HO CHI MINH: A LIFE

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Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) fought for half a century to free Vietnam from foreign domination, and the story of his life illuminates the ongoing struggle between colonialism and nationalism that still shapes world history. William J. Duiker, who served in Saigon's U.S. embassy during the Vietnam War, spent 30 years delving into Vietnamese and European archives, as well as interviewing Minh's surviving colleagues, in order to write this definitive biography. The son of a civil servant from a traditionally rebellious province, the future president of North Vietnam was known for more than 20 years as Nguyen That Thanh. It was under this name that he founded the Vietnamese Communist Party, having concluded after reading Lenin's analysis of imperialism that revolutionary Marxism was the most effective tool to achieve Vietnam's independence. He spent 30 years in exile, cementing his communist ties in Moscow and working with Vietnamese rebels from a base in China, before assuming the name Ho Chi Minh in 1942, when the forces unleashed by World War II seemed to be clearing the way for Vietnamese liberation. French intransigence and American anti-communism would delay the emergence of an independent, united Vietnam for another 30 years, but Ho became an icon who inspired the communist North and the Southern Vietcong to keep fighting. Focusing almost exclusively on political events and ideological debates, Duiker depicts Ho as a nationalist first and foremost, but also as a convinced (though pragmatic) Marxist who believed socialism would help his country modernize and correct ancient inequities. This long, very detailed biography is not for the casual reader, but anyone with a serious interest in modern history will relish a dense narrative that fully conveys the complexities of the man and the issues with which he grappled. --Wendy Smith

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It's a book that will break your heart.......2007-07-29

Although the author, William Duiker, a former foreign services officer for the USA in Saigon during the 1960s, takes no side in the scholarly dispute about Ho Chi Minh's essential orientation as either a nationalist or an ideologically pure Marxist, there is little doubt from the evidence set forth in the book that Ho was first and foremost a nationalist. The evidence couldn't be clearer given the numerous occasions Ho recommended elected coalition governments to rule an undivided Viet Nam, recommendations he made to several USA officials well before the onset of the war with the USA.

I couldn't keep from wondering about the multiple millions of lives that might have been spared if the USA had only listened to its sober analysts in the region who believed Ho instead of hearkening to those caught up in the red scare.

Ho was essentially a pragmatist whose burning passion was for an independent and sovereign Viet Nam. Even his ascription to Marxist Leninism was born from his pragmatism since Marxist Leninism alone purported to provide a model by which the imperialist control of nations could be understood, resisted and broken. Accordingly, it also provided a vision through which ordinary Vietnamese citizens could foresee an end to the French imperialist occupation of their nation. Marxist Leninism was for Ho a means by which Viet Nam could become independent and self-governing.

Duiker's work provides an excellent analysis of Ho's early years leading up to his return to Viet Nam. I felt it was a bit short on content during the last years of Ho's life before the war with the USA ended. But Duiker's depiction of how the USSR and China played Viet Nam off against each other is not to be missed.

This book is worth reading.

FATHER OF THE VIETNAMESE NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE .......2006-12-01

By way of an introduction I note that while I was writing a draft of this book review President George W. Bush had just completed participation in an international conference held in Vietnam. In one of the small ironies of history a photograph of the meeting between American and Vietnamese leaders displayed a huge bust of the late Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh hovering over the room. There was a time in the 1950's and 1960's when Ho was more than a mere historical reminder in the room. To many youth, particularly in the West, `Uncle' Ho represented the most intransigent opposition to Western imperialism. Today, at a time when heroes for leftists are few and far between and Vietnam's leadership has taken a distinctly different direction toward the shoals of "market socialism" and away from Ho Chi Minh's ideas a look at his politically flawed but fascinating life seems in order.

The Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky on more than one occasion noted that the Western labor movement had not produced the kind of hardened, resilient and committed revolutionaries produced in Russian and Eastern Europe. While there were definite historical reasons for that divergence centered on different political conditions it nevertheless remained an abiding different (and does to this day). The life of Ho Chi Minh as presented in the biography under review is yet another example that highlights that difference, this time in early 20th Asia, in revolutionary commitment and intensity. While the fates and the political directions of both Trotsky and the Stalinist Ho diverted shapely the commitment to communism, as they understood it, remained a lifelong commitment, even under inhumanly trying circumstances. Ho's biographer has done an excellent job of gathering the materials, some only recently accessible from Soviet and other archives, which enable a knowledgeable reader to follow the ups and downs of his political career. That, said, the author does not and cannot really understand the nature of communist commitment and in the end can not draw any serious political conclusions about the life of his subject. His book nevertheless will be a definitive of study of Ho's life and influence.

