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Golden Rules of Parenting: For Children & Parents of All Ages (Capital Ideas)
Rita Boothby
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Warm, wise, tough, and funny, "The Golden Rules of Parenting" asks readers to consider the question, "What might help me if I were that child?" Instead of rigid "should-dos," this gentle guide invites parents to choose solutions to behavioral problems based on both the individuality of the child and the respect and understanding they both deserve. From infancy to young adulthood, in these pages, parents and professionals learn how to custom-fit solutions to the child, not the behavior problem, and suggests the parallels between adult behavior and that of children. Rita Boothby shows how professional therapists and counselors draw solutions to problems from the clients themselves, not just from textbooks. She guides parents through the same process with their own children. This book is a must-have for all parents, grandparents, and everyone who works with children.
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The Golden Rules of Parenting.......2001-09-29
This book is a great resource for parents whether they are new or already have teenagers. Great insights and 'rules' to guide by, Highly recommended!
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The United States and Britain had already negotiated an end to the War of 1812 when their troops met on the Plains of Chalmette near New Orleans in 1815. Word of the peace had not yet reached that far west, so a group of professional British soldiers clashed with a rag-tag band of about 4,000 "frontiersmen, militiamen, regular soldiers, free men of color, Indians, pirates, and townspeople" along the banks of the Mississippi River. These were "citizen-soldiers" in the finest sense, writes Robert V. Remini, the acclaimed biographer of Andrew Jackson, and they were commanded by a man whose military experience had commenced only two years earlier. Yet the battle "was one of the great turning points in American history" because it "produced a President and an enduring belief in the military ability of free people to protect and preserve their society and their way of life." Remini may oversell the battle's importance, but not by much. His enthusiasm is the mark of a historian in love with his subject. The Battle of New Orleans (and the War of 1812 in general) has tended to suffer more from neglect than from too much attention. This concise book, full of workmanlike prose, is a fine introduction to what Remini calls "America's first military victory" (he downplays Saratoga and Yorktown as "simply surrenders, nothing more"). Military history buffs won't want to miss it. --John J. Miller
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The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's "forgotten war" of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against 8,000 disciplined invading British regulars in a battle that delivered the British a humiliating military defeat. The victory solidified America's independence and marked the beginning of Jackson's rise to national prominence. Hailed as "terrifically readable" by the Chicago Sun Times, The Battle of New Orleans is popular American history at its best, bringing to life a landmark battle that helped define the character of the United States.
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"Only Robert Remini--whose ""majestic biography"" (The New Yorker) of Andrew Jackson won the National Book Award--could have brought to life this famous, pivotal, but almost forgotten battle. In 1815, Britain's crack troops, fresh from victories against Napoleon, were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a rag-tag army of citizen soldiers under the fledgling commander they dubbed ""Old Hickory."" It was this battle that defined the United States as a military power to be reckoned with, and an independent democracy here to stay. A happenstance coalition of Militiamen, regulars, untrained frontiersmen, free blacks, pirates, Indians, and townspeople--marching to ""Yankee Doodle"" and ""La Marseillaise""--pepper The Battle of New Orleans with a rich array of characters and scenes. Swashbuckling Jean Lafitte and his privateers. The proud, reckless British General Pakenham, and his miserable men ferried across a Louisiana lake in a Gulf storm. Partying Creoles who drew the line at blacking out their street lamps. The agile Choctaw and Tennessee ""dirty shirt"" sharpshooters, who made a sport of picking off redcoat sentries by night. And Jackson himself--tall, gaunt, shrewd, by turns gentle and furious, declaring ""I will smash them, so help me God!"" His improbable victory, uniting a rainbow of dissident groups, finally proved the United States' sovereignty to the world. It was a battle that catapulted a once-poor, uneducated, orphan boy into the White House and forged a collection of ex-colonies into a true nation. "
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Battle: Its Details and Significance.......2006-09-03
"The Battle Of New Orleans" introduces the reader to this battle and its importance to our nation's early history. The battle is presented in detail without the reader becoming swamped by minutia. The importance of the battle to our nation's development is explained.
I like books which broaden my way of looking at things. This book meets this test. I had always wondered if the battle was fought outside of New Orleans because I have never heard of anyone visiting the battle site. In this book, author Robert V. Remini confirmed my belief by giving the story of the battles outside of the city extending over several days. He also explained the British war strategy of dividing the U.S. by marching up the Mississippi to link up with troops coming down from the Great Lakes in a way that I had never understood before.
