to force independent companies out of business so they could be taken over. The charge prompted legal action, and Storrs and the Sunday Times were forced to issue a joint apology, a series of events that mightily miffed Storrs.

Then CAA chief Spears, "the defining personality in the anti-Zionist camp," according to Miller, actively took up his cause on returning to London from a ministerial position in the Levant at the end of 1944. The Jewish Chronicle regarded him as "the Pickwickian fatboy" enslaved to the Arab cause. Spears may have been the first to outlandishly compare Zionism to Nazism. He claimed (equally outlandishly) that the Yishuv supported the Allies during the war for profit. After Israel's establishment, many British anti-Zionists gave up, but Spears continued trying to delegitimize the Jewish state until he died in the 1970s.

Miller provides an excellent window onto the campaign of British anti-Zionists, an important area few others have considered. Alyssa A. Lappen

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