Forty or so years ago the name Ho Chi Minh brought forth either anger or admiration. Anger, from the former colonialist power France for having been forced to abandon Vietnam after its military defeat and from a neo-colonialist American imperialist military force about to get its comeuppance from guerilla and regularly armed forces led by the wily Ho. Admiration, from the youth of the world, particularly the West, that a `new' strategy might be aborning to defeat the various imperialisms of the world and create another road to socialism not based on the Soviet or Chinese-style models.

Ho essentially built up his organization from scratch under very loose Communist International supervision from Moscow. From an American Communist's point of view the Communist International always seemed to be intervening, for good or evil, in the internal life of its party to insure implementation of the party line. Sometimes it was merely the lastest telegram from Moscow that changed the party line, for example, around the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Such was apparently not the case in remote Vietnam. While Ho was a committed Stalinist he was clearly no self-serving bureaucrat of the Soviet-type. Rather it is his virtually unchanging lifelong political perspective of a variation of the `bloc of four classes' strategy handed down from the Comintern in the lead up to the Chinese Revolution of the mid-1920's that places him in the Stalinist camp. Previously I have called such a strategy as applied to places like China and Vietnam as Stalinism under the gun. Apparently the vicissitudes of Vietnamese mountain life and geographical proximity led to more contact with the Chinese revolutionaries. Seemingly Ho was more influenced by them than the Soviets on some aspects of revolutionary rural warfare. However, a look at Ho's political actions, especially in the post World War II period, shows a pronounced bias toward Soviet leadership in the showdown of between the Soviet Union and China for leadership of the international communist movement. That tilt was not reciprocated by the Soviets as they generally saw the Vietnamese struggle as marginal to their global interests.

One of the most contradictory phenomenons that enveloped the revolutionary movement in the 20th century was the fact that unlike Karl Marx's projections the socialist revolution did not start in the Western industrialized society. I t started in economically backward Russia and moved eastward. It started in Russia with a small although very politicized industrial working class dependent on the good will of a vast peasantry and preceded to areas like Vietnam where the industrial working class was either virtually non-existent or had been militarily or politically decimated. Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam under French colonialism represented just such a development. Hence, from the beginning of the revolutionary struggle in Vietnam it was an alliance between the revolutionary intellectuals and the peasantry that formed the basis for the national liberation front not the traditionally Bolshevik intellectual/worker combination prescribed by Lenin. This is important, because the program which will animated the peasantry, land to the tiller, is very different from the program of workers democracy. And that in a nutshell is the difference between Stalinism and Trotskyism in Vietnam. The difference between `socialism in one country' and permanent revolution' Ho won, in the short term but can anyone today argue that Vietnam is on the road to socialism as either Stalinists or Trotskyists would understand the phenomena.

Best Book on the Life of Uncle Ho. .......2006-11-13

When i was in high school history class,we read very little about the Vietnam conflict.The teacher just did not have the time to give the topic justice.So it was glossed over ,as were many other political topics.Tempus Fugit.The Vietnam topic did make me ask one important question,'Was the involvment of Americans ,in the Vietnam civil war ,really worth it?'.The answer was an absolute, 'No'.After so many years of reading history books and researching accounts of the Vietnam war,i have come to the conclusion that democracy was not the main goal ,being offered by the American government.America was simply being used by Western European Nato interests to 'break the communist hold on South-east Asia'.Why? The OSS-CIA wanted to continue heroin dealing from Afgahnistan and China,yet Korea and Vietnam would be 'stumbling blocks'.Ho Chin Mihn was a Northern Vietnamese socialist,from a rural farming area.He would have become a 'Viet-Nazi',had he ignored furthering his personal education.When he labored,in France,he saw the abuses of other colonial servants. He was a Leninist,who was thrust into the Stalinist role,when the foreign polemic militaries became involved.Ho Chi Mihn said,'When the elephant provokes the docile tiger,the tiger will fight and wear-down the elephant,and the elephant will fall'. It seems history has proven Ho Chi Mihn right.

An Engaging Read.......2006-02-13

There were once places and people like South Vietnam, the "Hanoi Hilton" and the Vietcong. Names like Generals Westmoreland and Gaip, and LBJ were heard every night on the evening news, along other words like "DMZ", and "body count". These words and names still stir memories of a time and a place now fading into the distance. But perhaps none of these names shake the imagination like Ho Chi Minh, or simply "Uncle Ho".