The aspect of this book which most interested me was the battle's importance in the development of our national pride and self-image. I was surprised to read that, until the Civil War, January 8, the date of the battle, was celebrated as a national holiday, second in significance to July 4. In this book I learned, for the first time, that the Battle of New Orleans was regarded as America's first major military victory. Although there had been some wins during the revolution, such as at the Cowpens, most of the successes were surrenders, such as Ticonderoga and Yorktown. This was the first time that the U. S. had crushed a European army. The most important significance of this battle was the sense of national unity which it demonstrated. The British had expected to be welcomed by the French settlers of New Orleans as liberators from their relatively recently established American overlords. The British were disappointed as the residents uniformly supported the Americans. The army which defended New Orleans was a polyglot of local pirates, U. S. Volunteers from southwestern states and local militia. This disparate army had united to defeat the most feared military machine in the world. National unity had been expressed as it never had before. The Battle of New Orleans demonstrated that the American experiment would continue. This book tells us why.
A good start..........2006-01-24
I re-read this book for the third time on Jan 8 (the anniversary of the battle), not so much because it's that great of a book, but because you can pretty much rip through it in a day or two.
The book is a very good overview of the battle and the events that directly led to it. It is well researched and written, and is very easy to read. As stated before it is short enough to get through in a couple of days, and is written so that really anyone can understand it, even those unfamiliar with the War of 1812 and this battle.
Remini introduces the reader to many of the subplots that impacted the final outcome of the battle (ie: The British attempt to 'buy' the Laffite brothers and use Barataria as a point of invasion, Mullen's failure to lead the 44th forward, the British underestimating the current of the Mississippi.. etc)
Yes the book has its flaws.. Remini absolutely worships Jackson and this book is no exception. As one reviewer points out, after reading this book, you would think that this was America's first and greatest victory.. Remini would almost have you believe that Jackson was the sole reason for the victory, and none of the 'subplots' that I mentioned above had any impact on the battle.
Yes, as General, Jackson deserves the lion's share of the credit, and the city gratefully bestowed it upon him, but as with many battles, if any one of several events had gone the other way, the outcome of the battle might very well have been different.
Of further debate is just how important the victory was. Was it useless slaughter because it was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed as some would say, was it important in that it brought America together as Remini contends, or as Charles Patton writes in his book 'Chalmette' (a book I can't really reccommend), was "An American victory on January 8th, 1815 was absolutely crucial for..(America's).. survival and future."
Regardless of what you believe, the Battle of New Orleans is important, if only for the fact that it is part of our History, and in some way, whether very indirectly or very significantly led to the America we have today. That in itself is reason to learn about it.
A must read on the birth of The United States we know today.......2005-08-26
Wow. Cover to cover, I read it as fast as I could, read it at lunch, before and after dinner, and lost a lot of sleep up reading late. What a book. I love American history, and for me, the Battle of New Orleans is where we started thinking as Americans, believing in Liberty and the things we all take for granted today. Buy it, read it, a must have for any history collection. Remini gives excellent quotes complete with consumate sources and background on both the Americans and our invading British enemies of that time. An excellent read.
Andrew Jackson the hero.......2004-09-22
Battle of New Orleans - Robert Remini
This book is about the Battle of New Orleans that took place as the last fight with Britain in the War of 1812. For me, I had to read it at one sitting. Great book.
The battle took place in January 1815, with 2 more attempts by the British, to defeat the Americans after their defeat on the fields of Chalmette.
The book includes 3 maps to support some of the writing as to where the battle was fought and who was where. However, the author goes into a lot of detail explaining which unit was where on the battlefield, and no maps are shown for the kind of detail written.
The book details events before and after the battle.
He notes that a group of states in the Northeast had met in Hartford Ct, and had drafted a proposal to secede from the U.S. The war was going badly, and we had been defeated everywhere, except at Baltimore.
The British had reason to believe they could just brush the Americans off the field of battle, as they had done this in several previous battles, including Washington, which they burned, and Hampton, Virginia, where they raped the women.
New Orleans was the key to the Mississippi, and the British were sending an army south from Canada, and this army was to go north. The armies would meet, and then they would march east to the Atlantic ocean, shredding the American military in its way.
They were the best of the British army, fresh from defeating Napoleon. 15,000 of them vs. 5,000 Americans.
New Orleans was bulging with goods, having been cut off from shipping due to the war. Only the Barataria pirates dared to venture into the Gulf. The British army knew that New Orleans had plenty of booty to share when they won the battle, and lots of women to rape, so they were very much in favor of the battle.
