When All the World Was Young: A Memoir
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  • Brilliant
  • Realistic of the 1940s and 1950s-----Funny, Sad and Charming
  • A summing up
  • I Wish It Hadn't Ended
  • An America Neither more Glorious Nor Less Evil, But Simpler and Incredibly Different
When All the World Was Young: A Memoir

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The author deemed "a national treasure" by the Philadelphia Inquirer finally tells her own story, with this sharp and atmospheric memoir of a postwar American childhood.

Barbara Holland finally brings her wit and wisdom to the one subject her fans have been clamoring for for years: herself. When All the World Was Young is Holland's memoir of growing up in Washington, D.C. during the 1940s and 50s, and is a deliciously subversive, sensitive journey into her past. Mixing politics (World War II, Senator McCarthy) with personal meditations on fatherhood, mothers and their duties, and "the long dark night of junior high school," Holland gives readers a unique and sharp-eyed look at history as well as hard-earned insight into her own life. A shy, awkward girl with an overbearing stepfather and a bookworm mother, Holland surprises everyone by growing up into the confident, brainy, successful writer she is today. Tough, funny, and nostalgic yet unsentimental, When All the World Was Young is a true pleasure to read.

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5 out of 5 stars Brilliant.......2007-05-28

Nostalgically deep yet painfully honest account of a young girl who never quite fit in set in the halcion days of America's golden age.

5 out of 5 stars Realistic of the 1940s and 1950s-----Funny, Sad and Charming.......2007-04-05

WHEN ALL THE WORLD WAS YOUNG is an immensely readable book. Barbara Holland's story kept me interested from start to finish. She left me wanting to know more about her writing career, her marriages and mostly her children. The story had added interest to me because, like Barbara, I also grew up in the Washington, D.C. area.

I could also identify with the distress that she experienced during her school years. So many children are happy until they start school. I guess it's a major awakening when the world intrudes into our lives for the first time. We're on our own with opinionated teachers and other children who may not like us for reasons that we don't understand.

This is a memoir and so not everything is answered, but the true measure of any good story is not wanting it to end.


5 out of 5 stars A summing up.......2007-02-03

"Growing up is the process of learning how many things you can't do and how many people you can't be. When you've winnowed them out, what's left is you." - Barbara Holland

I've said before of author/essayist Barbara Holland that she has a remarkable talent for perceiving the small details of life and living. Or rather, a talent for remembering what she perceives and subsequently bringing it to the attention of the lumpish rest of us.

In mid-2006, Holland wrote a piece for the magazine AARP, "Being 70: The View from Up Here." So, published in 2005, WHEN ALL THE WORLD WAS YOUNG can perhaps be taken as Barbara's final word on the subject of her formative years. Somehow, I don't expect a sequel.

This volume is Holland's episodic narrative of her life from shortly before the beginning of World War II, at which time she was about six, to her first job in the display department of the Hecht Company in her (apparently) very early twenties. Measured against the comparatively happy memoirs of other female writers - Laura Shaine Cunningham (Sleeping Arrangements) and Doris Kearns Goodwin (Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir) come to mind - WHEN ALL THE WORLD WAS YOUNG is surprisingly bittersweet. The author is not reticent about her sternly authoritative stepfather, a self-absorbed mother disengaged from maternalism, her shoplifting phase, her high school abortion, and her wretched first marriage.

As in all of Holland's books that I've read to date, her wry, iconoclastic humor is a joy. She relates how, in the fourth grade, she was given the assignment of reading a passage from the Bible to the class every morning.

"I read my classmates a psalm a day, looking for the most rousing ones to hold my audience. ('Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not. Then did I beat them small as dust before the wind. I did cast them out as dirt in the streets.' Psalm 18, perfect for the playground.)"

Because of her talent for perception, she comes across with unorthodox snippets of insight, such as: "Peculiar relatives make good stories in later life, but to a child they're a wobbly rudder." Or this: "Down below the grownup eye level, even the best-kept suburb seethed with action."

I wished WHEN ALL THE WORLD WAS YOUNG was two, three, four times as long. As a child, Barbara was an awkward loner who found companionship with only one or two really close friends, and who otherwise found escape in books. I soon realized that she and I, when growing up, were much alike. And my affection for her has grown accordingly.