Ho Chi Minh was at once both liberator and conqueror. He was one of the founders of the Vietnamese Communist Party, and he was a nationalist trying to force occupying powers from his homeland like the Japanese; the French; and finally the Americans and their South Vietnamese backed government in Hanoi. He was both betrayed and a betrayer. He was a visionary who understood how to manipulate world opinion. He matched wills with the most powerful nations on earth, and prevailed. Yet, until recently, we knew very little about this enigma of a man, including his real name.

Author William J. Duiker's book, "Ho Chi Minh: A Life" is masterful piece of research into a world few in the West ever knew existed. Born Nguyen Sinh Cung on May 19, 1880, Duiker follows Ho through his youth and education, his trip to New York City where he worked as a chief's assistant at the famed Carlton Hotel, his failed attempts to obtain recognition for his county at Versailles following the end of World War I, and finally, his emersion in revolutionary politics in Stalinist Russia, out which would come the man destined to be a player on the world stage.

Mr. Duiker provides engrossing insights into the people and places which shaped not only the man, but ultimately the whole of Southeast Asia, with its murky world of conspiratorial politics, and larger than life personalities pitted against each other. His passion for the man and his times is evident on each and every page, making this 577 page book highly readable and entertaining.

Superb, outstanding research!.......2005-09-15

This book is a must read for anyone who's interested in Vietnam studies. The author's objectivity in writting this text is outstanding. I have to say that being a Vietnamese I couldn't find any authoritative biography of Uncle Ho until I found this book. Duiker's style is very readable and engaging with numerous references for readers to separate facts from myths. With this book, Ho Chi Minh is presumaly no longer a mythical figure to the general public and academia. His life was truly extraodinary who accomplished exactly what he wanted for his beloved country (i.e., "independence" and national unification). I concur with Duiker that his book is indeed the "definite" source on President Ho. I recommend wholeheartedly.

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Belong: A TV Journalist's search for Urban Culture from Beirut to Bamako; from Havana to Ho Chi Minh City
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Jennifer Morton armed with a knap-sack full of cameras, chased the global art, music and culture scene. As producer and host of TV Frames a show focusing on urban culture using a documentary style format. Belong is also a look at how art, music and culture survive in places most of the rest of the world associate with poverty and civil strife.

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Fantastic .......2004-12-14

I Loved this book. Its beautifully art directed and inspiring. Jennifer Morton fearlessly shows us how art will survive and unify us in spite of war, poverty and urban strife. Really great- what a cool woman.

Life Magazine January 14, 1966 -- Cover: Ho Chi Minh and Pham Van Dong

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Life Magazine January 14, 1966 -- Cover: Ho Chi Minh and Pham Van Dong
Editor Henry Luce
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A Year in Saigon: How I Gave Up My Glitzy Job in Television to Have the Time of My Life Teaching Amerasian Kids in Vietnam

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A Decent Human Being

A Year in Saigon: How I Gave Up My Glitzy Job in Television to Have the Time of My Life Teaching Amerasian Kids in Vietnam
Katie Kelly
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A story rich in detail.......2002-03-30

I found this book to be very interesting. Kelly includes a rich description of Vietnam and her people.

A Decent Human Being.......2001-02-22

Katie Kelly went back to Vietnam to work with the half American street kids of Saigon. She was a friend to them and tried to teach them English. In her book she chronicles their life histories and what it meant to live in a society where taunting by their fellow students drove most of them out of school after five years or less. Her year in Saigon and her subsequent efforts on behalf of those lost Americans reveals what a decent human being she is. Would that we would have more like her.

Glimpses of the life of Ho Chi Minh, president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

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Glimpses of the life of Ho Chi Minh, president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh, his exemplary life and achievements

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Ho Chi Minh, his exemplary life and achievements
Trng Chinh
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Simply, an outstanding book!.......2007-06-09

My father Bill Wildprett, also was at Ambush Valley. As the first-born son of a Marine warrior, it was my privledge and duty to learn first-hand from him of those events from September 7-10, 1967. Reading this excellent book made it much easier for me to visualize the scope of the carnage and the heroics of 3/26. I've poured over his maps with him, which still smell like jungle rot and red clay, and seen both the pride and pain in his heart as he describes that time.

Please buy this book, and celebrate these extraordinary Marines.

Semper Fi 3/26!

Unnamed FO for India 3/26.......2006-09-07

I came across this book as a result of trying to find out the details of how a platoon mate from TBS was killed in RVN. I was told that the action and details were described in Ambush Valley. On the morning of 9/7/67 2/Lt Charles Ryberg was in position with the India company commander as his FO. In the initial barrage from the NVA both were hit. Lt Ryberg died of his wounds. The action is described in the book but Lt Ryberg's name is not listed. In discussions with Mr. Hamel he is certain that Lt Ryberg and the fatally wounded FO are one and the same. Lt Ryberg was a Harvard grad (graduating in 3 years) and had been "in country" less than a month. As for the rest of the narrative...compelling is the least I could say about it. I'm glad that my tour of duty was with the 1st Division and not the 3rd!