The British endured much to get to the battlefield, but the men thought it worth the prize.
The Brits though, had to deal with Andrew Jackson. He fought the Creeks, allies of the Brits and defeated them before the British army arrived. Had they not been defeated, it is likely that the combination of the Indians and the British army would have defeated Jackson.
Jackson attacked the Indians in Alabama and Spanish Florida, and defeated the Spanish and Indians at Pensacola. The Brits had a fort at Pensacola too, and blew it up when Jackson defeated the Spanish at the 2 Spanish forts defending Pensacola from a land attack. I have read accounts indicating that Jackson was insubordinate, disobeying orders from Washington not to attack the Spanish. Jackson did not get orders not to attack until after the battles were over.
Frustrating a British attack on New Orleans starting from Pensacola, the Brits attacked Mobile.
Jackson's men defeated them there too, successfully defending a fort defending Mobile bay.
This defeat meant that the British could not attack New Orleans over land, the easy way.
They had to attack from the east, in the swamps.
This they did, attacking from lake Borgne.
Having lived in New Orleans, and having seen several movies about the battle, this book corrects some myths.
Jackson had steel gray hair, not the white hair Charleston Heston wig of white hair. Jackson was 47 at the time of the battle. The people of New Orleans rallied around Jackson and his men, and fought bravely. Jackson's men did not defend a bunch of Cajun wimps. There were 3 Lafitte brothers. I did not know that Dominique You was one of them. He has always been portrayed as a former Napoleon artillery gunner.
The author makes no mention of any of the brothers fighting for Napoleon. It is true that the Lafitte pirates were pivotal in the battle, furnishing supplies, and artillery and knowledge of the land expertise. Jean Lafitte became one of Jackson aides.
In spite of this being the best of the British army, the officers made several blunders which cost them the battle, over and over.
1.When they initially got to the battlefield, on December 23, the Brits had enough troops to take New Orleans, and General Keane was urged by his officers to attack then and there with the men he had. Jackson was not aware that they were there. Keane waited for the rest of the army, so the opportunity was lost.
2. The plan on the day of the major battle , January 8, was to attack from both sides of the river. Unfortunately, a dumb Scot officer delayed the boats taking the troops across the river by several hours, thus the attack on the West bank was delayed several hours. The west bank attack was successful, but occurred after the major battle on the east bank, so thanks to the Americans spiking the artillery on the West bank, meant nothing when the Americans were defeated. General Packenham attacked even though he knew his troops were not placed correctly. He was impatient, and had no respect for the Americans.
3. Even after the battle on Jan 8, the Brits tried again to sail upriver and attack New Orleans from the river. Had they been able to get past Ft. St. Phillip, they could have still won. The Americans held Ft. St Phillip, and again New Orleans was saved. This battle is never shown in the movies.
4. The Brits then tried again at Mobile, to make an overland attack from there. This time they took the fort at Mobile. Unfortunately, the message that the Treaty of Ghent had been signed a month earlier arrived, so further attack was called off.
Fine account of a forgotten battle and war.......2004-01-07
"In 1814, we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson down the Mighty Mississipp"... whoops! I may have been channeling the spirit of Johnny Horton there, but remembering that song causes one to remember the battle it commemorates and the all-too-forgotten war in was a part of. All that most people know of the War of 1812 was that it was the second time we fought and defeated the British. Some may know that that was the war when our great national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner" was penned (though most think it was written during the Revolution or Civil War). Few realize or understand just how important the War of 1812 was to the future of the United States, or just how close this fledgling country came to having its livelihood destroyed. Even those who know a little more about the war may view the Battle of New Orleans as an unnecessary skirmish coming well after the signing of the peace treaty between Britain and America. Fortunately, Robert Remini's book, "The Battle of New Orleans", puts the war into its proper perspective and shows us how important military victory the Battle of New Orleans was.
For those not familiar, the War of 1812 began because the British would not recognize the sovereignty of the United States and kept conscripting its sailors to assist in Britain's war with France. In addition, Britain, along with all other European nations, did not respect the United States in general. The U.S. government believed it needed to take action to secure the safety of its own ships while also sending a loud statement to Europe that this was not a country to be trifled with. So, they declared war on Britain. Aside from a few skirmishes, though, the war was not much of note before the parties met to negotiate a peace treaty. The most notable happenings were the failed U.S. invasion of Canada (still a British colony), the British invasion and burning of Washington D.C., and the famed bombardment of Fort McHenry where the fort's resiliency caused Francis Scott Key to pen our anthem. While the terms of peace were be negotiated, though, the British forces sensed and opportunity to strike a crippling blow the United States by attempting to capture New Orleans, which would give them control of the Mississippi and essentially end all of the U.S. expansion hopes and keep this nation at only a third of its current size and likely would have slowly choked it to death. The U.S., recognizing this threat, sent a ragtag force commanded by General (not Colonel, as from the song) Andrew Jackson to fortify and defend the city against British aggression.
