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This is an early Lincoln book, a collection of 11 short tales slightly linked by "The Old Home House". The Old Home House was a large house on the outskirts of the very small village of Wellmouth Port. It had been inherited by Cap'n Jonadab Wixon, and when he went to inspect the property with his buddy Barzilla Wingate, they were met by con man/entrepreneur Peter T. Brown, who persuaded them to set it up as a hotel catering to the nostalgic rich, by specializing in old-fashioned country food and corn-shuck mattresses. This provides the setting for some of the stories: of hen-pecked husbands with status obsessed wives, fortune-seeking con men, locals even more colorful than Wingate and Wixon, and obnoxious tourists (some things are forever). But 5 of the tales have nothing to do with the Old Home House, and 3 are not even set on Cape Cod. Two are tall tales set in the South Pacific, and one is set on the Hudson River. The time settings for Lincoln's novels range from the early or mid 1800's past World War I. Cape Cod Stories is set in the fairly recent past (from 1907). Lincoln wrote at least some of his books to complement the wave of national nostalgia for the pre-industrial past at the turn of the century. I sympathize with that, and the Cape Cod setting and dialect amplify it for me. I liked the 2 non-hotel Cape Cod stories best: The Mark on the Door and His Native Heath, perhaps because they provide more drama than antique humor.

Eric Lincoln's text is a critical evaluation of racism in America, how began and what it is today. Lincoln takes us into his world; the world of the African American.

The journey begins in the early part of this century; in Alabama, and focuses us in the tiny town of Athens; not a bad place to grow-up, unless you're Black. Lincoln's writing illuminates the ugly prejudice behavior of whites towards (and, as Lincoln notes, the prejudice of Blacks towards "white trash") Blacks that was predominated the South during the first half of this century. He reports his sobering findings that America was and still is split into two societies:white and Black, separate and unequal. After driving this point home, Eric takes you through the changes, notes improvements, but proclaims that America remains caught in racism and class conflict.

In an unusual twist regarding blacks and Jews, C. Eric Lincoln does a admirable job showing a symbiotic relationship between the two maligned groups. To Eric the Jews were distant cousins in the fight against racism; cousins with deep financial pockets, legal expertise and limited participation that undergirded the Civil Rights Crusades. He sees the relationship as two minorities trying to gain parity in an intolerant closed-minded society.

Lincoln's call for blacks to reaffirm, (or even regain), their identity as Africans displaced in America strikes me as a rewarming of Malcom X's ideology. Though Lincoln stays short of Malcom X's call for a return to Africa, I feel that Lincoln has failed to realize that blacks in America are American and a vital part of it pluralism.

C. Eric Lincoln ends his text in a diatribe of statements, that he fails to back up with either facts or incidences of the massive injustice he reports. For example, he states that the "national focus is on the wanton elimination of the African America Male from meaningful participation in the common ventures of American Life".

The national focus? Lincoln goes on a tirade against the incarceration of "black men" at a "unconscionable rate" as if they have not broken laws, caused injury or done the crime. He makes no comment on the victims of the lawless; black or white; he just waves the flag of injustice and racism. The destructiveness of self-interest that he writes about is also found in the arena of black-interest.

Lincoln insists that America remembers that the African minority have had their lives disrupted, their national integrity as African impugned, their culture degraded, their politics corrupted and their freedoms commandeered, taken away or sold off by the white establishment. He goes on to say that too little is being asked, said or done to allay the journey from the "harsh, inflexible conventions" of the past. He states that America, especially white America, is "still in the business of niger making." He then closes with a "No-Fault Reconciliation", whereby we must get on with the task of building the dream, the dream that makes us all American. We must prepare for a new world, a new society that allows us to trust and support each other. We are all in need of God and each other. Lincoln reaches the end of his manuscript and says, "Hey, I am a Professor at Duke University and I've got to end this book on a hopeful text, not the ranting, radical diatribe that I started with, so he comes up with his "no-fault reconciliation".

Lincoln has done extremely well pointing out both the history and problems of racism in America. His insight into the difficulties then and now for a Black person to cross "the color line" is extremely useful.

However, he fails to come up with any solutions to how we can work collectively to bring change into our system and culture. He lacks answers for the pressing problems.