Compelling! A must buy book............2001-07-21

Having spent some time with 1st Force Recon near 881S & 881N & Khe Sanh just prior to tet, I will have to say that what I experienced vs. what 3/26 encountered during those for intense days did not compare. The format of the book and the research the author conducted was insurmountable. This book was riveting to me and those that enjoy REAL LIFE encounters. I picked up the book and read it until I finished it in one eight hour period. I picked the book up in east Tennessee at a used book store for (price)I thought I overpaid, but after reading it I can see why it would sell for (price)instead. The author captured direct quotes from the officers and enlisted alike which made it sound like I was right in the middle of the cluster (....)It was an outstanding compilation of the events that occur in a combatzone. If the VA and other parties read this book they would realize themselves how difficult it would be to maintain their sanity in times that were discussed. THIS IS A MUST BUY BOOK. BUY THE BOOK!

Ambush Valley experience.......2000-07-25

This book is very well written and very factual. It tells the story of those few days in the life of 3rd BN 26th Marines just as it happened. For most people that have never experienced combat this will open their eyes. If you had a relative or friend that served in Viet Nam and for sure if they served in the U. S. Marines you should read this account of 3/26. I served in 3/26 from August of 1966 to October of 1967 and was there at Ambush Valley. I was the 81mm mortar forward observer attached to Kilo Company during this time. I sincerly appreciate the work of Eric Hammel in telling our story.

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This review of the accomplishments and future agendas of comparative historical research in the social sciences explores its strengths in explaining important worldwide outcomes (e.g., revolutions, social provision, democracy). It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and theory, and features essays by some of the most important political scientists and sociologists currently working.

The Evolution of International Society: A Comparative, Historical Analysis

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A Classic Historical Analysis

The Evolution of International Society: A Comparative, Historical Analysis
Adam Watson
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A Classic Historical Analysis.......2007-09-28

Great Scholarly work on the evolution of society. Presents a very good perspective on the most important aspects of international relations. A must read for any discipline.

Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

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Examining Historical Institutionalism

Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

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This volume brings together original essays by scholars working on a diverse range of empirical issues, but whose work is in each case informed by a "historical institutional" approach to the study of politics. By bringing these pieces together, the volume highlights the methodological and theoretical foundations of this approach and illustrates the general contributions it has made to comparative politics. The essays demonstrate the potential of the approach to illuminate a broad range of issues such as how and why institutions change, how political ideas are filtered through institutional structures in the formation of specific policies, and how institutional structure can have unintended effects on the shaping of policy. Through these richly detailed pieces, the reader is provided not only a thorough understanding of the method of analysis but also an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the approach.

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Examining Historical Institutionalism.......2007-09-05

Thelen, Longstreth, and Steinmo examine the new institutional paradigm, particularly historical institutionalism. In order to understand new institutionalism, it is necessary to examine its origin. The formal-legal model is the old institutionalism and concentrated on the formal "administrative, legal, and political structures." It was normative in style and offered little in the way of comparative analysis; they failed to look at intermediate level variables. The old institutionalism was replaced by the behavioralist paradigm. Behavioralists concentrated on "characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors of the individuals and groups themselves" to explain political outcomes. They sought broad explanatory theories, but failed to examine the institutional "playing field" on which the actors interact. From here, the new institutionalists "narrowed down" many of the broad theories posed by the behavioralists. They began to look at the intermediate institutions which define "constellations of incentives and constraints faced by political actors in different national contexts." The new institutionalism bridges the gap between the theories of formal-legalism (narrow) and behavioralism (broad).

Thelen, Longstreth, and Steinmo discuss both rational choice institutionalism (RCI) and historical institutionalism (HI), but find the historical model more helpful. Both rational choice and historical institutionalism argue that "institutions shape political strategies and influence political outcomes" but differ in many regards. Rational choice assumes actors' preferences are based on individual utility maximization. Institutions shape the strategies used for utility maximization.

The historical institutional model argues that choices are not always made based on utility maximization, but on satisficing; "most of us, most of the time, follow socially defined rules, even when doing so may not be directly in our self-interest." Historical institutionalism contends that historical policy or previous governmental decisions, and the institutional structures that emerge out of these decisions may determine the subsequent decisions made. The process is path dependent.