5 out of 5 stars I Wish It Hadn't Ended.......2007-01-23

I wish it hadn't ended -- but it ends, just the way it begins, with the perfect sentence. OH my gosh, where to begin. I can only say that I adore Barbara Holland's phrases and analogies. This is memorable stuff, turning me right into an annoying cheerleader along the lines of "You HAVE to read this book!" I feel it's my duty, as a friend and relative, to recommend it to others, especially my three sisters. We were born in Washington, D.C. (post-war), raised in the Virginia suburbs, and frequently visited our aunts in Maryland, in what's now a neighborhood more dangerous than Fallujah, so "When All the World Was Young" has the added allure of familiar nostalgia. But mainly, it's just a perfect memoir: rich, comic, dark, fearlessly honest, revealing, highly comforting. With two children in public high school in the much-touted Fairfax County School System, I feel great heaps of despair over the whole shebang (for lack of ability to better describe our personal education woes and utter lack of "school spirit"). Just reading Ms. Holland's reminiscences about school has bucked me up enormously, really more than anything else ever has. For this alone, I owe her much gratitude, but I'm also thankful for laughing my head off over subjects like the 1950 government's instructions on dealing with nuclear attack. I don't want to give anything else away; incidentally, be forewarned about reading Lynn Harnett's review because she basically gives the whole book away - yikes! For me, "When All The World Was Young" is right up there with Betty MacDonald's memoirs and Cornelia Otis Skinner's "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay", and that's high praise. Highly recommended; thank you, Barbara Holland! (Please keep writing)

5 out of 5 stars An America Neither more Glorious Nor Less Evil, But Simpler and Incredibly Different.......2006-06-13

Unlike many autobiographies, this one avoided two frequent mistakes. First, it did not read like a boring recitation of events which plaques so much nonfiction. Barbara Holland is a gifted and interesting writer. But more importantly, she does not make excuses for, sugercoat, or gloss over her sometimes none too stellar behavior. She avoids the mistake of portraying herself as a heroine, always right, at the mercy of the mistakes of others. Her hobby of shop lifting as a young child is described and explained forthright, not excused. Even at the end of the book as life whirls out of control, she never whines. She always accepts responsibility for her behavior. Although she explains why she was misunderstood or why she was just plain acting badly, she never (like so many autobiograhers) blames anyone and everyone else for her troubles. This is an insightful look into the disturbed life of a sometimes happy, but mostly unhappy childhood, and a brilliant portrayal of the times. Growing up in the late fourties and fifties myself, this book jogged my memory over and over. It truly was a time like no other, an atmophere in American that our children and grandchildren, unfortunately, can never experience. Kids went out to play without supervision and had free rein of the neighborhood. We did not wear bike helmets and knee pads and globs of suntan lotion, and we certainly didn't carry music and cellphones. An innocent (and, as one reviewer says) a not so innocent time, when the world was neither more glorious nor less evil, but truly simpler, quieter, and incredibly, gloriously different.

The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty: The Captain's Account of the Mutiny and His 3,600 Mile Voyage in an Open Boat
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The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty: The Captain's Account of the Mutiny and His 3,600 Mile Voyage in an Open Boat
William Bligh
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Captain William Bligh's account of the fatal voyage of the Bounty, and his subsequent 3,600-mile trip to Timor in an open boat. Bligh was not the tyrant of legend--in fact, he may have been one of the most lenient commanders of a Pacific exploration ship of that period.

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5 out of 5 stars Greatest Naval Officer in History.......2007-05-07

This book like the 1984 film dispels the myth of the evil Capt Bligh and the heroic and dashing Mr. Christian. William T Bligh was the greatest naval officer in history. The mutiny itself was not shocking in as much as Bligh's command of it's open launch and the 2600 mile journey he made in it with his loyal officers and men. Such a feat would be incredible today given the size of the Bounty's launch and the meager food and water given to them by the mutineers.

5 out of 5 stars One heck of a book!!!.......2004-04-19

In The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty is about man named William Bligh who as a boy of only 16 starts sailing on British ships. The events that happen to this man happen mostly on the South Seas. William eventually becomes a captain of a vessel called the HMS Bounty. He never expected the most dastardly dead that men can do on a ship would happen to him especially by the one man he trusted most Fletcher Christian. Christian was an officer that Bligh had taught everything to he was going to be his successor. Evidently Fletcher Christian wanted to be the successor earlier than planned.

