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When he died in 2004, John Peel was in the middle of writing his memoir, which was completed by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft, with help from their four children. His compelling autobiography details his life as the most influential DJ in rock history. At BBC’s Radio 1, Peel helmed his own show from 1968 until his death, and first introduced UK listeners to reggae, punk, and hip-hop. T-Rex, David Bowie, the Faces, the Sex Pistols, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, the Cure, Joy Division, the Wedding Present, Def Leppard, Pulp, the Smiths, and the White Stripes have all credited Peel as a major boost to their careers. This intimate portrait of the man and his music provides firsthand remembrances of many of these acts and illuminates how this modest and unassuming man singlehandedly changed the course of rock’n’roll.
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Margrave of the Marshes
John Peel
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A man without whom popular culture in Britain would not have become popular, beloved for his championing of musical talent on Radio 1, this is the autobiography Peel began to write before his untimely death in October 2004, and completed by his wife Sheila.
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one of a kind.......2007-09-06
How do you even begin to describe the impact John Peel had on the British music scene? He was beyond iconic - there was simply nobody else like him & I very much doubt there ever will be. I shan't write a review here - will simply just use this space to urge everyone to read this book. The second half, written by his wife, Sheila, aka The Pig, is simply unbearably sad to read in parts. I had tears streaming down my face when I read the final pages. This book is as much of a testament to Peel & Pig as it is about the music.
John Peel - world's greatest DJ and a jolly good storyteller.......2006-02-01
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Any DJ who can survive the axe at the BBC Radio One station in England for almost 40 years, has to be England's, if not the world's, greatest DJ ever! John is credited with introducing an amazing array of artists to the British public - Captain Beefheart, Faces, White Stripes, all got their first UK airplay on his show. He died of a heart attack at age 65 while on holiday in Peru in October 2004. His Peel Sessions are best selling CD compilations of live shows, sometimes recorded at his country home in Suffolk.
So here's a book, part autobiography and part biography - the first half written by John himself and the second by John's wife Sheila Ravenscroft, all this being because John died as he was midway through writing the book.
And for us readers, in a sad way, this is a good deal since we get to hear from John and also from his wife who seems to have a similar "Peelian" sense of humour. If John had lived to finish the book, I'm sure we would not have been treated to his wife's detailed and witty observations.
Myself, I grew up in the north of England in the fifties and sixties and used to faithfully tape (on an old cheap 2 track tape recorder) entire John Peel Top Gear shows and then listen to them over and over during the week as I slugged away at teenage homework. He was the voice in the wilderness to us starved music junkies looking for "underground" and alternative music to counteract the bland pop music of the day.
Even if you have no idea who John Peel is, this book can stand alone as a great introduction to English life - public schools (a.k.a. private schools here in America), British Army life, the BBC, English countryside living and John's beloved Liverpool Football club. Not to mention lots of good music references.
Read the book and celebrate the life! (and don't forget to play some music, drink a glass of red wine and sing-a-long!)
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Margrave of the Marshes
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a green light to Suharto's atrocities?.......2007-09-12
The book raises unsettling questions about possible American involvement in the rise to power of Suharto. It is well known that the Nixon administration aided Pinochet's coup against Allende in the 1970s, and turned a blind eye to the purges later committed by Pinoceht. But Suharto's accession and the anti-communist purges in Indonesia involved far more dead. Maybe half a million.
Thus far, those events have received little recognition inside or outside Indonesia for any American influence. The book delves into this. It furnishes details about Dulles' fear, apparently successfully conveyed to Eisenhower, that communists were on the verge of taking over Indonesia. Recall that this was in the depths of the Cold War. The "loss" of China to Mao's forces was still fresh. So too the baleful influence of Joseph McCarthy in Washington. Given this US worldview, the book's premise is rather plausible. That, to some extent, the US gave a green light to Suharto's atrocities.
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Title: Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia.(Review) (book reviews)
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Robert William Fogel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1993
"To take a trip around the mind of Robert Fogel, one of the grand old men of American economic history, is a rare treat. At every turning, you come upon some shiny pearl of information."—The Economist
In this broad-thinking and profound piece of history, Robert William Fogel synthesizes an amazing range of data into a bold and intriguing view of America's past and future—one in which the periodic Great Awakenings of religion bring about waves of social reform, the material lives of even the poorest Americans improve steadily, and the nation now stands poised for a renewed burst of egalitarian progress.