It is Remini's assertion that the ensuing conflict, which at one point included a skirmish where over 1000 British soldiers were killed to only 8 for the U.S., was the first true military victory for this young nation. He contends that the key battles of Saratoga and Yorktown during the Revolution were more surrenders than decisive military victories and, for that reason, Britain still did not respect the United States because they did feel that they had truly lost. Even most of the War 1812 was devoid of any decisive engagements. While Remini's opinion of those last battles of the Revolution are highly debatable, there is no doubting his claim that the resounding victory at the Battle of New Orleans was landmark achievement in the development of United States as a legitimate nation and a fledgling world power. Remini does a fine job setting up the battle and chronicling all the dramatic twists and turns that took place. Reading this book is essential to understanding the importance of the Battle of New Orleans and, on a greater scale, the War of 1812. At just 240 pages, it is a quick read. Yet, it gives the reader a wealth of detail regarding that battle. It's a definite must for any history buff.
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Opened my eyes.......2007-07-19
I read this about 8 years after it was written, and it opened my eyes. Not in the sense of seeing the world as being driven by conspiracy, but as seeing the world as driven by economics. People who worry about the conspiracies are missing the more important information it conveys.
Traditional history sees the world moved by Politics, Religion, Conquest, etc. All that is good as far as it goes, but what this book revealed to me is that economics are a raw force of nature, and nothing can deviate too far from where that force leads. I don't think it was the author's intent that be the main message of the book, but it was my main conclusion after reading it. If we understand the force of economics and work with them, amazing things can be done. If we try to ignore them, we will live in the dark, always mystified about what comes to pass and what does not.
This has huge ramifications. For a contemporary example; if you want to reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere, how will it be done? If you try to get everyone to "quit emmitting" you are never going to succeed. You have to look at the problem as an economic problem and find a way to make it pay (and I don't just mean credits) to reduce co2 levels. That is just an example issue, it is true of almost anything. Want your religion to prosper? Want to reduce poverty? If you really want it to happen, you must work through the economics of the change you desire and find a way to make them work, but without ignoring the traditional ways of effecting change at the same time.
First Stone in the Digital Study of Abusive Wealth.......2007-01-05
This is a very long book, longer than Laurie Garrett's "BETRAYAL OF TRUST: The Global Collapse of Public Health," and it has taken me over two months, between other easier to read books, to examine. I strongly recommend that W. Cleon Skousen's book ("The Naked Capitalist") be purchased at the same time, as it offers a very helpful "Cliff's Notes" and summary of the larger work.
I give this book 5 stars for substance, 4 stars for personal bias, and 4 stars for being both too late, and too soon--to late to have saved us from what Derek Leebaert calls "The Fifty Year Wound," too soon to be centerpiece, as I would have it be, of a massive public intelligence digital project to nail down all the relationships and follow all the money.
Carroll Quigley's book is excruciatingly dull and filled with thousands of facts in very small print. I never-the-less recommend it for purchase because it may well be one of the more fundamental references of our time. Two other books that complement this one are Mike Rupert's "Crossing the Rubicon," and Jim Marrs' "Rule by Secrecy."
Now to my final point: others get nervouos when I begin to engage the "conspiracy literature," and I have to reiterate that the conspiracy literature is no more nor any less rife with bias and error than the conventional literature. See my reviews of John Perry's "Lost History" and Larry Beinhart's "Fog Facts." And if your really want to worry, read John Lewis Gaddis "The Landscape of History" on how inept and ignorant most of our scholars are, or the more conventional "Information Anxiety" by Richard Saul Wurman.
Quigley is the cornerstone for a public intelligence digital map that will emerge over the next few years. I anticipate that thousands of books and articles, including Sterling and Peggy Seagrave's "Gold Warriors" will all "make sense," and I believe they will make enough sense to warrant a massive re-possession of wealth such as has never before occured under non-violent circumstances. This book is revolutionary, but it is also before its time.