To say the answer is no-fault reconciliation leaves me flat. I also found him critical and short changing the black and white church. For Lincoln religion, (IE Christianity for the most part), was more of the problem that the solution. He felt that the Black church and Black preacher kept the system in place and tended to support the oppression (pg67). I wondered where he would have put the Black minister in his triad of "Good, Bad, and Smart Nigers".

I felt that the few paragraphs that he gave to Christianity were inadequate, considering the role that the Black and White church played in abolishing slavery and in the civil rights movement.

the heroine, Damaris Spencer, lives with her grouchy old grandfather, who is tight-fisted. This doesnt seem to affect her because she stays cheerful throughout the novel.The romance bewteen Damaris and Lord Weald is not heart-felt. There is a lot of lenghty jargon that could have made the book better.

Rasch was clearly a dogged researcher and a pioneer in many avenues of researching and writing on the Lincoln County troubles. Unfortunately, this collection of his Brand Book essays, valuable as it is, shows his blind spot - a bias against the McSweens, Tunstall, and Billy, that sours his evaluations and his prose.

His writing is competent and engaging, though the collection over several decades has a lot of repetition (sometimes showing that Rasch CAN learn and re-evaluate) that becomes tiresome. Without having done any research on the author, I would guess he fawns on military types (Dudley, in this case) and the Texas Rangers, and dislikes the rebel type and lawyers in general (McSween, Chapman, Leonard).

Without the evident bias, I'd rate this a 5, but the sarcasm and slant is ultimately fatal. If you want to cover the bases, you need these volumes, but take them with a large dose of sodium cloride.

This is a facsimile edition of the 11th edition of Kirkham's Grammar (1829), a widely used grammatical textbook of the mid-19th century. The usefulness of this book depends on what you want it for. If you are interested in things like the history of education or language study, as I am, then the book is worthwhile. Apart from the grammatical presentation (the traditional, Latin-based paradigm of most older textbooks), there are a series of "philosophical notes" that represent Kirkham's attempt to be scholarly. He is particularly taken with etymology, and if such things interest you these notes alone make the book worth getting, although from the perspective of modern knowledge, most of his etymological comments are ludicrously wrong. (Of course, scholarly study in the history of language was still in its infancy.) On the other hand, if you want to learn to write like the grand old prose stylists of the 19th century, you should go elsewhere. The book represents an antique style of studying grammar--parsing is an exercise in naming everything grammatical about each word (no diagrams). The book's subtitle is, I suppose, historically correct, since we know he studied it, but this is mostly publishers' hype. Lincoln's mature prose was quite different from the sort taught as the norm--much sparer than the ornate rhetoric that was preferred. He developed that on his own, later in life, and I doubt Kirkham had much to do with it. Further, English has changed in subtle but important ways since the 1820s, and thus to learn grammar from this book would be anachronistic. Even for that period, Kirkham's paradigms are somewhat arntique (e.g., he still presents paradigms with "thou" for the 2nd-person singular.)

A short account of the final days of the Civil War where Grant forces Lee into bloody battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Grant forces the Confederates to use their most precious resource--manpower, and wins the Civil War. Good insights on how Lincoln backed Grant to the full degree in his waging of the war. Also a good overview of the final days in both Richmond and Washington D. C. For those who doubt Grant's genius, they should read this book.

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If you a doing a series of Character Building Books based on the lives of famous people, then obviously you would decide to learn about "honesty" from the life of Abraham Lincoln. Just off the top of my head I can think of six stories about "Honest Abe" that would be well worth sharing with young children. But ironically, only two of those stories make it into this book by Kiki Mosher and they are the only two stories that focus on his honest character. Obviously Lincoln's life has to be greatly reduced for this small volume, but since he is one of the most famous Americans, I have to think that most kids already know the basics of his life regarding the Civil War and his assassination. This should have allowed Mosher to work in a couple of more choice examples of Lincoln's honesty. Consequently, this book, which is illustrated with historic paintings and photographs opposite paragraphs of simple texts, is less than satisfactory as an introduction to Lincoln's life or as a lesson in his honesty. Most of the book is devoted to Lincoln's life. Some of the other titles in this first set of Character Building Books look at dedication I the life of Frederick Douglass, compassion with Florence Nightingale, and leadership with George Washington.

Before you order this book, first enlarge the photo. You will then see you are ordering only vol. three and vol. four. (You will be missing vol. one and vol. two).