As I started reading The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty I thought that Bligh was a tuff commanded that treated his men very harshly. As I read on though, he may not have treated them harsh enough to keep them from committing mutiny. They committed the worst crime a sailor can commit out on the open seas. A crime that is punishable by death. If he would have treated them more severely when they took extra food and water that he ordered them not to take they may not have committed what they did. "I found necessary to punish Mathew Quintal, one of the seamen, for insolence and mutinous behavior" (William Bligh 40).

William Bligh is the only captain that I know of that could captain a rotten, smaller vessel that barely fits all eighteen of his men, fight off hostile natives and eventually make back to England. He also managed to keep his men's spirits up when the times were really tough. He even gave away part of his rations to keep his men healthy. "Come back, man! You'll be killed!" (Bligh 164).

One part of this book that bothered me the whole time until the very end was, "Why did then men of the Bounty commit mutiny and leave the captain with the mostly skilled workers when they new if the men that were set adrift made it back home they would be hung when found by the English government. "When we were put of the Bounty, we had only enough food for five days. The mutineers must have decided that we could find shelter only at the Friendly Islands" (Bligh 234).

I think readers learn a lot from this book. Not only is it a great book it teaches readers that if you believe in what you want to achieve anything can happen. The men on the little raft believed and they made it to the English settlements and eventually made it all the way back to England which was a wonderful achievement. These men believed in there leader (William Bligh) and he came through for them by leading them to safety and only losing six men.

4 out of 5 stars From the Horse's Mouth makes this a Must Buy!.......2003-07-14

You are going to buy this book, of course you are. How can you not, for it is the actual book written by the notorious Capt. Bligh himself. If you are the least bit interested in the voyage that became the Mutiny on the Bounty and its aftermath, you've got to get to it. This book is fascinating not so much because of the description of the mutiny because Captain Bligh surprisingly has very little to say on the subject. No, you'll find this fascinating stuff because it allows one a glimpse into life in the South Pacific hundreds of years ago, and how miserable a castaway crew can become. You will also be able to form your own opnions about the sort of man Captain Bligh was. It is an interesting and challenging task to do so, however, because the man is careful to conceal most of his personality and emotions behind a rather dry and unimaginative journeyman's description of this adventure. Actually, it is this mechanical and rather bloodless recitation of facts surrounding what was a most terrifying and terrific adventure that clues one in that Captain Bligh, despite being an extraordinary seaman was certainly obtuse and even a bit of a creep (pompous ass, at the very least); at least he made my skin crawl at times. He also caused me to marvel at his many skills and tenacity (orneriness?), and even he was unable to completely suppress his emotions and allow himself free rein to personalize a few of the incidents that occured along the way. Few people could have accomplished his feat, that is to sail more than one thousand miles across the ocean in a small wooden boat filled with a hopeless and starving crew always teetering on the brink of disaster. It's also funny that Bligh turned up in all sorts of places around the globe in his life time and one finds him sprinkled throughout history. Did you know, for instance, that he commanded a ship under Lord Nelson in at least one of that man's most famous battles? He also accompanied the famed Captain Cook on one of his famous voyages which is how he got the job on the Bounty. I've ranked this only four stars because the book is really not a joy to read, Captain Bligh's skills most certainly lay in the nautical world. In this day and age, he probably would have found a ghost writer to lively up his self. Yet, this book is essential grist for the mill of Bounty hunters.
The Mutiny on Board the H.M.S. Bounty (Great Illustrated Classics)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Suspensfully thrilling!
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4 out of 5 stars Suspensfully thrilling!.......1999-02-18

This suspensful story of courage, bravery, and traitorousness is a must-read for everyone. Whether Bligh was a harsh cruel captain or whether Fletcher Christian, the leader of the mutiny was the one who was out of line has yet to be proven, but one can easily form their own opinions on the truth within the first few chapters. I beseech anyone who is contemplating whether or not to read this to give it a chance, and I guarantee you'll love it!
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            86910 (6 cassettes/8 hours). P 1987 Recorded Books, Inc. Unabridged. By William Bligh. Narrated by Norman Dietz. "It is 27,000 sea-miles from Plymouth to Tahiti: 3 months to cross the Southern Atlantic, a month battling the gales off Cape Horn only to turn down wind and run down the long easterly route by the Cape of Good Hope with the food gone bad and the weather worsening in a reeking 90-foot boat with 46 men on board. Bligh, it's true, laid 24 lashes on the back of Matthew Quintal and ripped it raw: harsh but expedient justice, Bligh claims. And then 6 months on Tahiti..." (from back case)
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                  The Facts on the King James Only Debate (The Facts On Series)
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                  • "Another Red Herring"
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                  John Ankerberg and John Weldon’s popular Facts On books (more than 800,000 copies sold) have new covers and updated material! Known for their extensive research and Bible knowledge, the authors offer readers the essential facts they need to evaluate and discuss today’s issues. The concise, easy–to–follow information helps readers:

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                  1 out of 5 stars Reads like the Davinci Code.......2006-06-25

                  interesting book, full of half truths and shoddy research. Reminds me of the Davinci Code - a nice piece of fiction. This book leaves a lot to be desired other than it gives some information which you can research and refute yourself (any kid in a library could).