CLINTONS' MENTOR !.......2006-05-18
The late Prof. Carroll Quigley,of Georgetown University taught former President Bill Clinton ALL he knows-or so said Clinton at the 1992 Democratic convention.I've had this book for 30 years and its contents NEVER fail to amaze me.If yiu want to know the truth about the Cecil RHOADS sociey,Clinton was a member,or the anglophile Council on Foreign Relations(CFR),Bill was a menber of it too,READ THIS BOOK.Prof Quigley,who died in 1978,was an insiders' insider,he also had an influence on the late Sen. Joe McCarthy.The author of this review is very much a leftists.
1300 pages are too many.......2006-04-20
Quigley was a Georgetown professor who was permitted access for two years in the early 1960's to the private archives of the Committee on Foreign Relations, a Rockefeller internationalist organization that compliments the work of the Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
It is difficult to determine what the author is trying to communicate. There is no continuity to the book; nothing ties together Quigley's version of the past and of the future. It's like reading about the solar system and finding out that the conclusion of the matter is that the sun will expand and burn everything up. You are left wondering, what is the point?
We are left with the suggestion that the elite should continue to guide us in the same direction that we are traveling, but avoiding some of the monumental blunders that they have made in the past.
Quigley's version of history consists mostly of unquestioning repetition of propaganda. Quigley did a superficial job of analyzing history, and he is even worse at sociology. He touts Inclusive Diversity as our great strength and greatest gift. Perhaps he should have considered the aphorism, "Divide and conquer." The West, or any other empire, can only flourish when it concentrates on matters of common concern, not divisivness
Quigley does slightly better with economics and foreign policy, which are more in his area of expertise. He correctly observes that British and American "victories" in WWI and WWII resulted in the almost total destruction of international law. Quigley is in favor of the idea of continental blocs replacing national states. As globalization unfolds, Quigley exposes some of the hypocrisy and bungling, yet he inexplicably remains committed to the overall plan.
So, what is the point of all of this costly meddling? Quigley predicts success...and then failure. "We shall undoubtedly get a Universal Empire in which the U.S. will rule most of Western Civilization. This will be followed by a period of decay and ultimately by invasions and the total destruction of Western culture." Couldn't we save ourselves the trouble and just mind our own business?
Minding our own business is a concept based on the idea that the electorate is in control of the government, and that we have a choice. However, Quigley admits that international financiers influence and control governments. Quigley says that the internationalists, who prefer to remain in the background, should be known for their "valuable" contributions. What these contributions amount to is that they want world government, and they intend to cram it down everyone's throats.
As we slouch toward financial, industrial, and government monopoly the author reminds us of some of the casualties. "As economic enterprises have become larger and more tightly integrated into one another, the freedom, individualism, and initiative traditionally associated with the modern economy have to be sacrificed." Quigley acknowledges that in our future, "In general, there will be a very considerable modification of the areas and objectives of freedom in all societies of the world, with gradual reduction of numerous personal freedoms of the past."
To add to this loss of freedom, Quigley bemoans our loss of a spiritual mooring and suggests a return to the values of Christianity! His version of Christianity, of course. Still full of contradictions, Quigley cleaves to relativism rather than absolutes, approximations rather than final answers-not realizing that the adoption of these mindsets are what weakened the appeal of Christianity.
Finally, as we follow our present course, Quigley predicts an age of conflict characterized by class struggle, war, irrationality, and declining progress. Obviously, we're there now.
Rather than attack his sponsors, who are bringing us this New World Order, Quigley vents his frustration on the middle class. Quigley touts the moral superiority of both the rich and poor, but he asserts that the middle class consists of poorly-informed, neurotic, bourgeois, radical-right Republicans. Worst of all, they have Puritanical attitudes toward sex.
The many internal contradictions in this book indicate a confused mind or a shallow thinker. The author's history is mostly stale propaganda, spiced up with occasional pro-government cheerleading or tales of government boondoggles.
Maybe if Quigley had broken this monstrosity into several different books, he would have had something coherent to say. In this book, Quigley's conclusion is almost totally divorced from the rest of the book. This effort spanned 20 years, and possibly senility was sneaking up on the author.
A fascinating perspective of history !!.......2005-10-05
Quigley has done an immense job writing the history of the world from the elitist point of view. The winner, the powerful, and the wealthy usually write the history. Biased or not, based on evidence or not, they write the history or pay someone to do it for them, either way, they make it reality and a basis for the future of the world. As a reader, you must understand the history and the context in which it was written, in order for you to comprehend the dangers of the present and to predict the urgency of the future.
The tragedy in this book is in the Narcissism of Quigley and his oligarchy, and the vanishing hope is in the faith and the hands of the determined and decent people............
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