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Spiritual Programs for the Underclass.......2006-09-20
These are not happy days for liberals. Something seems to have gone wrong with the government of experts-like-us that liberals have built over the last century. The idea was that poverty was "not a personal failure, but a failure of society." Liberals reversed societal failure, Fogel writes, with government programs to mitigate material inequality. The result is that the material condition of the poor is much better than it was a century ago.
But the spiritual condition of the poor has deteriorated. Things like "drug addiction, alcoholism, births to unmarried teenage girls, rape, the battery of women and children, broken families, violent teenage death, and crime are generally more severe today than they were a century ago."
This is a problem for progressives, Fogel realizes, because unless they get their act together and do something about the "maldistribution of spiritual resources" they are going to lose their political power and their program of egalitarianism.
Fogel sees new hope for progressives in the Great Awakening model developed by William G. McLoughlin in Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform. The idea is that each existential crisis in American life leads to a religious Great Awakening, and thence to political reform and renewal. If liberals can co-opt the current religious revival then they can develop programs to provide the poor in spirit with spiritual values such as a "sense of purpose," a "vision of opportunity," a "sense of the mainstream of work and life," and so on.
Never mind that such a program of spiritual values would amount to a government church.
Still, this is a worthy look at the progressives' Big Problem and deserves its four stars.
"THE TRUTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FACTS".......2004-01-12
My first review of this book is the Customer Review dated June 6, 2000. Without retracting anything I wrote in that review or my rating of the book, I would like to supplement my first review by suggesting three "entry-points" into the book for serious-minded readers:
(1) Mr. Fogel writes on page 10 - 'Technological advances in distilling reduced the costs of spirits and made it possible for the urban poor to afford immoderate amounts of alcohol. Reductions in the cost of ocean transportation brought huge waves of immigrants into American labor markets, lowering wages and promoting urban unemployment.' (From roughly 1875 through 1914.)
Consider the perspective of a social scientist who acknowledges the massive destitution of pre-World War II workers and their families in America (see next paragraph), but who finds remarkable causally the cheap ocean transportation rates paid by immigrants and their immoderate alcohol consumption in America; and who nowhere mentions either the industrial magnates who benefited -- not coincidentally -- from those two phenomenon, or the American labor movement which was fought most effectively for years by those magnates using those immigrants as scabs and strikebreakers. Maybe it's time to stop thinking of Robert Fogel as a historian, and consider him simply a practitioner of the world's greatest pseudo-science, economics.
(2) Mr. Fogel writes on page 177 - 'The new equity issues in the United States do not arise from the shocks of rapid urbanization, the destruction of small businesses by competition from industrial giants, the massive destitution created by the prolonged unemployment of up to one-quarter of prime-aged workers, the disappearance of the frontier as a safety valve for urban unemployment and poverty, or the undernutrition and premature death of the great majority of urban workers and their family members. Quite the contrary, the new issues are to a large extent the product of the solutions to these problems achieved by a combination of economic growth and the success of the reforms advocated by the Social Gospelers, their allies, and their successors.'
Imagine what Mr. Fogel means by the word 'solutions.' And in light of the facts described in the book American Apartheid, for example, consider which population(s) suffering "urban unemployment and poverty" Mr. Fogel thinks have had their problems solved by economic growth and the reforms advocated by the Social Gospelers, etc.
(3) Mr. Fogel writes on page 180 - '....the reform agenda spelled out by the religious Right......more fully addresses the new issues of egalitarianism than does the Agenda of the Third Great Awakening.' (The T.G.A. being the widespread reforms in America beginning at the end of the nineteenth century which led to the rise of the welfare state and policies to promote diversity.)
Imagine what Mr. Fogel means by the word 'egalitarianism.'
Four stars..........2003-11-23
I found Robert Fogel's perspective on the American cyclical progression of political/religious synthesis enlightening, and refreshing.
Fogel's secular views chime in now and then, but they are under a veneer of worldly experience, not biased partisanism.
I particularly found this book useful, (as I am pursuing a political science degree), and revealing pertaining to the history of American society, and the foundation of American government.