                  Not worth wasting your time or money on. As Romans 1:28 correctly translates "(b)..God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient". Hmmm reprobate means "to refuse to accept"...just like the authors of this book and those who accept this heretical view point.

                  Do the research yourself, draw your own conclusion, and then as the Lord God says in Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together,.."

                  1 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK IS GARBAGE !.......2006-02-09

                  Either Jesus Christ, the Son Of God told us the Truth in Matthew 24:35 and that God's Word has been Perfectly Preserved in the Authorized Version (commonly called the King James Bible today) or he lied ... if this book is true then Jesus Christ lied!

                  4 out of 5 stars Another good one in the series by Ankerberg and Weldon.......2005-06-01

                  These authors are trustworthy guides. This is a very good book for the person who wants a good summary of the issues without having to spend a ton of time.
                  The simple truth is that ecclecticism is simply and obviously a much better method of determining what was originally written then just mechanically counting the manuscripts. For, manuscripts that are of different text types found in different locations and dated back to different times which agree are likely to be closer to what was originally written. It is simply impossible not to have to acknowledge the existence of text types. One can group manuscripts according to the types of errors which occur, the same variants at crucial passages and the same general pattern of development. That is simply a fact. There does exist this continuum. As a consequence, one cannot simply count manuscripts. For, it is clearly possible for manuscripts which have all of this in common (the same variant readings, the same types of errors...) to be genealogically related to each other and to have one source. In fact, it is likely to be the case. Whereas, a fewer number of manuscripts which are more diverse in terms of variant readings, types of errors, place, dating which agree are quite likely in their agreement to tell us what was originally written, and infinitely more so than numerous copies of the same text type.
                  This makes it impossible to adopt the KJV only position. For, the KJV readings do not emerge from ecclecticism.
                  This is not mention the fact that the Greek manuscript from which the KJV was translated (that is when it did not rely upon readings from Latin which are attested in no Greek manuscripts at all) all date from 1000 A.D.
                  The KJV has necessarily become less accurate as its language has become increasingly obsolete (see Rom 1:28 where homosexuality is "inconvenient" instead of a sin in the KJV).
                  Further, as a bilingual educator (and bilingual person), the argument that word for word translation is more accurate is simply ludicrous. It is very difficult to conceive of anybody who is truly bilingual to support the latter idea. Certainly, my grandfather, Dr. John Joseph Owens, who was fluent in 26 different languages and a professor of Hebrew for 40 years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville Kentucky did not hold to KJV only.
                  The beliefs of Westcott and Hort are simply not relevant to the discussion. The question is if their conclusions were largely correct according to the textual evidence. The answer to that question is clearly yes. Moreover, reformed scholars such as Warfield and Machen did not adopt the position of the superiority of the "textus receptus". Warfield and Machen are obviously unimpeachable. The byzantine text type is not the most ancient text type. It is replete with homoeoteleutons (e.g. one passage may refer to the scribes and the copyist may think in his mind "and the pharisees" (by his mind betraying him) and write down "and the pharisees" despite the fact that this phrase was not in the passage he was copying (rather it was in a parallel passage). When the overwhelming weight of textual evidence make it clear that "and the pharisees" was not there in the passage of the text copied and a parallel passage clearly does have both the scribes and the pharisees, then we can be sure that a homoeoteleuton occurred. This is obviously a secondary feature (similar to harmonization). As this occurs way more in the Byzantine texts than in any other text type, the Byzantine texts are clearly both less reliable and not as close to the original in time.
                  One will also notice that KJV only people add rules that the Bible does not have (ie. they are legalistic in the extreme).
                  Therefore, one is much better off outside of a church that promotes the KJV only doctrine.