Additionally, there is a social or cultural element that shapes the goals and strategies of individuals. People often resort to traditional structures, even when doing so may not be in the best interest. As such, if we want to explain choices and strategies, we must look at the context within which these choices are made. The major difference between the RCI and the HI is that HI looks at both strategies AND goals.

Differences between RCI and HI include the inductive versus deductive methodology of the models. RCI deduces its hypotheses from a broad, global assumption and is developed prior to analysis, while HI looks at more specific cases and essentially traces institutional development backwards from the case.

The benefits of historical institutionalism include its ability to explain the "variation in political behavior and outcomes over time as well as across counties, and [serves] as a framework for understanding the sources and consequences of institutional change (p. 13).

Thelen, Longstreth, and Steinmo do admit that much of the current literature on institutions fails to examine institutional change and formation. Most studies simply look at cross-national "statics;" that is, policy outcomes based on the stable institutional configurations. Thelen and Steinmo organize their collected works around three main themes: (1) explaining political change while institutional arrangements are static; (2) how and when to institutions "become the object of change;" (3) how do ideas and ideology shape and constrain policy.

Thelen, Longstreth, and Steinmo offer four sources of institutional change: (1) "broad changes in the socioeconomic or political context can produce situations in which previously latent institutions suddenly become salient, with implications for political outcomes;" (2) "changes in the socioeconomic context or political balance of power can produce a situation in which old institutions are put in the service of different ends, as new actors come into play who pursue their (new) goals though existing institutions;" (3) "exogenous changes can produce a shift in the goals and strategies being pursued within existing institutions - that is, changes in outcomes as old actors adopt new goals within the old institutions;"(4) "political actors adjust their strategies to accommodate change in the institutional themselves. This can occur in moments of dramatic change (institutional breakdown or institutional formation of the sort that Krasner's model of punctuated equilibrium highlights), but it can also be the result of more piecemeal change resulting from specific political battles or ongoing strategic maneuvering within institutional constraints."

Creating Context in Andean Cultures (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

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Creating Context in Andean Cultures (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

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A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et al--cannot help but fundamentally alter the meaning of the living words and deeds of the culture in question. Consequently, recent researchers have developed more dialogic methods for collecting, interpreting, and presenting data. These new techniques have yielded much success for anthropologists working in Latin America, especially in their efforts to understand how economically, politically, and socially subordinated groups use culture and language to resist the dominant national culture and to assert a distinct historical identity. This collection addresses these issues of "texts" and textuality as it explores various Latin American languages and cultures.

Culture and Education in Nigeria: An Historical Analysis

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Culture and Education in Nigeria: An Historical Analysis
Samuel Obidi
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The study is concerned with preserving and transmitting indigenous culture: the traditional family, modes of social and economic organisation, religious life and moral education; the spread of western education from the nineteenth century; contemporary western cultural hegemony; indigenous and western cultural values; the spread of Arabic cultures, Islam and Islamic education in Nigeria; and means of integrating the various cultural heritages for a sustainable future.

Explaining the Irish Welfare State: An Historical, Comparative, And Political Analysis (Irish Studies)

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Explaining the Irish Welfare State: An Historical, Comparative, And Political Analysis (Irish Studies)
Mel Cousins
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Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole

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As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1890-1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis. Veronica Gregg extends our critical appreciation of Rhys by analyzing the complex relationship between Rhys's identity and the structures of her fiction, and she reveals the ways in which this relationship is connected to the history of British colonization of the West Indies.

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This book is great to instill a mindset that what we do as individuals really does effect the environment. And I do care about the environment. So much so that this book bugs me because some of the things it says are incorrect. The errors have kept me from lending it out. For eg. Page 27 lists 'titanium dioxide' as a harmful heavy metal. Then why is that chemical on the ingredients list of white powdered doughnuts? P46 Claims Elephants may be extinct by the year 2000. P48 States that your toilet takes 5-7 gallons per flush! My oldest is a 1953 commode that takes 3 gallons. It is an interesting fact that toilets can make up 40% of your water usage. But where do they get 5-7 gallons?! P66 "The smallest drip from a leaky faucet can waste over 50 gallons a day." I have had 'the smallest drips' that I put containers under until they could be repaired. I never needed a 55 gallon drum!! You get the idea. The book ruins its credibility with exaggeration and overstatement. Its a shame. It is a useful concept.

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I read through this book as a child and it impacted me greatly. Ever since then, I've looked for simple ways to change my habits and routines so as to impact the environment less.

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It's a great little reference book that you will refer back to again and again. In one or two pages, each topic gives background information, some interesting facts and figures, a list of the promised "Simple Things You Can Do" and, in some cases, a list of additional reference material. Many of the suggested simple things are not only easy to live with, but can save you money, too.

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