Why aren't Americans Happier?.......2001-11-29
Robert Fogel discusses what he calls 'spiritual inequality", in the hope that the next american spiritual awakening 'fourth great awakening" in American religious Faith will change things. Fogel points ou that change has come in an astonishingy short period, he oints out, technical process has made it possible for almost everyone in the rich world to have food, clothing and shelter: which, a century ago, absorbed 8o% of the average household's consumption. The very meaning of poverty has changed. His book deals with the relationship between, on the one hand, organised religion and its periodic "awakenings", often stimulated by technological change; and, on the other, the political drive of equality. The first "great awakening in the 173os, laid the'Logical basis for the American Revolution, starting in 1800, built up to the abolition of slavery. The "Fourth great wakening" of the book's title is the religious revival that began around 1960. Like the two awakenings, it stressed equality of opportunity. But tis has set it at odds with the third awakening, which began late in the 19th century but cast its shadow throug the 2oth century. Because equality even of opportunity is hard to achieve, it may be that equality of remains forever an unattainable dream. I was disappointed by Fogel's reluctance to go deeper into the religious debate. Will American Christian fundamentalism rise - just as the Islamic one is and roughly as a reaction to modern secular life - and will it clash with secualr Europe?
all in all the book has a worthy purpose but I would have also preferred to see a less 'scientific' or econometric approach. Thomas Frank, Sennett and even Ortega's biography of Sam Walton offer a less theoretical but more compelling view of modern American life.
Beyond Utilitarianism.......2001-01-31
Robert Fogel already demonstrated, decades ago, that he could apply econometrics to historical data to good effect. He is a founder of cliometrics, the systematic quantitative study of historical data. From railroads to slavery to nutritional improvements on work capacity, he has had few peers in penetrating tough and politically charged topics.
In this book he asks readers to conjoin political and religious movements with deeper longings for satisfaction from living. Thanks to Richard Easterlin we know that money does not buy happiness. Fogel explores what long-term tendencies in the American past sought to look beyond Benthamite utility for larger meanings. His search will not always be satifying to all readers, particularly those expecting to find a Marxian dialectic at the root of positive change.
In reading the book, non-specialists get a special treat: a non-technical survey of factors that brought on the unprecedented improvements in levels of living in North Atlantic countries over the past two hundred years.
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The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism.(Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
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Making Sense of the New Millennium: Religious Awakening and the Reform of Public Management.(4 books on globalization policy) (book review) : An article from: The Review of Policy Research
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A wildlife rehabilitator's world........2003-07-31
How great that a second edition of Shannon Jacob's "Healers Of The Wild" has come out. It is so much more than just a "guide for young people..." as she modestly states on the cover of her first edition.
While there are many heartwarming success stories in which injured, orphaned or abandoned animals have been successfully reintroduced to the wild, there are also stories of man's stupidity causing harm to some of nature's most innocent creatures.
For those brave enough to wander into the depths of a wildlife rehabilitator's world, a life-altering experience awaits you on the pages of this book, through the anecdotes and accompanying photographs.
Not being able to read this book again for the first time, I must be content to read it anew, for no other reason than to relive the warm, fuzzy success stories.
This book is a keeper.
Kudos to Shannon Jacobs, and wildlife rehabilitators everywhere.
Excellent Resource.......2003-07-23
As a wildlife writer who writes about animals in their natural setting, I found Jacobs' book on rehabilitators to be fascinating and informative, bringing the story of what happens to creatures when they have a run-in with humans, but are fortunate enough to be aided by these caring folks. As a birdwatching columnist, I am asked all the time about what to do when they find a baby bird. This book's "I Found A Baby Bird" flow chart is very good, and I am recommending it to my readers.
Indispensible Reference for Living with Wildlife.......2003-07-16
Healers is a must-have: concise, clearly-written, and easy-to-read. I consider it a critical reference for anyone whose life is touched by wildlife in some way, shape, or form. The book has tons of helpful information, addressing all the panic-stricken questions you have at that fateful moment when you happen to cross paths with an injured or orphaned creature. It's just the thing to grab in a wildlife emergency and the flow charts in the book that help sort out what action to take are the best I've ever seen. I've used these charts many times in dealing with wildlife emergencies, so I consider the flow charts alone to be well-worth the price of the book. Plus the updated edition has even more information than before. It's a real quality publication. As far as I'm concerned it's an indispensible wildlife reference and I wouldn't be without it.
Wildlife rehabber is enthused.......2003-07-08
As a wildlife rehabilitator, I am picky about book on the subject. I was very impressed with Healers...the quality of information, the layout, and the fact that it is valuable for ALL ages....for anyone who cares about wildlife, wants to know what it is like to dedicate yourself to helping wildlife and what it takes in time, money, and skills, how to aquire those skills or just where to go for help when you find injured or orphaned wildlife...and when to just leave it alone. This is a book that should be in everyone's library.
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