                  4 out of 5 stars Wasn't going to write a review. . ........2005-03-05

                  . . .but reading the "Another Red Herring" made me do so. The reviewer above who states that new versions are "New Age Bible versions" etc. is basically parroting everything that Gail Riplinger said in her poorly researched and poorly documented book, _New Age Bible Versions_.

                  In Isa. 14:12 the Hebrew word there is "halel." The KJV translators got "Lucifer" *not* from the Hebrew OT, but from the Latin Vulgate which reads,
                  "Quomodo cecidisti de caelo lucifer qui mane oriebaris corruisti in terram qui vulnerabas gentes." (Vulgate)

                  So tell me, just because translators (not the KJV translators) were honest with the Hebrew word (*not title*) and translated it "O star of the morning, son of the dawn!" (NASB), how is that "evil"? The Hebrew word means "shining one, morning star" and not "lucifer." If of course you come to think that Isa. 14:12 speaks of Satan that is fine, but others believe it speaks of the King of Babylon.

                  Please, get your facts straight and stop listening to a "woman preacher" named Gail Riplinger.
                  1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

                  1 out of 5 stars "Another Red Herring".......2004-07-16

                  "the Facts on the KJV only debate". Is a seriously misleading title. When I bought this book, among others, to decide for myself on this debate and to get both sides of the issue, I have been thoroughly disheartened on my search. The debate is not about which greek text to use per se... and all their derivations, it is about why one should/should not trust most other Authors and their translations. The issue is over the translator's themselves, who they are, and the new/old greek Egytian text's unearthed in the desert, "Philo" ring a bell? This book completely avoids the debate and the Author deals, as all others, with the "Red Herring" of greek texts only, thereby devoiding the debate entirely.
                  The issue is the validity of the claims that Wescott and Hort are spiritualist, deviners, and into the accult. These facts are not addressed by any detractors of KJV only. Why not?
                  Another fact never addressed by this book is the, purposeful, change in Isaiah 14. Where Lucifer is correctly translated and then called "son of the morning. All New age bible versions take out Lucifers name and then refer to "HIM" as "the morning star". Problem: Jesus Christ is called the "morning star" in Revelations.
                  Why is this signifacant? Because Wescott and Hort were leaders in the nineteenth century accult revival and founders of the New Age Movement with Luciferian Helen Blatavsky. Why was Isaiah 14 changed to make Lucifer look like the messiah and savior? Because these New Age versions flow perfectly with Luciferian and Accult beliefs. As Satanist change their language to be more acceptable to everyone, they are openly using Christian terms to do so and go unquestion by most Christian leaders today.
                  Again I ask, where are the rebuttals to just a few of the thousands of arguments made by the KJV only believers and why do they believe that way? This book claims to answer the debate and the debate is not even mentioned nor is it in any other scholarly book you will find written.
                  To be fair to the scholars, if we believe Jesus' words, we are warned about the scholars and scribes. It takes the spiritual to understand the spiritual, for they cannot properly understand the debate, and wisdom cannot be gained from knowledge, so it makes sense that they have alot of knowledge yet little wisdom to discern that knowledge.
                  They cannot properly deal with the debate at hand because scripture itself states, "a little leaven spoils the whole loaf" I do not have to be a linguist to figure out, given the fact of who these translators ARE, that I am to have no association with them. " Can evil and holy have agreement" or
                  "can a bad tree bare good fruit" Remember the death of the fig tree.
                  So if you truely understand the KJV only side you will find no help in trying to hear the other side of the debate and you certainly won't get it from this book. All you'll get is some smooth talk that evades the issue entirely. You will do better to research Wescott and Hort, who all your new versions are based off of. Also, research Strongs concordances and the miriad of Lexicons out there so that you can discover for yourself who "Kittle" is, a nazi, and how his accult greek dictionary is the same one that translates all your greek words for you and you will be amazed and you will find no rebuttals or arguments on these issues because they are true. Then decide for yourself who you should trust.
                  I will quote Moody for you, he say's it best when writing about today's christians. "They are unaware that they are repeating the errors of the past because they do not understand Greek philosophy or Oriental mysticism, or nineteenth century theosophy ie... Luciferianism. They do not know how seriously they have been affected by such thinking (moody press, the agony of deceit 1990} This has infiltrated your bible, it is a fact and most scholars cannot adequately address this issue because the have not the wisdom to understand or discern it. Pray and fast on your journey and may the Lord Jesus Christ bless you with wisdom.

                  The Herring Gull's World: A Study of the Social Behaviour of Birds (New Naturalist (New York, N.Y.).)
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