Dr. Calhoun is the historian for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Ga. He is THE source for accurate historical information on US Federal Law enforcement. The Lawmen is a detailed and insightful book that portrays the story of the Marshals Service as it evolved over the years moving from cabinet to cabinet and interdicting in almost every major escalation of US evolution. The book reads like a history course offering minute details and golden tidbits of information about the deputies, the service, and their endurance over the last 200+ years. Calhoun also keeps up with more modern Marshals and describes the current status of America's "legitimately" oldest law enforcement agency. This is good reading for anyone interested in the Service.

From Mellen Biblical Press... This study offers several important contributions to Gospel studies. First, to cast light on the Fourth Gospel's Beloved Disciple, the book sets forth four essential questions: 1.) Is this disciple meant as a real person who followed Jesus during his ministry? 2.) If so, who was he? 3.) What does "disciple whom Jesus loved" mean? 4.) Why does the Gospel refer to him without using his name? The author makes a thorough case that Lazarus of Bethany was the Beloved Disciple. A more significant contribution follows: Lazarus is identified as Eleazar son of Boethus, whose sisters Miriam and Martha appear briefly in rabbinic literature. This identification is based on evidence in the Fourth Gospel, in Josephus, in second-century Christian tradition, and in the Talmud and Midrash. The assumption that the Synoptics are more reliable than the Fourth Gospel is challenged. The study raises new questions about the political situation during Jesus' ministry, and the profound theology of the Fourth Gospel is explained in view of Eleazar's background as the High Priest. The author suggests that the crisis which led to the dissolution of the Johannine Community resulted from a scandal surrounding Eleazar's death.

"Dr. Baltz's clear logic and willingness to ask the difficult questions are admirable. His ability to bring new life to seemingly insignificant details is truly amazing at times. This careful exegetical approach, encompassing most of the Gospel, makes this book more than just a specialized monograph. It is a book which could easily be used in 'New Testament Introduction' courses. By pursuing an important theme throughout the Gospel, Dr. Baltz's discussion of Lazarus as the Beloved Disciple was more than just entertaining and thorough; it had, for me, the effect of significantly challenging my old views about the authorship of John....his careful research, clear presentation and various new interpretations will certainly cause the Lazarus hypothesis to be considered anew by many."--Dr. Lyle Vander Broek, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, in Scholarly Research and Review.

The best thing about this novel was the depth of the characters. Often characters are one dimensional and their actions become all too predicatble. Each character in this novel became a real person to me. From the beginning I was drawn in emotionally. I worried for the family and yet was disgusted at how disfunctional was accepted an normal for these people. The actions of the characters, especially Michelle, who sells her soul to the devil, made me realize that our hidden agendas can be much more powerful than our weaknesses and our intentions, especially when we try to hide these agendas from even ourselves. All around good book, as good as "One True Thing" and "Snow Falling on Cedars".

betting, you cant beat the action. I have above average intelligence, but I had no common sense when it came to betting. No discipline, no money management and no sense. This book was jumping out before me. the skies opening up. A hundred scratches of the head and a thousand oh yeahs. Changed my life. Follow the tenants of the book to the letter of the law. Be a fanatic and never deviate and then you just might have a opprotunity at being a winner. Without this book, there is no opprotunity. NOw being smart is as easy as bookwork. I own a comfortable life due to Lem Banker and to playing backgammon where the laws of probabilites cant be argued.

This excellent book provides the reader with an inside glimpse of the budding Marxist movement in America and Europe. These letters, mostly to German revolutionaries who took refugee in America after 1848, reveal Marx's plans, crushing work load, fragile health, deep insights, and humor! The correspondence to Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson deserve a much wider audience in America, especially the classrooms.

Commander Paul C. Bonnette was apparently not only a good dentist but a handy man to have around when the chips were down.
His letters home, written while taking part in the Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, Leyte, and other operations, are in a breezy style which may be a bit off-putting to the modern sensibility, until it is understood that his facetious tone was deliberately adopted to keep up the spirits on the homefront. The reader in any case will forgive the stylistic shortcomings when he realizes how Bonnette earned his Bronze Star during a kamikaze attack at Lingayan Gulf in 1945.
It would have been nice to see some further research by the editors on persons, places, and events encountered by the Commander in his 16 months at sea, but the letters alone are a valuable record of a brave man and a fine combat ship.

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This book, written in Douglass' later years, not only lifted my spirits but did a great deal to reestablish my faith in humanity. This was a man who had every opportunity, and reason, to be bitter and/or vengeful. He, instead, chose to fight, with his intellect and his golden tongue, for what he, and others chained in slavery and social subservience, rightfully disserved as a member of our human race. He was a man of conviction and inner strength who taught himself to write with an elegance that I have never seen equaled. I strongly recommend this book.

This novel, written by Buffalo Bill himself, provides a clear, accurate, and interesting picture of his life. Packed full with his adventures, I couldn't put the book down until the end! Strongly recommended for anyone interested in the formation and history of the American Western Frontier.

Foner's book is not only an important biography of Frederick Douglass, but also an excellent introduction for beginners, i.e. those who prefer studying history as reflected in historical personalities rather than in dry chronicles, into the problems of the American Civil War, the problems leading to it and its results.